Favorite/helpful Sayings
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Id like to know what are others favorite or helpful sayings (mantras, reminders, slogans, chants as just a few examples of `sayings`) that they use when climbing or for climbing training/teaching? To calm, motivate or keeping yourself from being "to bold." |
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Here's one that a more experienced guy taught me early on in trad leading: "less rack, more sack" is sometimes the answer. Less can be more. |
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serenity now! |
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don't fuck up and die |
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You're old man was straight forward, no misinterpreting that. Where'd you grow up ben? brawling and fucking in kindergarten; were you also selling cigarettes on the playground and black mailing teachers? |
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The dirty west...as in western NY. Pretty hardcore out there. Lots of prisons and trailer parks. And deer. A ton of deer. |
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Jake you mentioned one the military taught you so ill share one the military taught me that applies to climbing/mountain environment: |
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"Get your hands up in them guts" |
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Kid Icarus is "Get your hands up in them guts" referring to a crack climbing "mentality"? I'm just curious because that's what my mind immediately went to. |
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C'mon. Can't believe this wasn't the first one posted. |
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Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it |
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"Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it" |
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yeah it's come in handy a few times |
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Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment. - Mulla Nasrudin (13th century) |
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Spread your legs and trust the rubber.
I always thought it goes like this... Relax, spread your legs, and trust the rubber. When somebody says one of my climbs is a sandbag.... I like to comeback with this. "I can't help it if you have no skills" |
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Of course people have heard "Just don't fall" Somehow it works ha |
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SIM MA DOWN NOW! |
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From a buddy: |
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That saying Logan is a good one. Reminds me of a scene from the movie "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" where Little John is flailing, freaking out that he's drowning but he's only in 2-3inches of water. |
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Mind yur top knot |
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Ben Brotelho wrote:don't fuck up and die -my old manMe and my climbing partner were told this atop the first pitch of Shockley's ceiling, by a classic Gunks climber, and I hope I can still climb at his age. I have used this saying since. If this was your father, that is awesome. |