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E30: Drew Ruana Part 1: Megatron, grading, career plans and Reddit

The Careless Talk Climbing Podcast

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Grading

The community seem to take grading as if it's not a fallible system, which is just a number put on by a person. At the end of the day like grades are it gets arranged you know it's totally fine if someone like finds better bait in. I think people take grading too seriously or especially with downgrading and it's like just because someone else has done it before. It doesn't matter whether a climb is v16 or v17 who will have a good experience that they'll be able to get roughly enough grade for an international climbing tour.

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