Superman | 8B Boulder problem at Crag X

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The FA year is listed as 1988 in ‘Peak Rock’, the 1994 film 'One Summer' and in the chronology in Jerry's autobiography 'Revelations'. However, the text lists the FA year as 1989.

Peak Rock:

It was definitely the hardest boulder problem I had ever done T that point

Revelations:

Closer to Sheffield, some climbers had started exploring a crag called Cressbrook and added some problems. The first time I saw it, I fell in love with the place. It was a limestone dale with a long wall of smooth limestone, about fifteen feet high. Over a summer, some friends and I developed the crag a lot further adding problems like Jericho Road, Moffatrocity and the Hulk, all pretty hard.

That was in 1988, and the following year, Ben Moon started going there a lot. He started trying a sit-down start to my problem, the Hulk. … Ben was doing well on this. It looked like a fantastic, hard piece of climbing. However, I was injured. A tendon problem in my finger meant I couldn't push it too hard, so I couldn't join in. I was jealous.

As it happened, by the next year, 1989, Ben still hadn't done it. I had recovered, and now he was injured. I managed to do the problem and called it Superman. This was probably the hardest problem in Britain, but at the time, nobody was that interested, apart from those of us who climbed there. Bouldering just wasn't news.(1)

On possible changes in difficulty, Jerry stated:

Firstly on Superman, the foothold that broke wasn't used on the first and second ascent and really doesn't make a difference to the grade. It does feel more greasy than it used to. [3]

References

[1] Jerry Moffatt, Niall Grimes, 'Revelations', 2009, Vertebrate Publishing

[2] On The Edge issue 114, page 44

[3] Letter to On The Edge, issue 104, page 8

References

[1] https://youtu.be/RnGf69g6Igc?t=1899

First ascent after sidepull breakage

References

[1] https://moonclimbing.com/News/post/warning-this-is-a-long-blog

[2] https://www.8a.nu/crags/bouldering/united-kingdom/crag-x/sectors/unknown-sector-1eb8b/routes/superman-ii

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/CKUOhq8jC2S/

References

[1] Correspondence over Instagram with Martin.

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[1] https://vimeo.com/61087896

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CjItD4fDMht/

Max was close on the flash.

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw0Sqd7t2R0/=

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/C8FfAByNW0X/

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8zbz7oIU0C/

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/C9KHJEYtR7N/?img_index=1

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rs8wFxJryI

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DICZ2NxM8hX/

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJlt9butxJ8/

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKH7WnPMzfr/

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DKrxRMVNRll/

References

[1] On The Edge issue 114, page 44

References

[1] Instagram message from Martin Smith