Comments on: Chris Sharma Esperanza (V14) Video On MVM

By: Narc

Narc — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:11:23 +0000

I like it. Please continue your stand against Southeast bouldering group downgrading as well!

By: peter

peter — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:36:24 +0000

Made my day, tissue. thanks.

By: tissue

tissue — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:01:04 +0000

i asked jens for graphs with logbooks so i could make my moral stand against 8a’s climber neutering project. but alas he lol’d at me. he said his “webmaster make hard work not for me for make grading science big top 5 world leader in popular rockclimbing hits”. in other words, jens wasn’t concerned about my request because i wasn’t even in the north american top 100. in response, i sent him a detailed training outlook for 2009 and promised i’d “make real big top 5 hot climbing action” if he’d offer me some added functionality without the ranking (which would be sooooooooooo $@!*@$#*$ easy).

he said no.

i heart him.

By: Ryan J

Ryan J — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:48:42 +0000

fly to Chatt on a good weather weekend and you will get your skin climbed off! bringit

By: steven

steven — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:11:31 +0000

sockhands,

atl is the nearest big airport and I’d be more than happy to show you around boatrock & rocktown….I’d need to pass you off to someone who knows the stuff up around chatt a bit better though

By: sock hands

sock hands — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:54:05 +0000

i likes me some vee sevens um hmmm

and sum biscuits and mustard um hmmm

what’s the nearest airport?

who wants to pick me up late on a friday and be ready to cater to my ever climbing whim until taking me back to the airport on sunday?

LINE UP!

By: Ryan J

Ryan J — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:23:32 +0000

good thoughts yo. i briefly changed to log-book but missed the neat little graphs at the top. if those came with log-book, i would be psyched!

as for v7′s, come down to Chatt, EVERYTHING is v7!!

By: sock hands

sock hands — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:24:17 +0000

OR, no points for anything and have the top 100 list be for the most visited spraysheets, but expand the side bar to cover down to v5 FAs and down to v7 [!] repeats for all genders [male, female, and salo], with the 25 or more most recent sends rather than just a handful.

folks could still kinda spray by logging sends, but it would take the competition out of the hands of the individual… one’s friends/peers would keep them on the top 100 list by visiting their page. perhaps even have it so that only unique visits per day are computed so no one gets super ridiculous american idol and logs into their own page a million times. this would keep the most relevant climbers on the easily accessed list and the rest still searchable. nothing lost but the competitive aspects of the site. if you climb v15 but no one cares about you, presumably because you are a POS bastard, then you will not be able to be on the list, since a climber’s only importance to the community should be relative to how supportive and instrumental of a role that climber plays in the community… not based on sends alone.

for instance, those heart of stone guys are inherently more important to the american climbing scene than, say, v16 climber roland thompson

regardless, the informative and beta-share elements of the site would be retained despite this conversion.

the king of the intardweb hath spoken.

By: Ryan J

Ryan J — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:56:50 +0000

Maybe 50 extra points for an FA instead of 10? Something to think about. In some ways, an FA is even more difficult than an onsight, so maybe 200 extra points?

By: Schyler

Schyler — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:09:08 +0000

i hate 8a.nu for the reason of it promotes number chasing. it makes climbing outside like climbing in the gym where everyone brags about the hardest thing they just did. basically gyms are for training nothing more and in my opinion FA’s are 5 times more important than repeats.