I want to know what you know about bouldering

What do you know about Bouldering?

I'm about to write a paper and I'm curious about the knowledge people have about the origin of modern bouldering. I'm not necessarily looking for the "right" answer, just what you know.

If you're willing, please take the following form. No worries either way, and if there is anything that needs clarification or is just flat out bad let me know. I am eager to write an accurate & interesting paper!

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Thanks All!

And maybe, if John Gill is around, what did you know before you "founded" modern bouldering? How did you personally see the community change & evolve?

Morning, there is a funny and good YouTube video on bouldering it’s called The History of Every Bouldering Grade, if you have not seen it you should check it out! Hope that was helpful happy climbing Mike A.

I think I've watched that recently! I remember it being a good watch. Thanks for the suggestion Mike!

Alex Grant wrote:

And maybe, if John Gill is around, what did you know before you "founded" modern bouldering? How did you personally see the community change & evolve?

When I began climbing as a high school junior in 1953 in the Deep South there was little if any information about rock climbing available. The difficulty scale in Europe was Grade I through VI, reflecting climbing as an extension of hiking. After my gymnastics course at GaTech in 1954 I began to see rock climbing more as an extension of gymnastics. Hence chalk and dynamic moves and strength training. In about 1957 Chouinard told me what I was doing was called "bouldering". He and friends would practice at Stoney Point, but didn't consider it real climbing. For years I thought that Californians had coined the word, then discovered its use in books on British climbing published in the late 1800s. 

All I did was encourage the perspective of bouldering being a "legitimate" form of rock climbing, possibly a competitive sport since there was always that informal aspect of it, not just casual practice for longer routes. I was very good at it during the late 1950s and 1960s, but could see over the horizon there would be much, much better athletes in the future. I avoided a simple number scale, like my friend Verm's creation years later, thinking it would simply encourage number chasing. Short sighted of me.

I heard the Anasazi had some futuristic condie dependent day flash rigs