Seems bizarre to keep the same wall config for all of time. The sport becomes about muscle memory more than anything else. The competitors can literally turn off their conscious brain. It would seem to me, it would be more exciting as a spectator and competitor if they had to problem solve on their way up there. Records could be less about best times and more about how many rounds did someone win in a row or something.
They could even still incorporate the one standardized wall config as a speed round once in a while or integrate it into the competition in some other way.
> Seems bizarre to keep the same wall config for all of time. The sport becomes about muscle memory more than anything else.
Plenty of other sport are pretty much the same each time, particularly track and field.
Exactly, I don't understand people who watch any of the tracl and field disciplines and complain about this wall being the same everytime. Like there's about 10 different disciplines of people running on a plain track and that's fine but people climbing the same wall isn't.
I totally get that you might find lead or bouldering more interesting but that's not the point.
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Once an activity has become a “competitive sport” it has a way of prioritising “measurable” over meaningful or enjoyable. When you develop a critical eye for this aspect of sport, the Olympics stop being enjoyable and become an utter horror of human maladjustment, a horrid parody of what it alleges to stand for.
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