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Rope - static v dynamic for top-roping and leading 30-Jan-2012 At 8:46:04 PM Dan Theman

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On 30/01/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 30/01/2012 Dan Theman wrote:
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>Yeah right, so what's Dave Mcleods advice on canyoning then?

he doesn't canyon as far as I know. this had nothing to do with canyoning. i was just doing what you do and picking at your post which I thought wasn't quite right.

>I like how you read something in a book yesterday, and its the advice you give out
>to everyone today.....no thinking involved, just parrot Dave Mcleod's opinion
>as if its your opinion.

no i would be doing that if i didn't put the ref at the end. It was advice I agreed with from
my experience with new climbers in bumbly loose fitting symmetrical shoes.

>Maybe if the best climber is right about everything,
>we should find out what Adam Ondra thinks?.....cause he's better than Dave
>Mcleod, so he must be even more right, right?

Maybe. Dave has a lot of experience coaching new climbers so I respect what he says
in this regard. Don't know if Adam has much coaching experience.

>I like Dave Mcleods advice on climbing, he's very sensible and generally
>I agree with the stuff he writes. On the matter of putting novices into
>painful, expensive banana-shoes so that they can trash them by dragging
>their toes up the wall (I'm yet to see a beginner who doesn't grind the
>tip off their first pair of shoes), I respectfully disagree.
>

I said well fitting (which means they don't hurt) performance shoes.

>You, I disrespectfully disagree with, cause you haven't shown any evidence
>of having put much thought into anything. You come across as a total shanker.

and your a troll who feeds off negative energy (aka negative energy vampire).