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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Is Climbing An Individual Sport?
- References: <1993Jan15.073816.27555@pdxsq1.nerco.com> <1993Jan15.162029.16986@mcnc.org> <1993Jan25.182105.26876@Cadence.COM>
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:47:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.224748.26074@nas.nasa.gov>
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- >>In article <1993Jan15.073816.27555@pdxsq1.nerco.com>
- ledererc@pdxsq1.nerco.com (Corey Lederer (6471) ) writes:
- >>>Is climbing an individual sport with you against yourself, or is it a team
- >>>sport with you and your partner in a tandem effort to help each other reach
- >>>the top?
-
- What about climbs which don't have "tops?"
-
- >In article <1993Jan15.162029.16986@mcnc.org> ekp@mcnc.org
- (Edward Pavelchek) writes:
- >>It depends. A day sport cragging is pretty much all for myself, and
- >>against my companions. An all day (or my only multi-day) climb is team
- >>all the way. Aint this normal?
-
- In article <1993Jan25.182105.26876@Cadence.COM> bruceg@Cadence.COM
- (Bruce Gustifson) writes:
- > To be competetive with your companions is understandable, but
- >I don't think it is preferable (at least for me). Then someone
- >has to "lose". If I want that, I'll play tennis or something. No
- >doubt some of you think this is because I must "lose" at climbing
- >alot to feel this way. This is not true. I just feel that the most
- >important thing for me in climbing is to have fun. Without that
- >I would stop doing it.
-
- I like this. Cuz' I'm not interested in the tennis or the
- something else. I think that's why a lot of us got into climbing,
- to get away from competition (nerds and geeks, and it has always been
- that way), and I think that a lot of the competition comes from the not quite
- there jocks who didn't quite make it in football, baseball, soccer,
- etc. team sports roaming around for other things to do. Life is
- competitive enough as it is. And I think that's why climbing is nerd/geek
- fun. You might have some competition. You only really "lose" when you die.
- If we did well in those sports, we would not have time for or be in
- climbing.
-
- Just watching the GBytes flow...
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