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marc801
May 20, 2009, 9:25 PM
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desertwanderer81 wrote: The reason why it'll never catch on as an olympic sport is because A) the holds are entirely contrived and B) you could never do it on natural rock because the people who practiced on the specific climbs that were in the olympics would have a huge advantage. Although I guess that didn't stop them from making kayaking an olympic sport :p
http://ww.pennnet.com/...rse-pumping-station/
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desertwanderer81
May 20, 2009, 9:40 PM
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erma....that's what I was saying?
So thank you for repeating that, I guess. Heh.
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mturner
May 20, 2009, 9:50 PM
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desertwanderer81 wrote: erma....that's what I was saying? So thank you for repeating that, I guess. Heh.
What Olympic sport isn't totally contrived and manufactured?
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desertwanderer81
May 20, 2009, 10:22 PM
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mturner wrote: desertwanderer81 wrote: erma....that's what I was saying? So thank you for repeating that, I guess. Heh. What Olympic sport isn't totally contrived and manufactured?
Hockey is played in a rink.
Running can be done wherever and is a fairly consistant operation (at least from the layman's point of view).
Climbing is not done on a plywood wall with plastic holds.
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sungam
May 21, 2009, 6:10 AM
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mturner wrote: rainman0915 wrote: i love bouldering but i did some research on this and i found a list of recognized sports and the only one that on there that had to do with climbing was sport What the?! I'd like to see the list that recognizes this as a sport 
A real shitty, boring, and tedious sport - but hell, it got me colours.
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healyje
May 21, 2009, 6:36 AM
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Curling - the other ice and granite sport...slick stuff.
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sungam
May 21, 2009, 11:42 PM
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I laughed a little.
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Khoi
May 28, 2009, 8:48 PM
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ladyscarlett wrote: mturner wrote: I say they do it over the dive pool and call it Deep Water Soloing. Now THIS would be something to see!! I would think all you people excited about climbing in various states of undress would be all over this...and totally doable. As a past denizen of the dive pool, I will say that jumping off a platform IS different than jumping off a wall, but I'm sure some crazies can figure out a way. We could see the real meaning of 'falling gracefully.' Easily filmed, aesthetically appealing, with just enough adrenaline...great idea! I wonder if the Chinese would still dominate though... ls
Of course they would! Quite a few east Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) and southeast Asians (Vietnamese, Thai, Cambodians, Laotians, etc.) have killer strength-to-weight ratios!
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