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g-funk
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Jan 8, 2004, 5:10 AM
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Just to let you all know. I'm totally serious about my last post. I really have a -130 mm ape index.
I always knew I had short arms, but leave it to rc.com to give me a complex about it.
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fasdy
Jan 8, 2004, 5:51 AM
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Ever break your arm, pull a tendon, dislocate your shoulder, or bash your elbow too hard? Or maybe you just have tightly-socketed tendons/muscles.
Or maybe you're a little tea pot? :) :lol:
Both of mine go flat on the table, heh. Oh and stirfry = good.
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coldclimb
Jan 8, 2004, 6:49 AM
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In reply to: Yeah, I think I'm a 1/1 person. But I'm still strange because I can't straighten my arms out all the way. If put my tricep down on a table I can't put the rest of my arm on the table...maybe a picture would help: That's as far down as I can put my hand. Try it, I'll bet you can put the back of your hand on your desk. I'm pointing my hand down, trying to touch the table with my pinky finger. I just don't unfold :D. Notice how the picture was taken while composing this post. Notice the stirfry that it looks like I'm putting my hand in and the crap everywhere. Sorry about the quality of the pic, it was taken with a camera phone. :lol:
hehe, one of my friends was showing me today how she can bend her knees and elbows way past straight. It's very odd looking. ;) I can go a tiny bit further than straight, but not enough to notice.
My ape index is 2.5 inches.
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fuzzymonkey
Jan 8, 2004, 7:02 PM
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In reply to: Ever break your arm, pull a tendon, dislocate your shoulder, or bash your elbow too hard? Or maybe you just have tightly-socketed tendons/muscles. Or maybe you're a little tea pot? :) :lol: Both of mine go flat on the table, heh. Oh and stirfry = good.
Nope
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Nope.
I always forget to ask a Dr. when I'm in the office. it's just a weard trate. When I straighten it out it's a solid stop, not a stretch, so maybe the bones are just tight. All of my immediate family can straighten their arms out so it's not genetic.
Ahh, what am I going to do, I can never be the next Chris Sharma :cry:
LOL, anyway, thanks for the input :D and the stirfry was good.
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wideguy
Jan 14, 2004, 1:13 AM
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Screw all that metric stuff! I'm 71.75" tall and 74" span. +2" ape.
is that good average or what?
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coldclimb
Jan 14, 2004, 1:21 AM
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mine's 2.5. I dunno how that compares to the rest of the world, but I've got two friends (brothers) with -1 each, and another friend with 3.5.
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ginerbiner
Jan 14, 2004, 1:31 AM
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I've a -1" ape index span. I'm just a little package all over.
I know this guy who has a +6" ape index span and he's 6'4" tall. Amazed me so that I couldn't keep my hands off him :wink:
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moabbeth
Jan 14, 2004, 1:54 AM
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In reply to: I know this guy who has a +6" ape index span and he's 6'4" tall. Amazed me so that I couldn't keep my hands off him :wink:
DuhhAM! Wow, that guy's got it going!!
I know of a guy who while only 5'6" has a +8" ape index. Seriously. I think I have a pic of him climbing out at RR, amazing to watch the reach that guy has (Kel you know him - ML!).
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rokklym
Jan 14, 2004, 2:14 AM
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This got me interested, I'm 68 inches tall with an armspan of 73. +5, thats not too bad eh? Too bad I'm a wimp and can't do nothing with it.
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peas
Jan 14, 2004, 2:34 AM
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From some of the friends I've measured and from a few of the posts here, it seems as though women often have a smaller ape index than men. Anybody else care to comment on that?
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trapdoor
Jan 14, 2004, 4:26 AM
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I concur. My girlfriend's is smaller than mine. That's her "excuse" for not climbing so much. Some kind of inferiority thing.
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teddy
Jan 14, 2004, 5:15 AM
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I'm still growing but i had the impression that you were meant to grow to have arms the same length as your body (or within 1") so also put your age down because i think teenagers would be more varied than adults... and climbers with a larger ape index than non-climbers
I am 5'11" with a 6'3" arm span, ive grown a bit lately but i think my arms have too so im about +4" or 10cm and 16 years old... -13cm is really strange g-funk, any genetic things or is it just short arms?
Hehe i dont have hyperextendable elbows but im the only person i know who can put their feet backwards :P (like facing opposite way to me), legs behind head, knees forward feet sideways etc. anyone else have any of those strange body quirks/flexibility feats to go with the massive ape index climbers seem to have?
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kimch
Jan 14, 2004, 11:17 AM
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i dont care what u people say... IM AN APE NO DOUBT BOUT DAT!! 8)
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the_alpine
Jan 14, 2004, 6:01 PM
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You DIVIDE for the index.
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eyeinthesky
Jan 21, 2004, 6:57 AM
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My guess by this thread is that ch'all are red-assed baboons.
See, there's a difference. Myself, I'm a monkey. I've earned my fur the hard way and got a little gorilla steez to boot!
Being an ape has nothing to do with yer body parts. It's what you do with em!! And it's in yer head. But mostly, it;s havin an untamable animal instinct to swing and jump off of things, and to make people laugh at said antics or pissed that you break everything doin it.
Yer friend (until you come too close) --
Monkey
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gogo
Jul 26, 2005, 4:50 AM
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I'm 5'7" with a 6'3" reach. . .
Ape index of +8 or 1.11.
I like reachy problems.
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lodi5onu
Jun 30, 2009, 3:43 PM
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My "wingspan" is about 1" shorter than my height...It doesn't seem to affect my climbing.
I would say that an equal or slightly negative ape index is a pretty normal occurance.
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jt512
Jun 30, 2009, 3:53 PM
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lodi5onu wrote: My "wingspan" is about 1" shorter than my height...It doesn't seem to affect my climbing. I would say that an equal or slightly negative ape index is a pretty normal occurance.
Thanks for reviving a stupid four-year-old thread to state that.
Jay
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lodi5onu
Jun 30, 2009, 3:58 PM
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weird, i thought for SURE i was on your killfile
i'm slightly honored
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bill413
Jun 30, 2009, 4:47 PM
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jt512 wrote: Thanks for reviving a stupid four-year-old thread to state that.
I thought the title looked familiar.
lodi5onu wrote: My "wingspan" is about 1" shorter than my height...It doesn't seem to affect my climbing. I would say that an equal or slightly negative ape index is a pretty normal occurance. 
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lodi5onu
Jun 30, 2009, 6:56 PM
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No, not just because it's me. DaVinci agrees with me too.
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