Friday 26 October 2007

The training works

The Climbing works training wall is good. There are some good hard problems there. I went last night and had a good time climbing with Andy Harris, Neil Travers and Stu Littlefair.

Travs has started training again - which means double sessions three days on, two days off. He seems to be tres strong. Tres Strong Travs. Tres Strong Trev would be a better name.

The training wall is nice and short too. You could clip three bolts in bits of the comp wall and still get the fear. I would guess that climbing on the training wall at the works would stand you in better stead of getting up something outside. Crimps. Andy was tearing down, he offered that success on that wall requires different strengths to the school and the foundry. Whatever it is, he seems to have it.

I opened the mother of all splits even more. Its not sore under pressure, so probably ok to climb with tape.

I shall finish by saying how nice it was to see Mr Littlefair, a desperately underrated climber. Perhaps we should have a fanfare when he enters a room? I want to climb 8c route. But not enough to actually put the work in to do so.

4 comments:

pascal said...

8c route? Just do a link up at the school. I did something on there once, 7C up, down easy warm up, 7C up, down hard warm up, up 7B, down easy warm up. Just link up 4 or 4 7C's and you'll have 8c route. ;)

Paul Bennett said...

ha, i'd be interested to see what my circuit weighs in at in your mind...

pascal said...

9a. Is that alright? What is it again?

Paul Bennett said...

Jesus keith i'm taking that..you have made my life complete now i'll stick to vs trad for the rest of my life...or maybe go and live in venezuela, its inspirational dont you know ;).
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