marc_leclerc

I heard that, two! PWND

and laybacking is the technique of no technique.... except for certain tips/corner cracks

Dude.. layback like 15 ft and there is a good foot edge out left... stem off that and start jamming. Its tight hands but there are nice contrictions.

I realized that pretty quickly.... hence im not borrowing money to climb a 7000m peak...

Musta been if you needed to climb without yer shirt Being shirtless gives poeple all sorts of superpowers... most of my hard sends are shirtless.

I dont think sponsorship is bad... but it can be pretty gay at times. Like some fat dumbass who sucks at climbing getting granted 50 grand to get hauled up Everest by some Sherpa who gets no credit .. all to supposedly help people with dyslexia. (example... not a true story.. as far as I kow) Or I recently saw an ad in a magasine saying to buy a rope becasue it was 'the right rope for Chris' and had a pic of Sharma in the background using the rope. It outright saying... use this rope because some strong media whoring climber poses for a pic. My Goodness But there are sponsors who give gear to young climbers with potential.. who couldn't afford to buy the stuff (gear is expensive) so they can have fun climbing and improving their skills. Thats cool IMO. these sponsors are not getting a lot in return but are just helping people out to be nice guys...

I bet he accidentally let it fly away and is hiding cuz he's scared he'll be in shit with his Dad now...

I can do muscle ups but not 5 in a row... I was just wondering what you had to say. I have friends who are really strong but cannot do a muscle up, I agree that some if it is co-ordination and technique....

So in other words... he fell out?

I hope hes not still in that plywood box Watching the vid I am starting to get the feeling that this is going be be tragic....

in the live video it seems that it has crash landed somewhere....

I have a question: How many of you can do muscle ups on bars... and how many pullups could you do when you did your first muscle up.

Tamara.. I thought you would submit this one: You always talk about how you like it...

cool beans!

definitely the badass sandbagger....

When they are in good condition.... you can't set a date ona route... like this route is gonnabe good on the 14th of December next year for goodness sake. You have to wait and pay attention to many factors and then decide when you feel that the route is in good enough conditions for you to climb it.

Where were you?

This is gonna get pretty bad I think...

aha... nevermind my comment on your TR

any pics of Colfaz North Face?

your concience will tell you if it was aid or not.... I had this problem on a hard fingercrack where the best pro for the crux was a nut in a good fingerlock. the only other pro without the nut was a scetchy purple metolius in a flare. I placed the nut but when I used the jam my fingers touched it lightly.. I didn't care because without the nut my fingers would still be perfectly jammed, just 1/8 of an inch lower.... but if I made a shitty jam good by resting my fingers on my gear I would know in my heart that I cheated and just go ithout the protection, or better yet, place the gear when I am a move above that hold and place the gear down at my waist wich is easier anyways.

You know that the issue is not that people have been staying away from it it is that people have been trying and failing! sooo tue But Ive been thinking I may be able to get some Rp's and stuff behind that flake... Ive been seriously contemplating making an all trad ascent, or at least having a look at the gea rpossibilities on Rappel.

I'm working on front levers at the moment.I can do them and hold them with my knees bent so that my thighs are at a 90 degree and to my body and my lower legs are paralell to my body. From that position I can hold it and do pull-ups. Do you guys have any tips or excersizes I can do in order to build the strenght to extend my legs into a full froint lever?

WOW! Thats ridiculous..... what a red-neck Mom 'I tried to teach him to use my shotgun' LOL But he appears to have some sick skillz....

Yeah... thanks for letting me get on it! I totally botched the first two moves and thought the attempt was screwed already but I managed to switch hands at the first bolt and continue up to the last bolt before the ledge. I usually struggle with this clip and fall clipping but I managed to get set up really well and clipped okay, I guess it was all in the feet. and the last couple moves I usually attempted fairly dynamic but this timeI was in the 'sending zone' and wasn't about to just flail towards the next hold... so I locked off owith my fingertips just jammed behind the flake and did a big strenous reach toa better lock and I was done.... just some 5.8'sh climbing up the fingercrack to the top! That route is at least 3 stars IMo... the line is so nice up that flake!