Bouldering harder
Mar. 11th, 2016 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylWhat was supposed to have been a gentle afternoon of auto-belay routes turned into a proper bouldering session after I bumped into KM and in keeping with my new resolution to try more hard stuff, allowed myself to get talked into trying a few things at the upper end of my range.
The surprise success was a 6c+ route on the roof which I became interested in after realising that the final move wasn't nearly as burly as I'd thought. (I said I wasn't sure I could make the move; KM said, "With forearms like yours, that's just not true!", so I gave it a try and found it was easily within my abilities) The crux, which involved what looked like a very long reach out and back with the left hand, took a little longer when I realised it needed a dynamic move. After a couple of tries — most of which involved working my feet into the right places to be able to push off with enough force — I was able to latch the hold and push through, by which point I wasn't fresh enough to manage the last couple of moves, but I feel like I've basically got the problem down and should be able to send it next time.
I also worked a couple of projects and tried some new harder problems, including on that I wanted to be able to solve statically rather than simply throwing for a unpleasantly sharp little crimp — it felt like it should have been possible to put yourself in balance and just sit on one foot, move up to a small pinch, and stand up for the next hold — but alas, initial results were unsuccessful.
All in all, a pretty successful afternoon...
The surprise success was a 6c+ route on the roof which I became interested in after realising that the final move wasn't nearly as burly as I'd thought. (I said I wasn't sure I could make the move; KM said, "With forearms like yours, that's just not true!", so I gave it a try and found it was easily within my abilities) The crux, which involved what looked like a very long reach out and back with the left hand, took a little longer when I realised it needed a dynamic move. After a couple of tries — most of which involved working my feet into the right places to be able to push off with enough force — I was able to latch the hold and push through, by which point I wasn't fresh enough to manage the last couple of moves, but I feel like I've basically got the problem down and should be able to send it next time.
I also worked a couple of projects and tried some new harder problems, including on that I wanted to be able to solve statically rather than simply throwing for a unpleasantly sharp little crimp — it felt like it should have been possible to put yourself in balance and just sit on one foot, move up to a small pinch, and stand up for the next hold — but alas, initial results were unsuccessful.
All in all, a pretty successful afternoon...
