Comments on: Chris Sharma Interview About Climbing First Round First Minute

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:21:14 +0000

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Adayak Blog » Blog Archive » Trail Talk: The Russian Avalanche One — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:31:09 +0000

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By: dcizzle

dcizzle — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:38:58 +0000

i dont even think its the fact that hes an idol that his ethics towards this whole fiasco bothers people. Its more the fact that he is portrayed in videos in such a noble light. So when we see him being like any other normal competitive male, its like hes being a hypocrite.

there is a certain type of pretentious personality that people (like myself) have, that loves to call out other people like vegetarians, or pastors who fail to live up to their own rhetoric. In this case sharma didn’t live up to the omnibenevolent person he is PORTRAYED as in videos. So people with this certain type of personality love to see him being exploited, because we feel we called the bull$hit from the beginning. and we did!

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:11:53 +0000

I think it is pretty interesting that people are talking about this so called rift with chris and nalle. Who cares its climbing lets get over it.

By: toothbrush

toothbrush — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:24:00 +0000

I’d suggest this blog from BigUP which pretty much ended the FRFM topic and any speculation whatsoever hithertoforth and thusly and all other old english terms I can make up….

http://www.bigupproductions.com/#/blog/1020/

By: ike

ike — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:48:52 +0000

Rift? What rift?

If you think Chris was so wrong for being honest with Nalle and asking him not to climb on his project with him and his buddies, do you also feel that it was wrong of Nalle to behave as if he was cool with this request and then ambiguously state on his blog that he was “not allowed” to climb on the line? This is not such a major issue as you seem to perceive it.

By: Steve Schultz

Steve Schultz — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:10:22 +0000

Never mind that the interview actually took place in early february. Interesting read nonetheless.

By: THC

THC — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:49:18 +0000

To quote Jimmy from South Park: “Come on. I mean, Come On!”.

If we are to enforce ethics to each other we would eventually become a church, and what has the the church been up to lately?

This whole issue just really isn’t so big of a deal at all and the “FRFM issue” hasn’t caused any rift in any common ideals between climbers IMHO. If that was the case, Don Whillans would have separated the continents!

I mean “Come On”…to ask for a delay is to steal the time?

Both of these guys have given more to us in the form of inspiration than what we could ask for.

Let’s allow our idols to be atleast slightly human also, huh?

By: toolittle

toolittle — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:09:39 +0000

It seems a little late to being doing damage control. I wish Chris the best but this climb has caused a rift in everything from ideals, to US vs Europe, to the way money is affecting this sport.

I do not wish his any ill will but I ask that since he is idolized by so many climbers, both young and old, that in the future he must understand that he teaches ethics to others through his actions. This lesson was not his best and he should admit that.

Thanks for the interview.