By Mark Hundleby

Think you're pretty hard core?

Well, it takes more than a big mat and a pair of baggy shorts to get respect for your steely fingers around here.

Complete the Crag X questionnaire to see if you've got the skills to pay the bills!

A rainy Sunday is best spent...
Doing plyometrics on the campus board as part of my power recruitment microcycle.
Bouldering on a crag steep enough that the rain is irrelevant.
In the pub watching football.
Climbing easy routes in a helmet and big boots.

A bouldering mat is...
Which of my several bouldering mats do you mean?
The most important piece of climbing equipment I own.
Useful for having a nap on.
A pathetic aid for cowardly climbers.

If my house was burning down, I would save...
My weight belt, training diary and collection of Muscle and Fitness magazines.
My favourite rock shoes and chalkbag.
My guidebooks so that I don't lose all my ticks.
The hip flask which accompanies me on all my climbs.

I prefer to get to the crag...
I prefer to stay indoors and train.
In under 14 minutes, 26 seconds. Jerry's current record.
Via the garage to buy a packet of Jaffa Cakes and a Mars Bar.
By bicycle to keep my legs good and strong for alpine routes.

I know Fred Nicole's...
Weaker than me on crimps.
Telephone number.
From Switzerland.
Erm, Fred who?

On the way back from Fontainebleau my car is loaded down with...
Human growth hormone bought from those strong Russian boulderers with the funny shaped heads I met at Cuvier.
Several small stones I found in the forest and which I am going to bolt on my campus board to train my skin for the next trip.
A dozen bottles of decent wine. It's so cheap, after all.
40 cases of Stella and a thousand Gauloises.

My greatest moment on gritstone was...
Never been. I only climb on wood.
An eliminate on Jerry's Traverse at the Plantation.
Making the first ascent of a bold route I obsessed about all last winter.
Squirming up a narrow chimney. Feet first.

Jacky Godoffe arrives at my local crag. I...
Burn him off on a load of Font 8a problems I have wired.
Get inspired, show him my projects and climb harder than ever before.
Wonder who the skinny foreign bloke is.
Offer to lead the skinny foreign bloke up some of the classic off-width cracks, thinking "I'll put him in his place".

Rubicon is...
Too easy for me now that I've done the lie-down start to The Press.
The greatest bouldering venue anywhere.
Not bad, I did Rubicon roof but then it started raining so I went to the caff.
A bolt-ridden attrocity, symptomatic of the disrespect climbers these days have for the rock.

My two week trip to Yosemite was spent...
Complaining that the sharp granite holds were ruining my skin, stopping me from training properly.
Falling off Midnight Lightning.
Climbing 4-star crack routes.
Recovering from stomach cramps after bingeing on pancakes at the all-you-can-eat brunch at the Ahwahnee.