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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 29, 2015 - 02:58pm PT
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Out Freakin' Standing!
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climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Aug 29, 2015 - 03:08pm PT
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Great story, Rich.
And those guys in the last photo look like they're levitating!
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Aug 29, 2015 - 04:26pm PT
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Clearly a product of the meditative arts.
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Claw Fang
Ice climber
High Falls, New York
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After further review and several corroborations , there are some amongst us, still living, including one Burt Angrist who feel that the first full theatrical public performance presentation of this most eloquaciously described Triple Threat Front Lever actually had Dr. Angrist as the understudent - the lowest leveraged athlete who absorbed the pileup at former Mohonk Preserve Ranger Thom Scheuer's home that prodigious evening. Not to disparage or diminish Kevin Bein's role in the development of this fiasco.
To continue this thread it should be brought forth that Dr. Angrist again along with James P. McCarthy, Esq. also inaugurated the first AND ONLY documented "Crutch Race" which resulted in severe injury to both participants, well pre-modulated with C2H5OH and other chemicals.
As I recall, the story goes: Jim and Burt and consorts were prepping for an evening out about town at Mac's place. Jim had by prior arrangement from some fiasco, which probably also belongs in this report, wound up requiring crutches. Dr. Angrist also for some other malfeasance similarly was attired. As they stepped out onto the street to commence travel to their appointed evening festivities the ever athletically challenging McCarthy started having to step up his pace to keep up with the unencumbered women. Burt took this as a challenge apparently and soon McCarthy and Burt were viciously lunging forward side by side in a peculiar drag race - leaping along down mid-town - when Burt caught a sidewalk crack with one of his crutch tips (they were not advanced competition ADDIDAS tips). Pole vault to a face plant for Burt with a bloody mouth and quite a few teeth re-arranged forced a change of plans. Fortunately Bellevue was not too far away AND the prepping for the evening had dulled all pain.
Burt recalls being interviewed by the admitting physician, explaining how this atrocity happened and leaning over to peer onto the notes the attending was making where Burt could clearly see the attending writing in somewhat bemused fashion "CRUTCH RACE".
Some think of climbing as dangerous?
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vmcgal
Trad climber
New Paltz, NY
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I too was at this illustrious event and I too thought it Dr. Burt on the bottom. The night was dark and the house was in construction and the drugs/alcohol in a dangerous mix. But as it is said, it's true even if it didn't happen.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2016 - 07:59am PT
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Indeed! Perhaps it was Dr. Burt, especially since he himself seems to think so. (Then again, the altered state of reality under which the event occurred might lead observers to think they were participants and participants to think they were observers...perhaps far more than a triple lever was in process that day...)
If it was the good doctor, then it must be noted that he had not participated in the aformentioned rigorous training sessions that lead up to our triumphant performance. In any case, the untimely end of the tableau was still caused by McCarthy's shocking inability to indefinitely hold nearly 400 lbs of prime Vulgarian beef on a bomber first-joint doorjamb.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Jun 15, 2016 - 09:16am PT
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Bump for great climbing stories
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 28, 2017 - 07:18pm PT
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Nicely padded bump...
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Being, as always, right up to date, I just noticed some comments on this thread posted a mere two years ago, that claimed that one Dr. Burt Angrist contends that he was the bottom 'member' of this historic occurrence. I can report, however, that the late Kevin Bein had personally told myself and others that it was indeed him who 'anchored'--in more ways than one--- this trio. Given what participants have said about the varied states of consciousness that evening perhaps both are wrong--or maybe it was, indeed, a four man front lever!!!!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Jul 29, 2018 - 11:31pm PT
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 31, 2018 - 11:43am PT
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Being, as always, right up to date, I just noticed some comments on this thread posted a mere two years ago, that claimed that one Dr. Burt Angrist contends that he was the bottom 'member' of this historic occurrence. I can report, however, that the late Kevin Bein had personally told myself and others that it was indeed him who 'anchored'--in more ways than one--- this trio. Given what participants have said about the varied states of consciousness that evening perhaps both are wrong--or maybe it was, indeed, a four man front lever!!!!
Yeah, I'm sticking with my recollections on this. Kevin was on the bottom.
Kevin and improvised front levers had a long history of catastrophes. When I was in college and Kevin was still in high school, he came over to my house one day and we were doing what any pair of teenagers do to while away a boring afternoon---trying front levers on all the door jambs of my family's apartment.
Well, we got to my room and Kevin pulled into yet another one in perfect form, when a loud explosion and cloud of paint and plaster dust announced the demise of practically everything connected in any way with the door. I had not yet perfected the art of the spot and instead viewed the cataclysm from the safe perspective of my bed. My mom came rushing, and found Kevin on the floor, sputtering from ingesting plaster dust and covered with wood and paint chips. She didn't even ask what the hell we'd been doing, just left and returned with a broom and dust pan, which she silently handed over. Kevin and I sensed that we were on the cusp of overtraining and decided, with some reluctance, not to perform any more front levers for the rest of the afternoon.
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