Hey Guys! What Is The English Trials Term For...

[Peter Green]

Obviously i can't tell you like that "english term for smth" as i don't know how it is smth )))

How do you call a thing you ride on.

A challenging rock, for example.

A tempting pair of rails.

A spot?

A thing?

"It's ridable?"

In russian we have an exact one and only word for all those cases - it's an analogue of an english word "topic". So that's how we say it - "so i made this damn topic the other day" Or "Whhooooooo check out THAT topic!"

Enough said, you got it:)

What do you use?

Thanks!

more questions will eventually arise.

[Ben John-Hynes]

We usually have names for the places we ride. But if we don't, I tend to call it a spot. For example, let's ride that spot with the sloping wall.

[Peter Green]

We usually have names for the places we ride. But if we don't, I tend to call it a spot. For example, let's ride that spot with the sloping wall.

I see, but the spot can not be referred to a "thing" inside a spot. A spot can contain like 50 different moves, how do you call them ? They are the possibilities of a move

[Ben Swales]

Obstacle is one way of referring to individual items in a section. Most of the time people just tend to refer to it by its actual name; "I got up that wall by the seafront yesterday", "I managed that gap up from the rock to the log" etc.

Hope that helps.

[Alex Dark]

Lines...normally moves or runs of several moves you do

[Ben Swales]

I thought about mentioning 'lines', but Peter seemed to be asking about individual obstacles.

Peter - a line usually comprises several objects ridden one after the other, just to be clear

[Rush]

Similar to how you would refer to a bouldering 'problem' I guess?

Its mainly an obstacle if youre looking for a generic term, but we wouldnt usually call it that. We might even give a specific obstacle a name like: 'hook wall' or 'brick faggot gap' 'statue drop' etc.

Interesting difference in languages though.

[max-t]

We usually have names for the places we ride. But if we don't, I tend to call it a spot. For example, let's ride that spot with the sloping wall.

You mean, the red wall

[ogre]

a line or a spot. and then the trials move can be tagged on if its obvious where the move was done, like i did the debenhams gap in lincoln, haha sounds like tony hawks

[Ben John-Hynes]

You mean, the red wall

Oh god yes, LEEROY!

[Peter Green]

Ok, I see about lines.. We actually don't have a name for lines.

That's interesting, that in different languages those things form differently. You don't have a term for "topic", we don't have a term for "line" and still everybody's content with what they've got and have no trouble understanding each other:)

Thanks guys!!

[casualjoe]

You could always create a name for a line. Surely you made up the name for 'a tempting set of rails.' How about calling it a grivoj ?

[Peter Green]

Of course, everybody does that. We all have names for lines, but not the name of the name of the line.

"Line" works actually:)