21 December 2014

Long term pyramid progress is the key

Everyone would like to climb one grade harder and the normal way is to stop climbing and start projecting, meaning optimising the beta and muscle recruitment for specific cruxes on a soft graded route. Can you really say you climb one grade harder just because you learnt how to robot climb a route that is about to get down graded? Would it not be more fun to and productive in the long run, to instead focusing on increasing that pyramide base before you start to build one more (grade) floor without a solid foundation. Focusing on just putting rocks on top of each other before the cement has hardened will create a pointy pyramid with cracks. Sooner or later it will break and you will fall and with the steep sides, you might keep sliding all the way to the ground. The picture shows James Webb very flat pyramid, suggestion that there are plenty room for more 8C's and also 8C+. In general, a solid top of the pyramid should multiple with at least 3.
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