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rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [community profile] disobey_gravity2010-12-10 09:22 am
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Glee to the world

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 fun; 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 this week's glee: Dave MacLeod on an E10 slab. Also, Kev Shields is more hardcore than you.

(Note: some people seem to have trouble getting the vid to play, so a kind person in the thread here has put it up for download.)
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[personal profile] wpadmirer 2010-12-11 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
My glee for today was climbing with Fred! We had a wonderful time. There were a bunch of new 5.8 routes in the gym for me to try. Though one of them defeated me by requiring mantling on a volume and I simply didn't have the power to do it by the time I tried the route. I'm going to try it again on Saturday.

Fortunately Fred gives great beta, so I was able to finish the other new 5.8 I tried. YAY!
rydra_wong: stick figure on an indoor climbing wall -- base image taken from the webcomic xkcd (climbing -- xkcd)

[personal profile] rydra_wong 2010-12-11 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
W00t! Sounds like you had lots of fun.

(Mantels r hard. For me, at least.)
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[personal profile] wpadmirer 2010-12-11 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Mantling is incredibly hard. Thus I'm determined to be able to do it. Strength training is on the agenda!
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2010-12-11 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Dips. Apparently dips are what we need in order to be able to mantel.

[community profile] lifting_heavy_things is a great comm for strength training, btw.

Though I need to get my shoulders sorted out and stabilized before I can do anything too hardcore in that direction.
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2010-12-11 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
I have glee because I am having an intense love affair with the red traverse, which is mean yet delightful.
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[personal profile] wpadmirer 2010-12-11 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Traverses defeat me on a regular basis. I can't imagine trying a mean one!
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2010-12-11 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all fingery and reachy, and tantalizingly just do-able (I've done all the moves at least once) enough that I can see being able to link it if I work at it.

And cool enough that if I can link it, I might keep doing it just for fun.
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