Friday post of glee
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The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.
It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had a good time; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big.
Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.
To enhance the glee this week: free climbing documentaries! Messner (about the great mountaineer) and Beyond Gravity (featuring Lynn Hill and baby!Katie Brown, among others) can be watched online at Snag Films.
It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had a good time; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big.
Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.
To enhance the glee this week: free climbing documentaries! Messner (about the great mountaineer) and Beyond Gravity (featuring Lynn Hill and baby!Katie Brown, among others) can be watched online at Snag Films.
To get the ball rolling
Date: 2010-10-08 04:53 pm (UTC)(Also, I'm working on a V4 roof problem which has some exceedingly badass moves. I still haven't been able to link it, but every time I do a sequence it makes me feel like a superhero.)
Re: To get the ball rolling
Date: 2010-10-11 11:54 am (UTC)(which V4 roof problem, OOI? I really should start doing roof problems in the attempt to become a bit less painfully weak...)
Re: To get the ball rolling
Date: 2010-10-11 12:03 pm (UTC)which V4 roof problem
The swirly one where you hang off the lip of the hole in the big volume.
(OOI="out of interest"?)
Re: To get the ball rolling
Date: 2010-10-12 02:41 pm (UTC)yep!
I saw someone staring at that one this morning. Then he carefully brushed all the spare chalk off the hole. Then he stared at it a bit more :)
I spent my half hour failing to climb assorted V2s. Dammit.
Re: To get the ball rolling
Date: 2010-10-12 09:14 pm (UTC)Btw, I rec having a go at the pale blue V2 on the wave wall, if you haven't already. I found it friendlier than the V2 on the prow which you've done (especially if you know that the small round blobby volume is in).
Re: To get the ball rolling
Date: 2010-10-13 10:06 am (UTC)Today I was suffering from having climbed yesterday as well & thus ARMS FALLING OFF.
(Also I cannot AT ALL work out the white V2 on the wall on the non-wave side from the prow.) (but I did sort-of do the blue bridgey V2 in the back left corner of that side)
Re: To get the ball rolling
Date: 2010-10-13 10:47 am (UTC)That one is weird and tricky, I seem to recall. Lots of grabbing the arete.
Yay for the blue bridgey one!
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Date: 2010-10-08 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-08 08:57 pm (UTC)Today I got further up the route than ever before and only fell off because I went for a hold that simply won't work for me. But I was unphased by my position on the wall! YAY! I figure next time I'll get it.
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Date: 2010-10-08 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-09 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-09 09:44 am (UTC)http://disobey-gravity.dreamwidth.org/12303.html
But what
If the issue is that your forearms feel swollen and burning and your fingers have stopped being able to grip things, don't worry, that's completely normal. *g*
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Date: 2010-10-09 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-09 12:18 pm (UTC)As your muscles adjust and get stronger, you'll be able to climb for longer before getting to that point. I've found that warming up slowly also helps a lot.
But if you hear climbers talking about being "pumped", that's what it means.
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Date: 2010-10-09 12:38 pm (UTC)And, thanks for the lingo tip. *g*
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Date: 2010-10-09 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-09 07:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-09 07:34 pm (UTC)Also I made it all the way up the V2 on the prow that I've been working on since last week! And got very slightly further on another V2 (on the wave bit) and that damn V1 out by the front. Yay.
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Date: 2010-10-09 08:15 pm (UTC)\o/ Was that that your first V2 off the slab? If so, extra congratulations!
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Date: 2010-10-11 11:54 am (UTC)