I remember the first few times I went rock climbing, or for that matter the first few times I actually knew what I was doing, and seeing the best climbers in the gym beasting out the highest level climbs. Actually - more specifically I remember seeing them holding onto these tiny little pieces and thinking "how the hell is that even possible?!?"
Well last night, after about a year and a half of climbing, I reckon I've reached the stage where I actually think "shit that's a pretty friendly hold!!!" - which just makes me laugh!!! What seemed to be so horrible before now seems like an essential part of the puzzle, and more often than not, it is!
It's just really pleasing to get to this stage; yet I can't help but feel the same way for a lot of other pieces in general. Slopers confuse the crap out of me (my friend can happily use the 35 degree Slopers on the beast maker and do frenchies on them, yet I have no idea how he does it) - I'm struggling with the 25 degree ones, and there's still a lot of footwork that confuses me. Nonetheless it's good to be where I'm at and climbing is going nowhere but up on my life enthusiastic list :)
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Thursday 24 May 2012
Couple of Videos!
Absolutely amazing climber - Sascha DiGiulian, the first US woman ever to climb a 9A: Check this out:
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Training
Hey guys training logs will be up soon. Pretty pumped because I hit a milestone - can do l-hangs on doubles. All will be explained shortly :D
Saturday 19 May 2012
Last weeks trip to the mountains!
For some reason I must be stuck in a time sink; I have no idea why the video is labelled 14/05, when that was actually a monday... :\ so it must've been the 12th. No idea why my dodgy calendar has been mixing that up.
In any case, last saturday we went out to the mountains for a straight-up amazing experience. We went to Dam cliffs, and even though many seasoned climbers have told me that it's a fairly dangerous noob-area, I had a bucket of fun.
We made a video on youtube which you guys can check out here - but otherwise, a rough summary of the day goes something like this......
8am left syd, driving on L's, got two apple pies, drove into a ditch, got pulled out by a winch (amazing), got wet feet :(, fell into a river, then climbed some amazing climbs.
The ones we did were:
In any case, last saturday we went out to the mountains for a straight-up amazing experience. We went to Dam cliffs, and even though many seasoned climbers have told me that it's a fairly dangerous noob-area, I had a bucket of fun.
We made a video on youtube which you guys can check out here - but otherwise, a rough summary of the day goes something like this......
8am left syd, driving on L's, got two apple pies, drove into a ditch, got pulled out by a winch (amazing), got wet feet :(, fell into a river, then climbed some amazing climbs.
The ones we did were:
- A Tale of Two Cities (18)
- Sisters of Fatima (16)
- Envirodandal (19)
I also gotta say that it's pretty scary watching the lead climber go up.
On the agenda for things to do include learning how to do the anchoring. I also went lead climbing this last week but I haven't finished the course yet - and a writeup will go up in due course!
See you soon!
Tuesday 15 May 2012
... GET PSYCHED.....
.... What? A blog post about our blue mountains climbing trip soon? ... AND SOMETHING MORE... WHATTTttt? ......
Sunday 13 May 2012
Initiation!
HEY WORLD!
This is our official climming blog! Yes - we know the spelling is incorrect and it's meant to be that way for us; it's an in-joke of the entire bunch of us that climb. By no means do we profess to be the greatest climbers, but we've been in the sport since the start of 2011 and really loved every part of it.
As we're trying to improve and move our game outdoor, we decided to start a blog to track our progress towards the big outdoor walls. All of us are grad students so we're understandably a bit busy with other things, but we're making time to fit this in and make it a regular fixture for the rest of our days.
If you end up stalking us, that's great - leave us posts and let us know if you think we're terrible/great at climbing, whether you love/hate what we're doing, or if you want to get out with us! Either way, the purpose of this blog is twofold - to essentially document our progress through our rock-climbing ways, and to raise your awareness of how truly awesome this sport is.
Peace!
Lenn
This is our official climming blog! Yes - we know the spelling is incorrect and it's meant to be that way for us; it's an in-joke of the entire bunch of us that climb. By no means do we profess to be the greatest climbers, but we've been in the sport since the start of 2011 and really loved every part of it.
As we're trying to improve and move our game outdoor, we decided to start a blog to track our progress towards the big outdoor walls. All of us are grad students so we're understandably a bit busy with other things, but we're making time to fit this in and make it a regular fixture for the rest of our days.
If you end up stalking us, that's great - leave us posts and let us know if you think we're terrible/great at climbing, whether you love/hate what we're doing, or if you want to get out with us! Either way, the purpose of this blog is twofold - to essentially document our progress through our rock-climbing ways, and to raise your awareness of how truly awesome this sport is.
Peace!
Lenn
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