bye bye footlock , thanks for the pain

[Tom Dunlap]

R&T,

You're right...there are better ways to get up trees now. Sure, people do body thrust but I doubt that any of the climbers who make it to the ITCC do. My bet would be that very few at the chapter level do that anymore on a routine basis. I'm not talking about the occasional body thrust either.

The most fun BSP's that I've seen in comps are set in trees with close branches that allow the climber to ascend like a ladder. When the tree structure looks like a ladder climb it like a ladder. The most memorable were a Ponderosa Pine in Denver and a Sequoia or Redwood in Seattle at the ITCC. Both were exciting to watch,not painful, when a climber is wrenching themselves up a bare trunk

 

[rockettree]

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The most fun BSP's that I've seen in comps are set in trees with close branches that allow the climber to ascend like a ladder. When the tree structure looks like a ladder climb it like a ladder. The most memorable were a Ponderosa Pine in Denver and a Sequoia or Redwood in Seattle at the ITCC. Both were exciting to watch,not painful, when a climber is wrenching themselves up a bare trunk

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I'll second that! Tree climbing is fun, rope climbing should be as efficient as possible.