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Dry Tooling on 100' Slab - Narrowneck 26-Mar-2012 At 1:07:19 PM Dave J

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There was a doco at the Melbourne Film Festival a couple of years back called "Too much pussy". I didn't see it at the time, but I'm wondering now if it was, in fact, a doco about the last 2 decades of Australian climbing.

On 25/03/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>I have a suggestion, maybe this is an early manifestation of 3rd generation
>pussyness? Let me explain;
>
>It's my understanding that the climbers of the 60's and 70's were hard
>as nails and heaped shit on pussies. The pussies were sub-men, and had
>no right to develop any routes, or bone any of the chicks, or talk back.
>
>By the 80's, a lot of these hardmen were still doing scary stuff, but
>also putting up difficult routes which were quite pussy. They continued
>to keep the pussies in their place though. Meanwhile, a bunch of young
>climbers learned to climb on hardman routes, but......
>
>By the 90's, the leading climbers (who had learned to climb on scary routes)
>then started putting up routes of their own, whilst often transferring
>the pussy ethic of difficult routes down to moderate routes.........I really
>see this crew (Widewetandslippery and his mates) as first generation pussies,
>but at least they had respect for the notion of not being a pussy. Meanwhile,
>a bunch of young climbers learned to climb only on bolts.
>
>By the 00's, the leading climbers had barely placed natural gear at all.
>Their mentors and idols were pussies, and the notion of not being a pussy
>was becoming quite foreign. Old, classic routes were totally forgotten
>unless they were fairly pussy. 2nd gen pussies had arrived. Meanwhile a
>bunch of young climbers learned how to climb without ever being presented
>with the concept of climbing as a hardman activity.
>
>Now, these 3rd gen pussies have started buying drills. When they look
>around to try and see how to put their Ozito to use, all they see is 2nd
>gen pussies drilling the shit out of every bit of rock in sight. If there's
>an old, forgotten route which barely gets any ascents, and has something
>called 'natural gear'?? involved, surely no one will mind if it gets modernised?
>
>The funny thing is, when you find this bloke and tell him he's a pussy,
>he probably won't even understand what you're talking about