Friday glee has rolled-up jeans

[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: Jordan Buys on Cry Freedom, 8b+

Comments

[astridv]

I finally got the details of the wall run right, I think. Okay, at a very modest hight (garage roof) and I skip the topout because people tend to be cranky if they see someone climb on top of their garages. (Jumping up at a ledge earns you enough suspicious looks though once you tell them it's for training I've had no problems.)

Anyway, I figured out an important piece of the puzzle which I'd not considered so far, which is that I need to focus my attention entirely on hitting the wall with my foot, and completely ignore the grabbing the ledge part because that's an automatism anyway. Once I started to really focus on the proper spot on the wall while running at it, it became much easier.

But I'm never gonna manage the parkour-style topout... way too difficult. I prefer the climber's style where you get your heel on the ledge and haul your body over. Not as elegant but hey, whatever works. :)

[wpadmirer]

Wow. Impressive!

[rydra_wong]

ZOMG! I dream that one day I'll be able to do a wall run.

[astridv]

It's not as impossible as it looks like. Still tricky because there are so many details to think of within such a short period of time, but once you know what common mistakes to avoid it becomes a lot easier.

I found this tutorial very helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNNEhjxg-w0
(except they say to put the foot waist-high; most tutorials say hip-high which I find much easier.)

There are a couple more YT tutorials like this one.