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- From: eru@watson.ibm.com (Erich Ruetsche)
- Subject: Re: learning to lead
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:41:52 GMT
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- Reply-To: eru@titlis.zurich.ibm.com (Erich Ruetsche)
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- eugene miya writes:
- >F-T: you must be working with Liba Svobodova on fault tolerance. 8^)
-
- She is my manager (not fault tolerant) and I have to explain to her why I am working
- only part time to have more time for climbing ;-)!
-
- >Personally, I don't see a duration associated with the apprenticeship which
- >most leaders go thru. Gifted climbers will pass thru the above no sweat,
- >but I chuckled with nice climbing and good bolts coming last. I would hope
- >they got to that before bad pro climbing.
-
- You are right today. When we learned climbing the hard routes were in the alps,
- with bad runouts. We had to open all the hard routes ourself in our area.
- The newcomers have the nice advantage to find many good equipped climbing areas
- with lot of routes in all grades. Therefore they can make faster progress than we did
- a few years ago.
-
- >See I think that "may" is part of the issue. What do you suggest instead
- >of the progression (crawl before you walk ...climb)? Learning to lead
- >on the first day? Etc.
-
- Learning to lead on the first day is very important in my opinion. I try to do that
- in all the courses I give. The beginner never gets accostumed to the rope comming form
- above and never can build up a barrier against leading.
- Leading is a central point in climbing and must be trained from the beginning.
- I have a friend which missed that point. He is a excellent boulderer (in the top 20
- in Switzerland) but he never can show his abilities in leading a hard route because of
- a psychological barrier.
-
- Erich Ruetsche
- PS. I am looking for a postdoc position in the US for one year starting next summer,
- if possible close to a good climbing area.
- Interests: High Speed Communication, Protocols, Multimedia Communication, Parallelism
- in Communication
- (I probably can get founding from the Swiss National Found if I can present an interesting
- Project)
-
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