tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14697721.post4842865042682101012..comments2023-09-11T02:19:35.098-07:00Comments on Gravsports: Showing up, getting up.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14697721.post-79249367577944309742009-03-25T15:07:00.000-07:002009-03-25T15:07:00.000-07:00Hey couz! Nice blog. Even nicer because I was abou...Hey couz! <BR/>Nice blog. Even nicer because I was about to be lazy and skip the gym today, but nahhh, I'll be lazy another day. OFF to the GYM<BR/><BR/>P.S. miss you. Hopefully I'll get to see you sometime soon? I saw that you are doing a "maryland show" which got me all excited.. but I see now that it is in Boston? BOoo<BR/><BR/>Love you,<BR/>DanielleDaniellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12640901680786485672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14697721.post-25860938565245523022009-03-12T10:42:00.000-07:002009-03-12T10:42:00.000-07:00Wg, Why does it happen, most of the time, climbers...Wg, Why does it happen, most of the time, climbers flake out and say "climbing is just for fun"?<BR/>For some it is, but for those of us who have the unfortunate part of being a climber first and all the other life stuff second, it's a lame response.<BR/>We should care, we should fight "words and actions" for what we believe is the correct thing. The Democrats and Republicans have differing ideologies - they yell, scream, toss some f-bombs at each other, because they feel their way is the best. The great thing about climbing is that the big picture pretty much dictates the little one's. Traditions are set and most often followed - methods evovle and become traditions.<BR/><BR/>Look at the heel spur thing you were a huge part of, in bringing down their usage and method and being non-traditional. It meant a huge deal to you and many others that were claiming ascents with huge things off their heels that they could hang out on for hours!<BR/>If they had actually trained and followed the traditions in climbing they would have either been able to climb the route or not. Physical or mental, just no artificial aids. <BR/>I still think knee bar rubber pads are AID and if you can't use your knee as is, then don't use the knee bar, pull through. Alex huber did this at the knee-bar intensive "jailhouse" crag of SoCal and he sent all sans-knee bars. Climbers like people look for shortcuts, just like politicians and business people, when it comes to the front like with Madoff or George W. it justs let's the informed know that they cheated and required that to excell - rather than actually putting in the true efforts and having success or failure - but either is respectful if it was an honest trained effort.<BR/><BR/>For all those who are fat, out of shape, less talented, less time, hindered, or simply not strong, but get out and giver-liver, then full power to them, more so than the "professional" who needs aids to get ahead rather than simple training to make the next stage. <BR/><BR/>In today's world on sport style climbs/routes/mountains, if you need aid, it ain't an ascent - there is always some other climber who could do it without aid, so it should be aid free to be a true ascent.<BR/><BR/>just can't resist! leblankJD LeBlanchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08112080456767363929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14697721.post-29819242885018930992009-03-12T09:15:00.000-07:002009-03-12T09:15:00.000-07:00It is about having fun.. that is all it is..thanks...It is about having fun.. that is all it is..<BR/>thanks for not slagging fat people because other "climbers" do on their blogs..<BR/>Not coolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14697721.post-1838675580796782932009-03-12T08:36:00.000-07:002009-03-12T08:36:00.000-07:00Ya Boy,Ya Boy,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14697721.post-53903247413914199782009-03-11T21:43:00.000-07:002009-03-11T21:43:00.000-07:00Couch Ornament! I haven't heard that one yet, but ...Couch Ornament! I haven't heard that one yet, but I love it.<BR/><BR/>I often receive the impression, that the Doctor’s idealized human, stemming from all the products of medicine, science, and engineering, is a nearly blind (but still capable of keen sight by means of ingenious lenses), grossly obese, intensely flatulent, diabetic (producing copious amounts of honey-sweet urine, but thriving nonetheless by means of a high-fructose corn syrup diet and pig insulin), multiply handicapped, weak-hearted, and utterly invalid man; this man lies in an unbelievably comfortable chair (the whole day long) while he attends to his favorite programs as they punctually appear on his newest boob-tube, while heeding no concern at all for the various physical exertions that supposedly shaped and molded the human body which he so ungraciously owns.<BR/><BR/>The Wall-E chair is the illustration of this impression:<BR/><A HREF="http://cyclopsembryo.home.comcast.net/~cyclopsembryo/PG/22Feb2009/WallEChair.jpg" REL="nofollow">Wall-E Chair</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://cyclopsembryo.home.comcast.net/~cyclopsembryo/PG/22Feb2009/WallEChair2.jpg" REL="nofollow">Wall-E Chair 2</A><BR/><BR/>But I might controvert myself, since I highly value the mental and physical demands of paragliding, yet a pod harness closely imitates this Wall-E chair too!<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://cyclopsembryo.home.comcast.net/~cyclopsembryo/PG/22Feb2009/MRHarness.jpg" REL="nofollow">PG Harness</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com