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General Climbing Discussion

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Sport climbers - why don't you climb trad? 29-Jan-2013 At 1:15:57 PM Climboholic
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On 28/01/2013 wogdog wrote:
>Climbing sport tends to overinflate your ego so returning to trad after
>years of sport generally means you need to significantly drop your grades
>or do the odd crack climb, which tends to crap on your ego a little and
>bring you back down to earth. At least thats been my experience.

Well put!

See Macca, some sport climbers are happy to answer honestly.

I for one know, that when I climb sport it quickly becomes about a sense of achievement through conquest instead of enjoying the experience of climbing. They are two very distinct forms of satisfaction, hence the apparent divide in the community.

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