Working some new problems
Dec. 10th, 2015 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylWith the bouldering room open again, I dropped in and met up with a bouldering buddy to work my way through some of the new problems. The set spanned a range of difficulties — the previous set felt like they started at font 5 and went up from there — with some intriguing challenges.
My favourite of the night was a tricky technical problem which involved cranking up on a sloper, popping to a dish and then moving out to an exposed finish on a smooth hold with almost nothing for the feet — the eventual solution was a smear and a heel hook, with hands edged up on to the finish for a careful few seconds to complete the send.
In the process of working one of the other problems, going for a dyno that was far more full-on than anything I'd normally try, I managed to catch and rip a thumbnail badly enough to cause it to start bleeding. I taped it up and carried on, making it through the rest of the session on endorphins but only too aware of quite how much I'm going to suffer for it over the next few days while it heals up...
My favourite of the night was a tricky technical problem which involved cranking up on a sloper, popping to a dish and then moving out to an exposed finish on a smooth hold with almost nothing for the feet — the eventual solution was a smear and a heel hook, with hands edged up on to the finish for a careful few seconds to complete the send.
In the process of working one of the other problems, going for a dyno that was far more full-on than anything I'd normally try, I managed to catch and rip a thumbnail badly enough to cause it to start bleeding. I taped it up and carried on, making it through the rest of the session on endorphins but only too aware of quite how much I'm going to suffer for it over the next few days while it heals up...
