Glee tiem nao

[rydra_wong]

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: Dave MacLeod makes the ultimate sacrifice for a climbing project.

Comments

[tevere]

I turned up to my gym only to find they'd had a massive overhaul over the weekend and removed every single route I'd been working on! I nearly cried. BUT, then I climbed a few new similarly-graded problems, and felt accomplished. Also, my fingers are getting stronger-- my sitting starts have improved immeasurably! And I like the new discovery that I can jump for holds, catch them with my fingertips and actually stay there, rather than falling off into a sad little heap.

\o/

[rydra_wong]

Yay for stronger fingers! I love it when I suddenly notice my fingers have become stronger; it's like they've connected to the internet and downloaded the latest upgrade, and now I have Fingers 2.0 *g*.

[wpadmirer]

YAY! Sometimes a new route will really confirm that you are getting stronger. That's great!

[astridv]

Cool Youtube clip I found: This guy put a bouldering route at the ceiling of his house. Home Bouldering: Sofa route - 6a+ V2

[rydra_wong]

Heee! I was watching that this morning and it nearly ended up being the video link. *g*

[tevere]

Ahahaha, that's gold! Thanks for sharing the awesome.

OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

[rydra_wong]

Today I have glee because I just found out that the V13 barrier in women's bouldering has officially fallen -- Angie Payne's become the first American woman (and possibly the first woman worldwide) to climb a confirmed V13.

Video!

Re: OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

[tevere]

Holy fuck, what's she holding on to? There's nothing there!

Her intensity is just... man. She took two days of attempts to get that done? I think most people would've given up and gone home.

Re: OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

[rydra_wong]

She rocks so hard. And yeah, I love seeing her so focused and aggressive about getting it done.

Though it's actually not unusual to spend several days or more on an ultra-hard project -- I think Dave MacLeod probably holds the obsessiveness record with something in the region of a hundred days, albeit spread over several years.

(I've been having a little MacLeod fest in the last few days. I like the fact that one of the UK's top climbers is such an unassuming dork.)