Climbers' Phrases

by **Brad Marshall** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:57 am

"Get the F*CK off the rope!"

This comment was made by a friend of mine to his partner when the partner arrived at the end of their first pitch. Apparently his partner leaned back on the rope and it caused the leader's nut sack to get pulled into his belay device. :lol:

Man did we laugh our asses off all the way home. Good times, well for the rest of us anyways.

by **Brad Marshall** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:00 am

One more,

"Umm, you might want to put a piece of gear in now, you've got more than enough rope to deck".

Deleted User · by **Deleted User** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:07 am

Had a guy call me and my regular partner pussies for taping up to climb some cracks.

The guy said real climbers don't use tape.

This guy bled, that day, profusely. He also failed to send, on top rope, what the pussies led for him.

A few weeks later on an internet site, not this one mind you, the same climber lectured others he taped up because he didn't want scabs on his hands putting off people at work.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Grasshopper learn, HARD WAY.

THEN TAKE CREDIT FOR ADVICE.

Hahahahahahaha!

DMT

Deleted User · by **Deleted User** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:09 am

"That gear on your rack is paid for Dingus. It doesn't go any good though, till you place it."

Angus Carbide.

DMT

by **Andinistaloco** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:58 am

axisofevil wrote:Usually better left unsaid: " Your last piece came out"

Reminds me of climbing in southern AZ.

"Now you're free!"

...calls my partner, a disturbing amount of feet below, as my last piece pops out of the shit-rock.

Love this topic. Every two years it starts and every two years I love the responses.

Three that come to mind, said by various partners:

"You might as well move!"

"I don't want to come back here...."

"Can you hold up? I really need to rest for a bit here."

by **charles** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:15 am

Dingus Milktoast wrote:Had a guy call me and my regular partner pussies for taping up to climb some cracks.

The guy said real climbers don't use tape.

This guy bled, that day, profusely. He also failed to send, on top rope, what the pussies led for him.

A few weeks later on an internet site, not this one mind you, the same climber lectured others he taped up because he didn't want scabs on his hands putting off people at work.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Grasshopper learn, HARD WAY.

THEN TAKE CREDIT FOR ADVICE.

Hahahahahahaha!

DMT

Last year in the Torino hut I watched two guys who wanted to climb on the rock spires near it the next day, tape their hands in the evening and then cut the tape off like a glove so they could "slip" into it the next day. Good idea thought I.

by **mvs** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:16 am

Dingus Milktoast wrote:The Czech from the Eiger Sanction :

"Bad weather, good weather, its all climbing weather." (spoke about a day before he got the chop, lol)

DMT

Not Czech, Austrian!

by **charles** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:53 am

mvs wrote:
Dingus Milktoast wrote:The Czech from the Eiger Sanction :

"Bad weather, good weather, its all climbing weather." (spoke about a day before he got the chop, lol)

DMT

Not Czech, Austrian!

Pedant!

by **SKI** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:24 pm

Dingus Milktoast wrote:
Had a guy call me and my regular partner pussies for taping up to climb some cracks.

The guy said real climbers don't use tape.

This guy bled, that day, profusely. He also failed to send, on top rope, what the pussies led for him.

A few weeks later on an internet site, not this one mind you, the same climber lectured others he taped up because he didn't want scabs on his hands putting off people at work.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Grasshopper learn, HARD WAY.

THEN TAKE CREDIT FOR ADVICE.

Hahahahahahaha!

DMT

Last year in the Torino hut I watched two guys who wanted to climb on the rock spires near it the next day, tape their hands in the evening and then cut the tape off like a glove so they could "slip" into it the next day. Good idea thought I.

My girlfriend made me throw away my rather pungent tape-gloves from Indian Creek when I returned home

. I've heard that some people keep their tape-gloves for years and just replace the wrist-wraps...

Deleted User · by **Deleted User** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:19 pm

Yes I reuse tape gloves quite a bit - particularly if training and trying to get in an afternoon of crackage.

There is a righteous pair in my pack right now.

Cheers
DMT

Deleted User · by **Deleted User** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:26 pm

dingus, you shoulda seen me flailing about on a 5.10 crack this last weekend. it was quite hilarious. i didn't use tape. a friend of mine loaned me her little pre-fab gloves. they seemed to work okay (i don't know how to use tape yet.)

i didn't send, but it was still fun.

by **charles** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:03 pm

Dingus Milktoast wrote:Yes I reuse tape gloves quite a bit - particularly if training and trying to get in an afternoon of crackage.

There is a righteous pair in my pack right now.

Cheers
DMT

an afternoon of "crackage" --- umm what could you mean there???

by **welle** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:30 pm

Not climbing related per se, but so true - came from my friend on Facebook this morning: "Summer, like LA, is better as a concept than a reality."

by **MBS1017** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:10 pm

When working on anchor building with a guide, if it looked good he would say "I'd fall on that." (reminds me of "I'd hit that") Always thought it was funny so I adopted it.

by **peladoboton** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:32 am

not much of a phrase, but a square kick in the ass for me as i just started a training blog for climbing:

mark twight, everybody:
The Internet poser's world is hazy: he passes off sporting sub-disciplines for the real thing, hints at things he might do, under-reports the results of things he has done, foregoes events that offer genuine competition, short-strokes reps in the gym, refuses to use objective measuring tools (perhaps to evade the truth), and contrives virtual challenges through which he draws an apparent association with the legitimate event and its participants. This shit makes me sick.

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