Friday glee is watching the weather
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disobey_gravityThe 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 and Tim Emmett go sea-cliff climbing at Pembroke.
N.B. Feel free to post your glee in the comm on any day of the week. The Friday post is just to get the ball rolling.
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 and Tim Emmett go sea-cliff climbing at Pembroke.
N.B. Feel free to post your glee in the comm on any day of the week. The Friday post is just to get the ball rolling.
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Date: 2011-03-04 09:54 am (UTC)I have un-glee that it aggravated my tweaky tendons and I've been having to take it easy since then, but that will pass.
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Date: 2011-03-04 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-04 05:33 pm (UTC)For reference, here is my post from last summer where I swore I would never, ever want to do the finals of a comp.
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Date: 2011-03-04 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-05 12:04 pm (UTC)I have glee because I went climbing twice, and I defeated a V2 which I was struggling with mostly because I didn't have the nerve rather than for technical whatsit. (The pink one on the slab with the bridging.) It was especially pleasing because of *how* I defeated it; I spent about 5 min up there trying a similar move but with my feet on slightly different (easier) holds, to convince myself that I could do it. Still had to count myself in to get through it :) (and then struggled with it *again* on Friday -- it still just feels hard! will keep going...)
Also I solved another V2 (green one on the near corner of the overhang wall in the front) with a bit of hanging around up there & trying things.
Could not, however, get anywhere *near* the allegedly V2 routes in the new front room which I believe were set for the competition... :)
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Date: 2011-03-05 12:13 pm (UTC)(I am not doing anything exciting in it, but it gives a nice idea of the atmosphere.)
I defeated a V2 which I was struggling with mostly because I didn't have the nerve rather than for technical whatsit.
W00t! I really like working on that psychological edge sometimes, when you know you're physically capable of the move, you just have to be able to make it with absolute commitment.
I spent about 5 min up there trying a similar move but with my feet on slightly different (easier) holds, to convince myself that I could do it.
Yeah, that can be a very effective strategy. "If I can do it from here ..."
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Date: 2011-03-04 05:25 pm (UTC)So today I'm meeting with the gym manager and a woman shift manager to see if we can't figure out a time to set for them to climb each week when it will be women only!
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Date: 2011-03-04 06:02 pm (UTC)A bunch of the London walls have women-only drop-in sessions with an instructor on hand to offer tips, and they seem to be very popular.
The wall I go to started one, and on the first evening, the woman leading it was standing there in a state of shock because she'd expected maybe five or six women to turn up and got ... forty. They ended up shutting off an entire section of the wall for it.
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Date: 2011-03-04 10:22 pm (UTC)For the first time in a while, I have climbing glee; after the best part of a month with no climbing, I've been twice this week. Saturday was a bit meh - it was good to be climbing again, but I wasn't really on form (not surprisingly!). We did do some falling practice, though, which I think is valuable. Wednesday, though, was awesome. I don't know why, but I was just really on song. I lead two routes that have defeated me before (OK, only 5 and 5+, but), blasted up a 6a I'd not tried before such that my belayer commented "I liked how a couple of times you just disdained the handholds". Then, I actually tried the competition wall. It's been a thing of fear for me since I've been climbing here - nothing easier than 6a, and it's all overhanging, and goes higher than any other walls. I got 7 clips up one route before taking a big fall. Which is also awesome, because it meant I was climbing until I really couldn't go any further, rather than just panicing because I was above the last clip, which is often a problem I have on leads. Maybe I'm getting over my leading fear finally!
Err, sorry, babble. Wednesday's climbing just felt right.
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Date: 2011-03-04 10:50 pm (UTC)I love those sessions when it all comes together and flows. So mysterious why it happens one day for no discernible reason at all, when the previous time was all meh.
And rock on for taking on the competition wall and falling like that! I know what you mean, there's such a difference between falling because you've pushed to the very limit of your ability, and the sort of "Eh, can't do this, I'm just going to fall off now" fall. Which I am prone to.
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That vid is fun, but it didn't really give me any sense that they were doing hard climbing.
Clearly, you are now morally obliged to link some vids which do a better job of showing it, then. *g*
(Seriously, I'd love to see what other people's climbing vid bookmarks look like. Assuming I'm not the only one who collects them obsessively.)
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Date: 2011-03-05 08:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-05 09:18 am (UTC)