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I don't do much bouldering, but at my nearest good venue, the Mungrisdale boulders, there are a lot of "sitting starts". Do these involve having all your weight on your bum, just a bit, or hovering with your bum a shortish distance off the floor? Also, are you to have both feet off the floor and on the actual boulder you are climbing (rather than a smaller boulder underneath the overhanging start of the one you are grappling with) with your bum suitably weighted on the ground. I know it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things....just wondering how poor I really am at bouldering (very) and how much room for manouvre there is

In reply to tmawer:

Depends. Is this Mungrisdale of which you speak in France?

jcm

In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

Carrock Fell in the Lakes. I'd say your arse should be fully on the floor. Might get a bit damp at Mungrisdale however...

In reply to tmawer: you sit on the floor, like you would if you were just sitting on the floor. Your arse should be the last thing to leave the ground. In respect to using smaller jammed blocks beneath the main boulder that depends on the problem. Do what you think is right if it doesn't say though.

In reply to tmawer:

If you can't pull a rizla paper from underneath yer cheeks then you are sitting viz a viz a sitting start

In reply to naffan:
"Your arse should be the last thing to leave the ground"

I think you have it there! In which case I am failing miserably on some of these problems and will await somebody with more talent, longer arms, bendier legs and/or a lighter arse to show me the way!

In reply to tmawer: a sit start is when your bum is the last thing to leave the ground.

In reply to Aigen:

unless the first holds are further away from the ground than the length from buttcheek to fingertips.

In reply to tmawer: ass on the grass...
otherwise it'd be called a 'crouch start', or summat.
If it's wet, sit on the square of carpet you surely have in the bottom of your sack for wiping feet on. So long as the carpet's not too thick mind, or that'd be cheating.

In reply to ripper:

Underlay, or not?

In reply to ripper:

Does sitting on a stack of 3 bouldering mats not count, then?

In reply to Carolyn:

Surely start on none, and get your spotter to sling them under your arse after you make the first few moves?

But at OP, I'd say a sit start is arse on the floor most of the time, or just hovering above it on some problems. Generally you'd lift your arse up as you 'pull on' to the problem anyhow.

In reply to Steve nevers:

In some cases you may not be able to reach the starting holds from sitting, in which case hanging from the starting holds statically, with both feet on the bloc will generally entail movement of the same difficulty to reach the next holds.

In reply to tmawer:

Start sitting down. But who cares if you're sitting on the floor or a mat?

In reply to tmawer:

The wise man stands up before he starts climbing

In reply to timjones:
Like

In reply to timjones:

The wise man does proper climbing instead. You know, with ropes and stuff.

*retires to a safe distance having lit the blue touchpaper*

:-D

In reply to Niall:

Grey yawnpaper more like

In reply to hoodmonkey:

Ah well, it was worth a try. *bored*

In reply to tmawer: you really need to get out more............

In reply to unclesamsauntibess:

Says the man posting on here on a summers afternoon