Routesetting in the Modern Age
I see trends. I see copy-cats. I see certifications. I see lack of experience and substitutions of certifications for experience. I see new holds. New walls. New careers. New "volumes." (We didn't used to call them volumes when we made them ourselves. Let's not pretend these are anything more than oddly-cut sections of plywood pieced together. And overpriced shapes made of plywood and paint.) A certification is no substitute for hours spent playing around with placing holds and calling the sequences "routes." There is a lot of presumptuous crap being place on the walls in the name of "routesetting" and deemed as greatness when in actuality it is simply someone getting practice out of their ego spewing. Home walls are the place where routesetters are born. Gyms may pay if you sell it well and they buy your act. Build yourself an 8x8 wall in your [mom's] garage and BUY and a box of holds. Practice placing them. Stripping