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- From: tpm@ecs (TP Monks)
- Newsgroups: rec.climbing
- Subject: Macho quiz (for Laura)
- Message-ID: <13543@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:55:01 GMT
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- I guess that I'm exempt from Laura's recent complaint since I'm British,
- so here goes for a dumb macho survey barely disguised as science:
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- I've been climbing for almost 2 yrs now and have trained pretty hard,
- figuring that the more pull ups and wrist curls you can do, the harder
- you can climb. Since January however, my strength has hardly improved
- at all, but my climbing has got way better, leading me to consider the
- fact that maybe technique has something to do with it as well (what a
- radical idea!).
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- So, maybe pull-ups aren't everything. In order to check this *astonishing*
- premise it would be nice to check the pull-up to grade correlation.
- All you need to do is send me a message with all relevant info in the
- subject field. I'll post the results, from which you will be able to
- ascertain to no less than three decimal points exactly how your climbing
- grade will or will not increase by learning to do that one extra
- pull-up :->.
-
- Here's an American example:
- Subject: 5.10 #32
- And a British one:
- Subject: E3 #7
-
- Hey, this could be interesting! Perhaps all you tanned Californian muscled
- rock athletes in Lycra out there have a low grade/pull-up ratio from
- climbing all those steep never-ending cracks, whereas us English have a
- high one from climbing those stubby little stanage routes with sloping
- rounded breaks whilst wearing bobble hats!
-
- Flame on, I'm waiting!
-
- Tim
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