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miademus
Mar 29, 2007, 1:07 PM
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i've tsarted climbing a year ago but left it very soon, i've startteed climbing about 6month ago and don't train regular work on v6/7...
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poomasta
Mar 29, 2007, 2:16 PM
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munky wrote: I've been climbing 1 week and just climbed a v14. Seriously bud, who gives a flying shit! A grade is not reflective on how you are progressing in climbing. Climbing is not about competition with a winner and loser and a best! Its about great experiences. What grade you tick is a very small part of how you are progressing. What is a better guage is how many different types of styles of climbing you can become proficient in (crack, slab, roofs, vertical, slopers, crimps, nubbin pinching, bouldering, trad, sport, alpine, soloing, etc.) If you are a beginner just go out there and have fun.
this crap ticks me off. a guy asks a simple question, wanting to gauge his own progress relative to others, and he gets a barrage of pissed off climbers who shred him for climbing for the wrong reasons. who are you to say why someone should pursue climbing? climb for your own reasons, but enough with the proselytizing. answer the question or go start ur own thread about how YOU have determined the only legitimate reason we all should climb.
to the OP:
been climbing about 3 years, just got into bouldering in the past year, and usually do problems in the v4/5 range.
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diophantus
Mar 29, 2007, 2:57 PM
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cmacblue42 wrote: ...Another thing, my gym rates significantly harder than other gyms, so in most other gyms, add 1 grade to the above mentioned (i have confirmed this myself and also based on an overwhelming consensus of local climbers).
bwahahahaha, that's the funniest stuff I've read all morning.
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diophantus
Mar 29, 2007, 3:05 PM
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munky wrote: I've been climbing 1 week and just climbed a v14. Seriously bud, who gives a flying shit!
Sponsors?
munky wrote: A grade is not reflective on how you are progressing in climbing.
Hahahahaha
munky wrote: Climbing is not about competition with a winner and loser and a best!
Except for climbing competitions.
munky wrote: Its about great experiences. What grade you tick is a very small part of how you are progressing. What is a better guage is how many different types of styles of climbing you can become proficient in (crack, slab, roofs, vertical, slopers, crimps, nubbin pinching, bouldering, trad, sport, alpine, soloing, etc.)
So someone who only boulders but climbs v13 hasn't progressed very much?
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munky
Mar 29, 2007, 3:22 PM
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[So someone who only boulders but climbs v13 hasn't progressed very much?]
No, I'm not saying that. But the point is for a beginner to not worry about how hard they climb but to sample and see other types of climbing. If you are bouldering V13 more than likely you've been exposed to other forms of climbing and have decided to specialize in bouldering.
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munky
Mar 29, 2007, 3:53 PM
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[this crap ticks me off. a guy asks a simple question, wanting to gauge his own progress relative to others, and he gets a barrage of pissed off climbers who shred him for climbing for the wrong reasons. who are you to say why someone should pursue climbing? climb for your own reasons, but enough with the proselytizing. answer the question or go start ur own thread about how YOU have determined the only legitimate reason we all should climb.]
I'm sorry you got so ticked off. Can I get you a tissue to dry your crying eyes. Its called a forum and a thread for a reason: So each individual can respond according to how they see fit with regards to the question. I responded as I would have if someone had asked that to me in person. I hope the author of the question will realize from my response that there is much more to climbing than how hard you climb. And that the better climber or more advanced climber isn't necessarily the one who can climb a harder boulder problem or a harder sport route but who is generally well schooled at various styles and types of climbing.
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poomasta
Mar 29, 2007, 5:00 PM
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munky wrote: I'm sorry you got so ticked off. Can I get you a tissue to dry your crying eyes. Its called a forum and a thread for a reason: So each individual can respond according to how they see fit with regards to the question. I responded as I would have if someone had asked that to me in person. I hope the author of the question will realize from my response that there is much more to climbing than how hard you climb. And that the better climber or more advanced climber isn't necessarily the one who can climb a harder boulder problem or a harder sport route but who is generally well schooled at various styles and types of climbing.
Yes it is a forum...where people ask questions and you apparently provide them with a snide reply that doesn't address their inquiry in the least. He didn't ask your opinion on why he should be climbing or ask for your silly definition of what an "advanced" climber is... (I think you meant "all-arounder" or "generalist" maybe). Anyway, you seem hung up on getting others to accept your reason for climbing so passionately that you use it as a response to questions not asked! That's, umm, weird man...
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alpinerock
Mar 29, 2007, 5:35 PM
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Okay i'll post up, unlike a lot of people here i like grades. Thats right I like numbers, they help me gauge my progress and help me justify my often times overwhelming ego. Having said that I've learned not to put too much emphasis on a particular grade, I've sent V9's that i swear are harder than any V13 I've been on (think duct tape and gerbils in LCC..) and i've sent V11's that i though were maybe V9 at best (think anything from Donner Summit). To answer your question I've sent V12 (outside, i've never had a gym pass, as a matter of fact i always send harder outside than indoors) and I've almost been climbing for four years now.
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chainsaw
Mar 29, 2007, 7:46 PM
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What V12 have you done Alpinerock?
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alpinerock
Mar 29, 2007, 8:12 PM
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I guess its not univerisally accepted as V12 but Pro-series in LCC, I know mike beck considers it a V11 but everyone else i've talked to calls it 12. When i asked dave graham about its grade he said new school V12 or old V11. I don't trust my judgment enough to say what its really graded.
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ninja_climber
Apr 4, 2007, 7:43 PM
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I've been climbing for 2 years and I boulder about V8/V9...unfortunately I still can't get past 5.12a/b...
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esqueleto
Apr 11, 2007, 5:12 PM
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been climbing for about 3 weeks or so and loving the crimps. dependant on the problem i can get v2-v3 pretty easily, but sloppers fuck me up and cracks just feel wierd. soon though it'll all feel right.
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uhoh
Apr 12, 2007, 12:00 PM
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I've been climbing and bouldering for only a few months. I can do V1, probably 1+. V2s seem outside my range but I'm sure I can get them with a little practice.
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alwaysclimbing07
Apr 12, 2007, 2:00 PM
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ive been climbing for a little over a year and a half now, and climb hard 5.12's, and i just got back from hueco a few days ago, and while i was there i sent king cobra(v6) in about 30 muinets, if that helps any. ive pulled harder indoors, but who hasn't.
(This post was edited by alwaysclimbing07 on Apr 12, 2007, 2:01 PM)
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fearlessclimber
Apr 13, 2007, 5:17 AM
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solid V6 baby, im workin on getting to 10s by the end of this summer. I sport much harder though
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gilles
Apr 19, 2007, 4:37 AM
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I started climbing 1 month ago, and I found a new route in some place where I can't tell you and chris sharma and david graham and i, sent a problem rated at V18.5, so says David. took me a couple tries but i made it.
Who gives a shit! Blah blah blah
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trenchdigger
Apr 19, 2007, 4:55 AM
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I thought the scale topped out at Grade 7?
I've been climbing a little over 4 years and attempted my first Grade 4 in January - the Sun Ribbon Arete on Temple Crag. I guess it wasn't the brightest idea to try to do it car-to-car in a day in the middle of winter. Next time we'll cruise it...
Recommended reading: Reinhold Messner's "The Seventh Grade"
And no, it's not about his experiences in Junior High School.
edit: Oh wait, how did I end up in the bouldering forum? 
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billgoat
Apr 20, 2007, 4:22 PM
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I'm still trying to figure out the grading of bouldering I do it and love it just as much as climbing and I'm aver. maybe above but whats the diff. between v4 n a v8 huh I do some pretty hard stuff w/ a few tries easy ones right away so how do you grade
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MONKEY5
Aug 18, 2007, 3:50 AM
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i climb like 1400s so like v-0 v-1 ive been bouldering about a week i guess in the gym.
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Vinny_A
Aug 18, 2007, 3:26 PM
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Ive been bouldering for about a week and I can get 450-500s at the gym so I guess thats about a V4-V5.... I think
And I've never done anything above a 5.9 top roping
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quiteatingmysteak
Aug 18, 2007, 4:52 PM
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solo1220 wrote: In a effort to gauge my own progress, i was just curious how long you guys have been bouldering and what grade you're on.
Progress is climbing is not a reward of numbers, its the reward of accomplishment and adventure. Many of the 'top' climbers today recount their most triumphant feats not as the ones that are the 'hardest' numerically, but what was the hardest to earn. There are 5.13 climbers out there that couldn't fight their way up a 5.10 veadawoo offwidth, v10 boulderers that couldn't follow an A2 pitch, and comp-killers who, after 3 years in the circuit, decide that 'climbing' as they see it is no longer rewarding.
If you climb for numbers, something will always replace it. If you climb for the love of the experience, for the drive of pushing yourself, and the accomplishment of knowing that you did something that, a year ago, would seem impossible, than you have something that will last a lifetime.
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thomasribiere
Aug 18, 2007, 9:50 PM
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I've been climbing for 10 yrs and don't boulder harder than V2.
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spyder14
Aug 20, 2007, 3:03 AM
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ive been climbing for 2 years and i climb 5.9 sport, and i boulder at v2+
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mr8615
Aug 20, 2007, 12:48 PM
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I hear if you remove some ribs, you can suck your own... oh wait, what was the question?
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