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Have you ever...... 25-Nov-2004 At 1:43:55 PM SteveH

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Intentionally let go, or jumped off a climb (that you wouldn't have fallen off) to encourage or motivate a
friend or learner?

I've been thinking about times when taking people through their apprentiship days, and how much more it
meant to keep motivation and have a fun day than always be focused on numbers or 'keeping face'. I also
remember taking gym climbers, sport climbing for their first time and trying to explain that just cause we
climb the same 'grades' in the gym doesn't mean we will outside.

Experience is soooo much.

Tel pointed out Jerry Moffats quote:

" but I think ummm, certainly, in your mid -thirties, you can be stronger than you ever be because you
have a lot of experience. You know I see a lot of young climbers and I see they're stonger, but they don't
have the err, they don't apply it to the rock as well"

Mikl also wrote somewhere recently something along the lines:
that some of the best memories of climbing are days you just enjoyed, no hard routes, just good times.
Hard ticks can easily be forgotten.