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XGAMES SPEED ROCK CLIMBING 1999

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The year is 1999, the place is San Fransico, the home to the 1999 XGAMES, The world watched 10 years ago as new records were broken and American, Aaron Shamy, brings home the Gold in Speed Rock Climbing, a little known sport that has since been removed from the XGAMES.

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  • well they should have made the climbing more difficult, even though its crazy how fast they do it people just got used to it and there were no difficulties

  • There are two types of competition rock climbing, technical climbing & speed climbing. A Speed climbing route isn't meant to be difficult it is built to be fast. The rating on a speed route is anywhere from 5.10a - 5.11 No one wants to see people go slow in a speed climbing comp, hence the only thing being measured is the speed - not their ability to climb a difficult route.

    The XGames also hosted tech competition climbing, unfortunately the pace of difficulty climbing doesn't hold mass appeal.

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  • I wish they still had climbing in the Xgames. That would be awesome, and I definately be watching that.

  • x-games used to be so much better

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  • Shamy. you most certainly "spanked it!"

  • Shamy is my seminary teacher this year. Just showed us this video in class today! It amazed me. Great job Shamy(:

  • @yomattieT In the US? I don't know. I guess not enough people were watching it. They only had it like one year in the US. I don't know about Asia though.

  • @TheDiomair my teacher too!

  • Aaron Shamy is Awesome! He is also my seminary teacher. You are an Awesome climber!

  • aaron shamy is my seminary teacher, hes still short :) 

  • @yomattieT its only interesting if you know how to climb

  • I know Shammy! He is my seminary teacher! way cool guy! i go rock climbing with him all the time! He's an amazing great guy

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