Climbing with L and A
Apr. 14th, 2016 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylFinally managed to find a slot in my schedule to go climbing with L&A. They both had to go through the assement to get signed off and L said afterwards that they tested him pretty thoroughly; they told him he was making quite a few mistakes and he might like to go off and practice to which L said he thought, "But I couldn't tell what I was doing wrong..." But it was obviously enough because we surived.
I discovered that I already knew A's friend from work fairly well. I thought there was a decent chance of it when she said that he was a regular, but it wasn't until he arrived that I was able to match the name to the face.
The climbing was good, with a genral focus on easy stuff. I made a bit of a mess of a 6a that seemed tough for its grade — I suspect it had got harder as the slopey holds had been dirtied up. I also repeated G's trick route which starts with a huge, burly pull-up and smear followed by a mantle — the clever bit is the realisation that it's a mantle and not a dynamic throw to reach the second hold.
There were new problems up in one of the bouldering rooms and the 10 degree board had been reset with a couple of big volumes and a whole load of circuit holds. I gave it a quick go while I was warming up and found enough of the right sort of holds to practice open-handed grips and to create some interesting pinch circuits. I've been meaning to work on my pinch strength for a while, but I always found the holds on the 40 board far too tough to even get started; whereas on the ten I found that I was able to do the front-on without too much difficulty.
With the first room busy with people checking out the new stuff, we finished up with a little bit in the second room, where I bumped into a handful of friends projecting stuff. Both L&A did a few of the problems — oddly, the easier ones feel a great deal more awkward than the harder problems — although A was almost flattened when N peeled off rather unexpected and didn't land terribly well.
The evening was a success and we're all determined to do it again when work schedules allow.
I discovered that I already knew A's friend from work fairly well. I thought there was a decent chance of it when she said that he was a regular, but it wasn't until he arrived that I was able to match the name to the face.
The climbing was good, with a genral focus on easy stuff. I made a bit of a mess of a 6a that seemed tough for its grade — I suspect it had got harder as the slopey holds had been dirtied up. I also repeated G's trick route which starts with a huge, burly pull-up and smear followed by a mantle — the clever bit is the realisation that it's a mantle and not a dynamic throw to reach the second hold.
There were new problems up in one of the bouldering rooms and the 10 degree board had been reset with a couple of big volumes and a whole load of circuit holds. I gave it a quick go while I was warming up and found enough of the right sort of holds to practice open-handed grips and to create some interesting pinch circuits. I've been meaning to work on my pinch strength for a while, but I always found the holds on the 40 board far too tough to even get started; whereas on the ten I found that I was able to do the front-on without too much difficulty.
With the first room busy with people checking out the new stuff, we finished up with a little bit in the second room, where I bumped into a handful of friends projecting stuff. Both L&A did a few of the problems — oddly, the easier ones feel a great deal more awkward than the harder problems — although A was almost flattened when N peeled off rather unexpected and didn't land terribly well.
The evening was a success and we're all determined to do it again when work schedules allow.
