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Sport climbers - why don't you climb trad? 30-Jan-2013 At 9:45:12 AM macey

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I personally like to climb trad, sport and boulder problems, because I appreciate the individual qualities each of these genres has to offer. On the gym front, I regularly climb outdoors with noobs who've never really been on real rock and it's rather frustrating when they laugh and hang sh# t on me for feeling nervous on a grade 17-18 trad route because they've seen me top-rope grade 24's in the gym!! But when I say "Laugh away buddy, cos you're leading the next pitch" it's hilarious seeing them get all defensive and say "f#@k that sh#t!! I've never even placed a cam before!!!" Although at the same time, I'll take the same ppl to Nowra and they're immediately leading and taking falls off ring bolted grade 20's! Sport climbing is a much, much easier way to venture into the outdoors and is a natural progression from the gym whilst being cheap, generally straight forward and safer for the novice. I'm sure these ppl will lead trad one day down the track, but for now I can definitely see the attraction of sport routes for them.