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lena_chita
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Apr 13, 2010, 5:43 PM
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Lots of kids sending super-hard these days. It is amazing what can be acomplished by an 8yold.
I wonder how tall he is? Hard to tell from the photos, but just by looking at the draws for comparison, I'd say that he looks about as tall as my 11yo, way-way taller than my 7yo.
I sure hope I will be around in ~20 years. I wonder what the top climbing grade would be by then?
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shockabuku
Apr 13, 2010, 7:32 PM
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It'll be interesting to see. I don't think it used to be that there was much data to compare this against. The young kids sending hard stuff now may (if they stick at it) just bump the top grades incrementally or they may really cause a huge shift.
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davidnn5
Apr 13, 2010, 9:06 PM
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lena_chita wrote: Lots of kids sending super-hard these days. It is amazing what can be acomplished by an 8yold. I wonder how tall he is? Hard to tell from the photos, but just by looking at the draws for comparison, I'd say that he looks about as tall as my 11yo, way-way taller than my 7yo. I sure hope I will be around in ~20 years. I wonder what the top climbing grade would be by then?
I was thinking about this yesterday - the moves that would be involved in moving the grades up substantially.
5.18 - a 76 metre completely horizontal roof (think Jumbo Love) all on mono holds.
5.20 - The climber actually has to downclimb a 76 metre past-horizontal roof (backwards, so the arms are on the lower part of the angle and the feet are on the higher part).
5.25 - climbers "campussing" 100m+ vertical routes upside-down using only their feet...
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cush
Apr 14, 2010, 1:39 PM
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there's going to be a cap at some point. at the level people like sharma are climbing at, not only is the peak of human physical abilities going to top out, simply the ability to even find more difficult routes is going to end somewhere.
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Grizvok
Apr 26, 2010, 12:40 AM
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cush wrote: there's going to be a cap at some point. at the level people like sharma are climbing at, not only is the peak of human physical abilities going to top out, simply the ability to even find more difficult routes is going to end somewhere.
Science will continue to progress climbing performance. Surely there will be a cap but I don't believe we've reached that point yet.
Bring on the roids!
(This post was edited by Grizvok on Apr 26, 2010, 12:40 AM)
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