Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Semantics

Anderson [an-dur-son] -verb: To fall off the very last move of a 5.12 after crushing the crux and requiring nothing more than to complete the 5.10 finish to get the send. This is especially true if you've done the same thing several times already. "Dude, I thought it was in the bag and then I totally andersoned at the end."

Right when the crew and I were about to send this newly developed word to Websters for consideration, Andy (aka. Andy Ando Anderson, aka. Randy Rando Randerson) completely turned things around. Not only did he send basically every outstanding project on his list within the last few weeks (including the two he's famous for whipping off in The Crew), he also set a personal best today by sending three 5.12 routes in the same afternoon—two redpoints and one flash. I, on the other hand, managed to squeak out one send and then whip off the top of a 5.12b over and over again. Basically, I andersoned all over the end of that thing.

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