Friday glee is on the road

[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: Ashima Shiraishi goes bouldering in Colorado for the first time. And climbs V13, as she does.

Comments

[mongrelheart]

Late to the party as usual ;) That girl in the video is amazing! And she must be like, 12! Holy moly...

I have some glee to report: I was visiting my mom in Hawaii (where I'm from originally), and got a chance to check out a local gym called the Volcanic Rock Gym. The owner was super cool & even gave me some impromptu coaching. Some things that I learned: how to switch feet by stepping on top of the foot & sliding bottom foot out, & also how to roll your shoulder towards the wall to make gravity work in your favor... Hehe I'm sure there are words for these things. Anyway it was really fun & I was sooo stoked.

[rydra_wong]

And she must be like, 12!

She is, in fact, 12. And one of the top women boulderers in the world; at 10, she became one of the handful of women who've climbed V13.

This is why she has her own tag in the comm: http://disobey-gravity.dreamwidth.org/tag/ashima

[mongrelheart]

Hot dog! She is awesome! How inspiring :):):)