ISA ITCC 2010

[Roger_Barnett]

Re: BELAYED SPEED CLIMB 2010

Exactly, treebing.

Well, save for out west with our conifers. At the 2002 ITCC, the speed climb was held in a 150 foot, 10 foot dbh sequoia....a great climb with very little body thrusting save for the bottom. We've had other comps in similar trees. The ascent has been over 100 feet a few times! A fella whom I trained won one of them. I forget the time but it was wicked fast for an appx 110 foot climb.

 

[Murph]

Re: BELAYED SPEED CLIMB 2010

Most trees don't have branches for the first few meters and potentially a gap or two somewhere in the middle. For these places the belay line should be available as an option to move through these dead zones. All other times I think it should be branches only or it moves away from the spirit of the event. Climbing branches requires some skill as well as fitness, a 60' air hump requires only fitness. Perhaps I'm biased, this is my favorite event and anything that can potentially dumb it down opens the field up to someone beating me

 

[rangerdanger]

Re: BELAYED SPEED CLIMB 2010

Last year at the KY comp, we had it set up in a nice Hemlock, roughly 70ft up. You only had to bodythrust the first 20 feet or so, and then it was all branch climbing too the top.