15 December 2014

Boulder deflation reaches 8B+, let us go for 8C+!

During the last month, the yearly percentage of 8B+ and 8C recorded ascents are 4 % which can be compared to 18 % 8A+ and below and it has been like this the whole autumn. It seems that the top guys are lately more interested in doing multiple "easier" boulders compared to repeating the hardest ones, out of which most have already been downgraded. It might also be that the grade deflation on the very top has also spread to 8B+, meaning some of them have become 8B. The logic for this is of course that, as it seems the boulderscale has stopped at 8C, less harder boulders are put further down in the grading scale. At the same time, the number of 8Aboulder guys and ascents are just increasing rapidly meaning that possibly the future 8B grade will be where everyone ends up, more or less. David Graham, are you listening, the community needs your voice again in the same way as you put up The Story of Two (grading) World's as an 8C, in 2005, in order to stop the previous grade inflation. Please, get your crew and put together some 8C+ upgrading suggestions :)
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