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danabart
Apr 3, 2005, 6:05 PM
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Unwanted beta is like those situations in which you've done something really stupid and someone walks over, looks at the situation for a moment or two and says (as if the've just discovered penicillin or something), "say, that was really stupid!" Gee, I never would have known . . .
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iknowfear
Apr 3, 2005, 7:22 PM
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the Classics:
- cant reach that hold? Climb up to it then...
- you know, holds dont get better. (that one is actually helpfull sometimes when you cant commit to the next move
cheers,
sim
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curt
Apr 3, 2005, 7:28 PM
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I have always found....
"Don't fall..."
.....to be particularly unhelpful. :lol: I mean, duh.
Curt
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mingleefu
Apr 3, 2005, 7:30 PM
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What I can't figure out is why, when a person is asking for beta and you're telling them where the next hold is, and you say to look left, they always ALWAYS look right. Or if you tell them to step the right foot up, they always move the left foot.
"Step your left foot up about 6 inches. No, No! Your OTHER left foot!!"
it is the most bizarre phenomenon.
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corpse
Apr 3, 2005, 9:05 PM
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The worst beta, in terms of being useful beta as it pertains to climbing, has so far got to be....
"Did you know people die every year rock climbing?"
Of course, what made it even better, is that I was asked that during my FIRST lead :)
But it was from a hiker, so I didn't let it get to me...
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Apr 3, 2005, 9:06 PM
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"straighten out your bloomers and finish your pitch you f*cking sally."
if you need to ask...
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climberterp
Apr 4, 2005, 1:02 AM
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me, falls off problem "hmmmm, I can't figure out what I did wrong"
smart-ass friend replies: "you were supposed to hold on" :roll:
thank you obvious-man! :)
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angelaa
Apr 4, 2005, 8:07 PM
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While on the ground and spewing beta myself. . . :twisted:
I always follow it up with IN THEORY. . . . 8^)
what the he11 do I know I am not up there. . . . :?
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angelaa
Apr 4, 2005, 8:13 PM
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While on the ground and spewing beta myself. . . :twisted:
I always follow it up with IN THEORY. . . . 8^)
what the he11 do I know I am not up there. . . . :?
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all_that_is_rock
Apr 5, 2005, 12:33 AM
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I am told I give the worst gear beta ever. when I am giving a lead belay to my partner in the gunks he will ocasionally yell down to me "dude I cant find a damn placement" my responce is usually "eh.....just run it out".
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jdouble
Apr 5, 2005, 12:38 AM
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Belayer Say "what the hell are you doing up there?"
I Say "getting practice placing gear."
Belayer says "I think you need practice running it out."
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falling2fast
Apr 8, 2005, 3:34 PM
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Here is a winning piece of beta from a post here on rc.com requesting beta for Potrero Chico http://www.rockclimbing.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1057680#1057680
In reply to: This may not be the Beta you were expecting but it is very important. Here is what happens if you try to flush your toilet paper down the toilet instead of dropping it the trash can you will find next to nearly every mexican toilet. my friend here who for obvious reasons would not like his name mentioned did this in the home of a nice family with whom we were staying. after exhausting every other method of extraction of the wad of TP that was clogging the only toilet in their home he went the extra mile to be a good house guest and unplugged it by hand instead of leaving it for the unsuspecting and undeserving hosts who all know better than to put the TP in the bowl http://img.photobucket.com/...lok/handplunger2.jpg |
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saltamonte
Apr 8, 2005, 9:56 PM
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we climbed the wrong mountian based on bad beta 8 hours of hiking wasted
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In reply to: Here is a winning piece of beta from a post here on rc.com requesting beta for Potrero Chico http://www.rockclimbing.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1057680#1057680 In reply to: This may not be the Beta you were expecting but it is very important. Here is what happens if you try to flush your toilet paper down the toilet instead of dropping it the trash can you will find next to nearly every mexican toilet. my friend here who for obvious reasons would not like his name mentioned did this in the home of a nice family with whom we were staying. after exhausting every other method of extraction of the wad of TP that was clogging the only toilet in their home he went the extra mile to be a good house guest and unplugged it by hand instead of leaving it for the unsuspecting and undeserving hosts who all know better than to put the TP in the bowl http://img.photobucket.com/...lok/handplunger2.jpg |
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cam
Apr 9, 2005, 1:39 AM
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A few years back, my wife and I were eyeballing the bottom section of a trad route that seemed to only take pro the thickness of a sheet of paper folded in two. After some conferring and craneing of necks trying to find the first decently protectable feature this dope comes waltzing over, with ego in tow (we knew him from around the way) and proceeds to offer pantamimed beta clearly assuming we had no idea of how to even get off the ground.
We just stood there waiting for the hot air to pass and likely wore slightly peevish expressions. Then "Wind-Bag" decides that a direct demonstration is the order of the day and while stepping to the rock announces "Here, I'll show you. Its sooo easy." Two moves into his demo he stalls, head twiching in an attempt to find the sequence, throws some conniption-of-a-desperate-move and falls flat on his ass.
Mumbling something and looking quite red in the face, off he trots with tail between legs and slightly bruised ego. I look at my wife, who is desperatly trying to hold back tears of laughter, she looks at me, we both smile and shake our heads and return to the task at hand.
I never said anything about this event to him, nor he to me but I'll say it now...if you are reading this you know who you are...thanks for the useless beta but more importantly, thanks for having never sprayed at us since. I tell ya, some peoples kids :roll:
Mike.
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