What Does Your Pyramid Look Like?
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In the context of climbing at different grades of difficulty, the quantity of routes that a climber has completed is often described as a pyramid -- wide at the bottom, but very few stones at the highest level. This is helpful to think about when training. If your goal is to send a climb of grade X, it makes sense to have a few climbs of grade X-1 under your belt first. |
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you're thinking too much. Just go climb and have fun. screw the grades |
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One of a Kind Climb - 1 |
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I'll bite.. |
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Hardest to easiest or recent climbs. |
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Routes |
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One thing I'm really surprised by is the low number of flashes at 2-4 grades below peoples' limit. |
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Marco Dees wrote:One thing I'm really surprised by is the low number of flashes at 2-4 grades below peoples' limit. At least for bouldering, I will often flash problems 2 grades below my hardest grade. Maybe that means I'm not projecting hard enough.I would agree with that on both parts. Go project more. |
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Pyramid? |
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Charlie S wrote:Pyramid? Whoops... All climbs: Climbs that matter (redpoint, flash, or OS): Didn't bother to remove the ratings because honestly, they're nothing to brag about. Note that for ascents that "matter," the pyramid shape is a little more defined.Wow, that's a hell of a spreadsheet! I'm curious how you have the rest of your climbing spreadsheets set up to link to that... I'm interested in setting something up like that. |
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Markuso wrote: Wow, that's a hell of a spreadsheet! I'm curious how you have the rest of your climbing spreadsheets set up to link to that... I'm interested in setting something up like that.It's actually in Microsoft Access. I was bringing Excel to its knees. PM me if you want it and I'll send it your way. Access has a pretty tough learning curve, but is very powerful from a data management and visualization standpoint. If you're looking to make calculations and functions, however, Excel can't be beat. |
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Though not as detailed as Charlie's above, an easy way to view one's bouldering curve is to register at Track Your Climb and click in your data after each session: |
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Jon Nelson wrote:Though not as detailed as Charlie's above, an easy way to view one's bouldering curve is to register at Track Your Climb and click in your data after each session: trackyourclimb.com/I am going to check into that as I have tracked every gym and outside climbing day since spring 2010. |
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Charlie S wrote: It's actually in Microsoft Access. I was bringing Excel to its knees. PM me if you want it and I'll send it your way. Access has a pretty tough learning curve, but is very powerful from a data management and visualization standpoint. If you're looking to make calculations and functions, however, Excel can't be beat.Thanks for the offer, don't have Microsoft access unfortunately and doesn't look like google drive has a database program. Looks awesome though. |
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13a- 1 about 40 goes |
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Markuso wrote: Thanks for the offer, don't have Microsoft access unfortunately and doesn't look like google drive has a database program. Looks awesome though.Open Office has a database program which may work: openoffice.org/product/base… However, I can't verify its compatibility. |
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The progression pyramid was described in great detail in a 1993 book "Performance Rock Climbing" by Gale Goddard and Udo Neumann. |
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Trying hard and having fun is not mutually exclusive with the nerdy joy of tracking things and making a grade pyramid. I don't boulder outside enough to have a bouldering pyramid, but I do have a sport onsight pyramid and a sport redpoint pyramid. I tweak my pyramid a little though, I only track climb I've done within the last 12 months, and instead of multiplying the goal route number by two when dropping a grade, I add two to the goal route number. So ideally my pyramid would look like: |