*does the dance of glee*

[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 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: this fabulous half-hour silent film about Sheffield climbers in the 1940s. Admire the skills and nerve it took to climb with hemp ropes and tricouni-nailed boots! Ogle the beautiful gritstone! Speculate on why the film keeps cutting back to that supercilious-looking ram!

Comments

Ball, rolling

[rydra_wong]

I have great glee because I got the 6c on the roof, and the red traverse! Operation Develop Some Fucking Stamina Already seems to be making progress!

Re: Ball, rolling

[emperor]

6c? Good stuff!

Re: Ball, rolling

[rydra_wong]

*beams bashfully*

I've been bouldering-only up until now, but now the Arch has this amazing extended roof. Because the problems on it are 14-18 metres long, they've decided to give them sports grades instead of bouldering grades.

And I'd decided anyway that I really need to work on developing power-endurance, so ...

Re: Ball, rolling

[wpadmirer]

YAY! Congratulations!

Re: Ball, rolling

[rydra_wong]

Next up, the extended start to the 6c and the YELLOW traverse. *g*

(Or at least some preliminary playing around to figure out if either of those is even vaguely possible for me.)

I'm really enjoying having big projects right now.

[emperor]

S and I snuck in a short (1h45) session yesterday between work and our differing social engagements. I was so-so: managed a 6a+ I'd not tried before, but made a meal of a 5+ on the same panel. I think my glee this week comes from how much S is improving - she's not been coming climbing for very long, but is really getting the idea of using her legs more, and getting up routes that used to defeat her as a result.

[rydra_wong]

Yay! It's lovely when you can help someone else click on a bit of technique like that.

[wpadmirer]

That is very cool.

[wpadmirer]

My climbing glee was this: Today is the first day of my Christmas vacation. I climbed with Fred this morning, and worked hard on the 5.8 with the damn mantle move in it. Still didn't make it, but I made all the moves up to that SO much stronger than before, I'm massively encouraged. Did two other new routes, a 5.6 and a 5.7 and flashed both. Cool. Best way EVER to start a vacation.

[rydra_wong]

In some ways, I find that one of the most satisfying things, when I don't necessarily get a problem/route in a session but I know I've worked really really hard on it and made progress.

It's not either "I can do it easily" or "I can't do it" -- I can feel that I'm putting my all into it and my effort is making a difference. If that makes sense.

And yay vacation!