"First Try" is already in use at least in the american bouldering scene for ambiguous less-than flashes. The most common scenario is when one uses a rope or aggressive pad stack to touch and brush holds that normally would not be accessible from the ground. I've also seen it used to describe ascents of sit start problems when the climber had previously done the stand start.
As standards advance to where the most astonishing ascents of today are inevitably relegated to yawn-inducing warm-ups of the future, I submit a term I coined at least 40 years ago, to describe whenever this sort of annoying bragging and posturing rears its ugly head - it's all Moot Pointing.
"First Try" is already in use at least in the american bouldering scene for ambiguous less-than flashes. The most common scenario is when one uses a rope or aggressive pad stack to touch and brush holds that normally would not be accessible from the ground. I've also seen it used to describe ascents of sit start problems when the climber had previously done the stand start.
As standards advance to where the most astonishing ascents of today are inevitably relegated to yawn-inducing warm-ups of the future, I submit a term I coined at least 40 years ago, to describe whenever this sort of annoying bragging and posturing rears its ugly head - it's all Moot Pointing.