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Dave Graham - Wow!

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Tim Buckle 23 Apr 2003

Met Dave graham in font last week. Had never even heard of him until my friend pointed it out.

But wow. Very very impressive climber. And a thoroughly nice bloke.

Is it true he repeated Dremtime??

Tim

nature boy 23 Apr 2003

In reply to Tim Buckle: yep.

Michael Ryan 23 Apr 2003

In reply to Tim Buckle:

A great chappie and one of the the most talented and productive sport climber and boulderers in the world.

Check out his scorecard at:
http://www.8a.nu/eng/index.shtml

his resume at:
http://www.sterlingrope.com/

a nice slide show of him here:
http://www.prana.com/home.html

AND

Go to THE DOSE at

http://www.climbxmedia.com/index4.html

and watch "Four At Font" and "The Buttermilker" and "Spectre".......and Wills Young's "Extremley Small Things".

Mick

OP Iain 23 Apr 2003

In reply to Mick - Rockfax USA:
You truly are a sad hero worshiping neo-yank.

Michael Ryan 23 Apr 2003

In reply to Iain:

> (In reply to Mick - Rockfax USA)
> You truly are a sad hero worshiping neo-yank.

Not sad at all.

I've got a lot of respect for David Graham. In fact anyone who performs at the highest level at their chosen sport and manages to be unpretencious.

Mick

OP KH 23 Apr 2003

In reply to Tim Buckle: Was at Font last week and spoke to Dave Graham while doing a problem. He's a cool person with a real down to earth nature. He also gave me a bit of advice which I applied to virtually every other problem I did at Font. The advice was "just mantle the shit out of it!!". Don't think I'll ever forget that. Kev

Tim Buckle 23 Apr 2003

In reply to KH: Kev!

Its Tim, whos was with u in font

Lol

neil@freeclimb.net 23 Apr 2003

In reply to KH:

We were with him last week in the dark trying his 8c project gecko assis whata f*cking hard problem that is

Tim Buckle 23 Apr 2003

In reply to neil@freeclimb.net: Thats cool

Where abouts was that? Did he get it?

neil@freeclimb.net 23 Apr 2003

In reply to Tim Buckle:

Just by the viaduct at the roundabout in font a lone boulder in the woods, gecko is 8b and there is a 7c+ there only two weeks old, he nearly got it but greased of the second last hold, then it just got two dark but he flu up the 8b several times

Tim Buckle 23 Apr 2003

In reply to neil@freeclimb.net: Blimey. He is a most impressive guy. Was amazed at how small he was, like a stick insect. But so powerful!

So did u have a go at those 2 problems? Any luck?