15 December 2012

Grahams 2005 video - The Story of Two Worlds

Dave Graham opend The Story of Two Worlds in Cresciano as an 8C in 2005 as a statement towards grade inflation which made it stop. It is a perfect sit start also for the shortest guys that traverses out in a spectacular roof. In March, Dai Koyamada made his second ascent of it adding a start with one hand lower compared to the original start going feet first saying, "I decided to start with a more natural and harder position,". The Frontier has just released the Video from 2005 which in comparison to the Koyamada video show that Koyamda's "Low" start is actually quicker and less complicated which makes it hard to understand why he called it "... Low", 8C+. After seven moves they are in the same position which took Koyamada 20 sec from the "Low" meanwile Graham used 27 sec from the original sit start.
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