On 6/12/2009 The good Dr wrote:
>Don't look for excuses in the rubber as these days it is all pretty damn
>good. You should be looking at poor foot work instead. Remember, many very
>difficult granite routes were established in first generation.......
EBs and Asolo Canyons, and Rene Demaisons, and other inline skating boots.
There haven’t been many hard face climbs in the last 30 years that were thin.
Stickiness and good edging are conflicting abilities, boot construction affects the rubbers ability to do one of these (stiff for edging, soft for smearing) and the user is more important again.
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