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Post by huntermiles on Jul 27, 2021 15:54:23 GMT -7
In my gym we have only 25 foot walls to climb. From what I’ve researched, I don’t have experience climbing in other gyms or outdoors to compare for myself, a route is graded on its overall difficulty meaning a short 5.11 will have harder moves than a taller 5.11. I am just curious if this is the case because if it is than it would be much harder to arc on a short 5.10 than a longer one because you will be doing more 5.10s in total and it will be more hard moves per minute on the wall. Also if this is the case what would the comparison be? What grade would say 3 25 foot 5.10s be. Or a 75 foot route with 3 sections of 5.10 with no rest.
I’ll also try not to get too caught up in grades, especially for arc. I mostly use all routes in the autobelay and just use varying holds to achieve the right level of pump. This info would just be helpful to gauge the difficulty of my gym compared to taller routes.
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Post by cozisco on Jul 29, 2021 10:08:01 GMT -7
The "feel" of ARCing is far, far more important than the grade that you're climbing.
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Post by cozisco on Jul 29, 2021 10:08:45 GMT -7
To more directly answer your question, it depends. If you take a 25 ft bouldery 5.11 and add on 50 ft of 5.6, the grade wouldn't change. If you take that same 25 ft 5.11 and added another 25 ft 5.11 on top of it, then the overall difficulty would likely increase.
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