Dab? Valid or invalid?

Dab? Watch my head and the pad. I felt something, but was it just my hair? Is this significant enough to worry about? What are your thoughts? How do you handle situations like this? Thanks everyone!
youtu.be/ypkgAHWEImk

Did you even dab? Can't really tell.
Its up to you. If I kick a pad or drag a heal, I don't count it but that's just me. Sort of silly though since dabbing rarely makes the problem easier. The exception is a dab that checks a swing.

INVALID!!!

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Ha

"How do you handle situations like this?"
I resend the problem...

Resolve? Either edit it out or don't record in the first place.

;-)

You obviously touched therefore NO SEND. Climbing is the art of defying gravity and NOT TOUCHING THE GROUND UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

Unfortunately you will have to try again. I recommend a bun or a haircut

grog m wrote:You obviously touched therefore NO SEND. Climbing is the art of defying gravity and NOT TOUCHING THE GROUND UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Unfortunately you will have to try again. I recommend a bun or a haircut

Yeah, I would never climb with someone like this.

You will find ridiculous purists in any sport or human activity of any kind.

Just the tip does count though no matter what she tells you...

healyc wrote:Dab? How do you handle situations like this? 

I consider it climbed and move on to the next problem. Soon the question is completely forgotten.

DAB! Don't delude yourself. If you have to ask you know the answer. Just regroup, make the necessary corrections and send.

Jon Nelson wrote: I consider it climbed and move on to the next problem. Soon the question is completely forgotten.

Agreed - and if it was worth doing again, do it without the dab. Otherwise, who cares.

This is a question only you can answer, do you feel like you did't send the problem? do you feel that your hair touching the pad helped you send the problem in any way? If you had put this clip in a video and not mentioned it I wouldn't have noticed or though twice about it, but all that really matters is that you are satisfied that you sent the problem.

I usually just check with my major sponsors and see what they think.

Whoa, that's amazing! You camouflaged yourself by wearing the exact same black and yellow color combo as your crash pad so that people can't tell if you dab even on uncut video of the "send"? Also, really nice use of the low contrast of black on black to eliminate evidence of dabbage. Very David Copperfield; next level for sure. This could be the future of high-end climbing videos.

I think that hair dabs used to be considered legit sends, because everyone from Chris Sharma to Ben Moon had Rasta hair that would have rendered this problem V20 without a haircut or beanie (there is a reason boulderers wear beanies). The use of a beanie here could have secured the send; I'd recommend a black and yellow one next time. As an outsider observing the absurdity of "ethics" in the hard-core bouldering scene, these days whether or not a hair dab is a send seems to depend mostly on how well you are liked by your climbing peers. So be nice.

healyc wrote:How do you handle situations like this? 

Plug in a piece of pro and stand in a sling. It beats potentially messing up my hair.

is this for real?

Question does anyone care that you are climbing this problem?

Climb for yourself and noone else, if it bothers you to think you cheated just go climb it again so you can clear your head.

Honestly if this post is serious you may want to go talk to a shrink.

fess up, how many forums did you post this to?

The amount of serious replies confirms my notion that many of you have zero sense of humor.

The writing is on the wall. Just bite the bullet, sell your bouldering gear, buy a few figure 8's, and focus your efforts, time, and money in sport rappelling as that dab pretty much invalidates your entire bouldering career.

BigNobody wrote:The amount of serious replies confirms my notion that many of you have zero sense of humor.

That would be the "number" of serious replies, not the "amount". Also, I believe it is "no sense of humor", not "zero sense of humor".

Wait a second, there was a serious reply? I'll have to reread this, I assumed every reply was sarcastic, just much people were jokier than others.

Is both Valid + Invalid,,,, valid if you are alone and nobody see you, invalid if you are with somebody because he see you,,,heheheheh