Do you have to land it for it to count?

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Yount on December 8, 2009 at 7:07am

I also had a moment in New Hampshire where I ended up basically sliding down wet rock on my back and didn't finish the rapid squarely on my board (more like hanging on to it with one hand), so I promptly walked back up and cleaned it because that first run couldn't count as a first descent.

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Permalink Reply by J. Young on December 8, 2009 at 9:00am

See, that's style. Good on ya Kev.

Here's another climbing climbing story... this one's about a famous free soloist who, while climbing something that had never been climbed unroped before, found himself facing a particularly difficult and scary sequence of holds high about the ground. The consequences of blowing it were clearly death. If he slipped, there would be absolutely no reprieve. However, there was a loop of webbing nearby tied through a hole in the rock. He moved the loop so it lay around the hand hold he needed, but not touching it. Then, without actually using the webbing at all, he reached through the webbing, grabbed the hold and climbed into the sequence thinking, "If I fall, I can grab the webbing."

He finished the climb successfully, but felt so strongly that his "use" of the webbing loop tainted his ascent that he returned the next day and re-soloed the climb without it.

Stupid? Maybe. An uncompromising devotion to the purity of his craft? Definitely.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Galt on December 9, 2009 at 9:53pm

"An uncompromising devotion to the purity of his craft? Definitely."

Yes.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Galt on December 7, 2009 at 7:24am

Bummer but choose different equipment. You can't win a car race if your tires fall off. :)

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Permalink Reply by Ian "Twiggy" Rummer on December 8, 2009 at 3:52pm

I tend to think of running rivers like freestyle events. If you pull a trick but don't land it it doesn't count towards your score. Jus like if you're running a tough line, and get it wrong you haven't completed the run, whatever it may be. Just a thought.

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Permalink Reply by Rochelle Parry on December 15, 2009 at 7:14pm

those tandem kayakers rolled upside-down after the record falls, but they both came up in the boat holding onto their paddles. I would have been more impressed if they didn't roll, but no one is saying it didn't count.

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Permalink Reply by Alex Koutzoukis on December 15, 2009 at 8:34pm

I think that you definitely have to land something (holding on to your board upright) for it to count.

But really, if someone cares that much about having a "world record title" then they are probably a kook.

If you drop off a 30-40' waterfall and don't quite land it, who cares, you're still a badass.

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