Friday glee brings slate-y funtiemz

[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.

N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.

To enhance this week's glee: 15 mins of slate action from Pete Robins and Nic Sellars (N.B.: this is one of the mini-films from Hard XS, so if you enjoy it, please consider supporting climbing filmmakers by lobbing some cash their way: it's a nifty film and you can buy the DVD here, or rent or buy it for download here).

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I'm climbing this weekend with two friends I haven't climbed with in over two months. That's my glee for this week! I love them both, and have missed climbing with them.

[rydra_wong]

Oh, yay! It must be very nice to get back together with them again. Hope you have a good weekend!

[rydra_wong]

I have glee because I have finally wrested my Whipplesnaith t-shirt from the clutches of the Central London Parcelforce Depot.

Also, I have made really excellent progress with my current nemesis, and will still be pleased with that even if it gets re-set before I send it.

And I am sewing some new climbing shorts.

[emperor]

I have that book! In the original edition, not the modern re-print! It was a wedding present from some awesome friends :-)

[rydra_wong]

Those are some seriously awesome friends!

[fadeaccompli]

I got to go to the south gym where all the belaying stuff is this week. Yay! (I do a lot more bouldering mostly because I can go alone, not because I prefer it.) Also at the south gym: a free yoga class that turned out to be more brutal than the actual climbing. Who knew that moving slowly between simple positions for an hour could be that painful and exhausting?

[rydra_wong]

Who knew that moving slowly between simple positions for an hour could be that painful and exhausting?

*raises hand*

Ooooh, me, me! I knew!

*g* Yoga can kick your arse. But it's an excellent complement to climbing, and a free class sounds like a fine thing to have.

(In case it's of interest, btw, there's a yoga comm at sun_salutation.)

[fadeaccompli]

The climbing gym offers two free yoga classes a week, and it does seem like a good combo! ...but good lord, I wish they offered some sort of proto-class for utter newbies, because I can't do half the stuff in the basic class anyway.

Proto-class, you can haz

[rydra_wong]

Possibly of use -- I did a linkspam on free online resources (videos etc.) for yoga newbies:

http://sun-salutation.dreamwidth.org/16427.html

Re: Proto-class, you can haz

[fadeaccompli]

Oo! Thanks for the link.

[emperor]

I think this week's glee was probably the granite quarry climbing I snuck late into last week's post. But I went climbing yesterday, and some things I'd struggled up before felt nice this time, so that's good.

Alas, no climbing for me for a couple of weeks now. Well, unless I get /really/ twitchy...

[rydra_wong]

Yay for getting in some good climbing before the drought?

Well, unless I get /really/ twitchy...

It's when I start eye-ing up public buildings that I know it's getting to be a problem ...