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 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.
ETA:
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)