Friday glee thinks this is going to be a very pretty film

[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: the second trailer for Life on Hold from Outcrop Films, due out on DVD/download April 2012.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Well, I'm climbing this week, which is good. The arthritis in my hands is acting up, though, and I did a 5.7 with pocket holds. VERY bad idea. I've had swollen knuckles ever since.

BUT, on the other hand, CLIMBING! Just on juggy holds. (grin)

[rydra_wong]

Yay climbing! And owww, pockets. They can be very tough on the fingers.

I often go for slabbiness if my hands are cranky.

[wpadmirer]

That makes sense. Unfortunately my gym only has one slab wall. I do SO love it, though!

[juliet]

The Arch is expanding (moving? it was not clear) to right round the corner from me! Thus making it way way easier for me to return to climbing in a few weeks.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ \o/ \o/

I will also use my tiny bit of insider knowledge to say OMFG IT'S GOING TO BE AMAAAAAZING THE TRAILER DIDN'T SHOW THE HALF OF IT.

[juliet]

I don't suppose yr tiny bit of insider knowledge also knows/is able to share whether it's an as-well-as the existing place or an instead-of? I was wondering!

am v v excited \o/

[wpadmirer]

YAY!

[rydra_wong]

Between making this post and making this comment:

I got my first 7a.

Mandatory disclaimers: indoors, top-roped, grades are an essentially subjective and meaningless construct -- but it made me very happy.

[wpadmirer]

Whoo-hoo! Congratulations!

[juliet]

AWESOME! I am v impressed :)

[ridicully]

Meaningless construct they may be, they can still be VERY COOL!
Conga Rats!

[emperor]

7a?!? Wow, you are hardcore! Well done :)

[rydra_wong]

See mandatory disclaimers! And it was one of those things where a route happens to play to your particular strengths -- in this case, bridge-y balance-y weird technique-y stuff, with the possibility of engineering a no-hands rest in the middle to make up for my total lack of endurance.

But it was really lovely to do.

[fadeaccompli]

Usually I climb V0s, when bouldering. If they're not on a nasty overhang, I can almost always get a V0 eventually. And then just recently, I finally beat a V1 for the first time.

On Wednesday, I spent eight or nine tries on working out a fiendishly tricky crux on a new V0+ at the gym... and finally sent it. It was a glorious moment of success. And on the same trip, I got to the last-but-one hold on a new V1, and finished another V1 in a "oops, I used one foothold that wasn't mine" sense. So...didn't send either, but I was getting a lot closer.

Friday, I went back and sent one of those V1s.

This morning, I went back and sent the other one.

It has been a good week in climbing.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ \o/ \o/ That is a week of great win.