Funky hands from crack climbing

[Jerome]

Anyone get hands verging on bare knuckles boxers hands from lots of crack?

 

Jerome

[Mr._Natural]

yeah like my first season regularly, now only when i am in over my head.

[Fence_Sitter]

only on off-width

[Dru]

This will never happen if you have GOOD TECHNIQUE

Remember TAPE IS AID

[kitten]

My knees are black & blue..

OK so now they are shades of green and purle.

I need to improve my technique. Ya think?

Any advice???

[whirlwind]

knee pads?

[slaphappy]

kitten said:

My knees are black & blue..

OK so now they are shades of green and purle.

I need to improve my technique. Ya think?

Any advice???

 

Missionary versus doggystyle.

[kitten]

Yeah knee pads whould look REALLY cute.

ALthough - I think shorts might be out for me this summer.

[Bronco]

footwork Kitten, work on the footwork. Nice job on Easter Tower by the way!

[kitten]

Thanks!

I did get new shoes - now I need to trust them.

I climbed in Index with my husband for Mother's Day.

What a beautiful day! But there were so many damn people.

 

[RuMR]

Jerome said:

Anyone get hands verging on bare knuckles boxers hands from lots of crack?

 

Jerome

I think your funky hands are from the bat guano crax you've been jammin' them in!

[Jerome]

RuMR said:

Jerome said:

Anyone get hands verging on bare knuckles boxers hands from lots of crack?

 

Jerome

I think your funky hands are from the bat guano crax you've been jammin' them in!

 

Better than weeping sores on my fingertips from crimp-sharing with sport wankers.

 

 

Jerome

[RuMR]

Oh yeah? Well how are you getting the gunk out from under your fingernails?????? I guess the stuff worx well for gellin' yer hair, though!!!!!!!!!!

[texplorer]

I generally agree that good technique saves your hands. Of course when pushing your limits your form usually begins to wane. I guess the ultimate is to be able to climb hard enough so that your HANDS never get chewed up. Fingers on the otherhand are quite different. All climbers I know that climb the harder grades (5.12+) tape at least their fingers in some form or another at times. I even saw the rockstar Potter and his rockstar wife both taped up at the Creek this last spring. There is a macho thing on CC.com which I am a proponent member of, which will ridicule you for using tape but in reality I too tape in certain situations. If tape is aid then so are sticky rubber, chalk, compasses, watches, altimeters, and for that matter any kind of pro.

 

Note: I will disavow any knowledge of this post if you try to bring it up again in this or any other post.

-back to spraying.

[Szyjakowski]

Texplorer-You're right all those things are aid.

if you want to "Free climb" somethin

you gotta be ropeless and naked!

[Jerome]

RuMR said:

Oh yeah? Well how are you getting the gunk out from under your fingernails?????? I guess the stuff worx well for gellin' yer hair, though!!!!!!!!!!

 

Allah, in His munificence, has indeed granted me a bountiful crop of hair on my noggin. On others, it may be distributed along a mean tending towards a woolly mammoth, or, sadly, not at all.

 

Given my luck, many are persuaded to think I must be using some form of "gel". Not so, I say! Simply good design. My hair follicles leak Aveda Styling Gel. True. Really.

 

- J

[RuMR]

Jerome said:

RuMR said:

Oh yeah? Well how are you getting the gunk out from under your fingernails?????? I guess the stuff worx well for gellin' yer hair, though!!!!!!!!!!

 

Allah, in His munificence, has indeed granted me a bountiful crop of hair on my noggin. On others, it may be distributed along a mean tending towards a woolly mammoth, or, sadly, not at all.

 

Given my luck, many are persuaded to think I must be using some form of "gel". Not so, I say! Simply good design. My hair follicles leak Aveda Styling Gel. True. Really.

 

- J

 

Ahhh dude, you rule!! I'm off to yosemighty next week w/ John Fine and Jeremy...