Etiquette on renaming SDS

Latter Day Start?

Mark Pilatewrote:

Isn’t “sit down start” annoyingly redundant?

What’s the redundant part? I mean, I guess most people verbally say “sit start” instead of “sit down start” if they are talking about it out loud. SDS is just the abbreviation for climbs for documentation purposes in guidebooks tbh 

Desert Rock Sportswrote:

Next LDS

Logical progression 

How about digging out the start for more than 4 moves? DDS?

Bouldering is so fun, but this is why people (including Honnold and JStar on this week’s podcast) make fun of it 

M Mwrote:

How about digging out the start for more than 4 moves? DDS?

Grand Illusion would like a word. 

Camdon Kaywrote:

Bouldering is so fun, but this is why people (including Honnold and JStar on this week’s podcast) make fun of it 

Everyone who gives a shit about what 'honnold and jstar' think about boulders raise ya hand

I’d be curious to know what John Gill thinks about this discussion (or the current state of bouldering, in general).

Camdon Kaywrote:

Bouldering is so fun, but this is why people (including Honnold and JStar on this week’s podcast) make fun of it 

Jstar can make fun all he wants, but he also credits a season focused on bouldering around the Rockies for his most successful sport climbing stint in Europe a few years back……pretty sure Ondra had a similar experience with bouldering as well   #hatersgonnahate

SSPS- stand (on) stacked pads start

SDS Sit Down Start
LDS Lay Down Start
SSPS Stand on Stacked Pads Start
IS Invert Start (ie offwidth cracks, or otherwise)
ISS Invert Sit Start (?)
BISS Backward Invert Sit Start
TRS Toyota Roof Start
BS Boat Start
BSS Boat Sit Start
BLS Boat Lay Start
PBS Piggy Back Start
HSS Hand Stand Start
HERPES High Elevation Rapid Pneumatic Expulsion Start (you fart and it gives you a miniscule boost for a moment)

"Students for a Democratic Society"

Desert Rock Sportswrote:

SDS Sit Down Start
LDS Lay Down Start
SSPS Stand on Stacked Pads Start
IS Invert Start (ie offwidth cracks, or otherwise)
ISS Invert Sit Start (?)
BISS Backward Invert Sit Start
TRS Toyota Roof Start
BS Boat Start
BSS Boat Sit Start
BLS Boat Lay Start
PBS Piggy Back Start
HSS Hand Stand Start
HERPES High Elevation Rapid Pneumatic Expulsion Start (you fart and it gives you a miniscule boost for a moment)

I can apply these to roped disciplines…yeah?

Y'all are gonna lose your minds when you find out about "Ali Hulk extension total (SDS)"

bratt dowre wrote:

I generally support adding bolts to older, excessively runout routes. As Beck points out, the runout on older routes is usually due more to budget than a desire for danger. I think that heading off potential hospitalizations and I juries is worth the slight ding to someone's ego. Another good example of this is the anchor bolts on Colorado Crack at J-Tree, a location where the park-approved bolts generally get chopped with 24 hours of installation. Bolting there speeds up parties to avoid congestion, and reduces rock wear on the anchor crack, which is starting to get more noticeable.

Wrong thread bro bot.

With most roped climbing the crux is somewhere up there **gestures vaguely**, not within the first 6 ft of the ground... so we just don't care.