Life On Hold Clip: The Young

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17 Responses to Life On Hold Clip: The Young

  1. moremonkeythanfunky October 9, 2012 at 6:35 pm #

    maybe this is a stupid question, but instead of smashing your spnal disks to mush, why not just set up a top-rope?

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    • Phunk October 9, 2012 at 6:40 pm #

      Because they’re not top-roping, they’re boldering,

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      • moremonkeythanfunky October 10, 2012 at 8:25 am #

        that kind of works. but then why use crash pads?

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        • boss260 October 10, 2012 at 10:55 am #

          Because the british are not indestructible like we are.

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    • DK October 10, 2012 at 4:08 pm #

      It seems pretty obvious that top-roping does not offer the same experience as climbing a tall boulder problem in a ground-up style.

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      • anotherclimber October 10, 2012 at 7:28 pm #

        perhaps free solo/high balls arent for me but id much prefer to wire beta on a tr before taking 20ft falls repeatedly on something i cant reasonably onsight. while there is a difference in ground up and other methods id rather not unexpectedly cut my climbing or life short for something rather trivial.

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  2. firstsender October 10, 2012 at 3:14 pm #

    Good inquiries. At what point does bouldering become “climbing.” The purpose of a crash-pad is to prevent injury. The purpose of a top-rope is to prevent injury. The purpose of a pad is not to define the act of “bouldering.” This dope is taking repeated 20+ foot falls. Not to sound like a p###y, but my dad had a slipped verterbrae, it wasn’t a pretty sight.

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    • DK October 10, 2012 at 4:05 pm #

      If you don’t think it’s worth it, then don’t do it.

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      • gozfree October 10, 2012 at 8:07 pm #

        i like how Bachar used to put it. if you can free it, then free it, otherwise put on a rope. tragically ironic, actually.

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  3. DWK October 10, 2012 at 5:40 pm #

    The purpose of climbing is not to prove you have strong fingers. It’s to confront something inside yourself, which is hard to do on toprope.

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  4. Narc October 10, 2012 at 9:10 pm #

    Like my dad always said, “Why are you wasting so much time and energy climbing a rock when you could put a ladder up or just walk around to the other side”

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  5. dd October 11, 2012 at 4:21 am #

    did you honestly not see the shot of them top roping it at the beginning of this video?!?!

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    • pipo October 11, 2012 at 12:21 pm #

      seems to be cleaning the boulder, not toproping the moves on it.

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    • joeyjoejoe October 11, 2012 at 12:48 pm #

      Yeah. They’re cleaning the line. Brush brush brush.

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  6. ronnance October 19, 2012 at 6:26 pm #

    This vid captures the feel and vibe of highball bouldering better than any I’ve ever seen. I love the comments of the climbers and spotters. Hells yeah! Getcha some my crazy-ass Brit Bros. What a sick line! =)

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  7. ronnance October 19, 2012 at 6:33 pm #

    As to the question of why not headpoint it or hang a TR, I would say Hillary and Mallory answered that years ago: “because it’s there” and “for the hell of it”.

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  8. LanceKillkenny October 19, 2012 at 11:10 pm #

    been climbing climbing for well over 20 years. I’ve always used the following rule on boulders: if i get stuck on a move on anything over about 15 feet, I will give myself three big falls, after that the tr goes up, or I find a crack to put in some pro. as I am now in my forties, bouldering has gotten more difficult. It seems I need an extra pad on which to fall, for each year over forty.

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