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Tips, tricks & jiggery pokery in the climbing game

ajfclark
4-Oct-2011
5:43:24 PM
On 3/10/2011 Beryllium wrote:
>What are people using for their hands?

There's a whole thread about that here: http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?Action=DisplayTopic&ForumID=1&MessageID=26606&PagePos=0&Sort=&Replies=57&MsgPagePos=0

Cool Hand Lock
4-Oct-2011
9:02:00 PM
1. When trying to send a new route. Arrange a time for your mates to come along and try. Get a different mate to go with you a little bit early and when the others turn up say "I already sent it".

2. Be a pussy. Put in dog bolts.

3. Dog on some other fags dog bolts.

4. Top rope the shit out of a route. Do a crappy job on bolting it. Then lead it and tell everyone how ace and extreeme you are.

5. Bolt someone elses trad line. With a slight variation. And write up a new route.

6. Buy every climbing DVD eva, buy 400 frozen pizzas. Tell everyone your going to Yosemite for 2 months. Sit in blacked out lounge and watch other people hurting themselves. Then tell everyone how awsome Yosemite was and you were. But some f---er stole your cammera.

7. Buy a rack. Leave it in some dirt. Remove after 20 years. Tell all the young climbers how it was back in your day. When you were cranking. How you "floated it". "You must remember to Levitate"

8. Ask if your still good looking.

9. Marry a formerly good climber. Live off their reputation.

10. Make out with some hairy lipped Tasmainian for a month and claim you were in Yosemite.

11. Put up a new line. Aid the hard moves and tell everybody that's how it was done back in your day. Even when others were cranking 8 grades harder clean in your day.

12. Crap on about it on chockstone.


sbm
2-Nov-2011
3:03:00 PM
When seconding, once the leader has put you on belay, yell out "CLIMBING!", and then tactfully wait on the ground doing bugger all for about 30 seconds.

This is the only way to get a lazy leader to take enough slack to stop you from hitting the ground with rope stretch, if you come off of the first couple moves.
tariadamar
2-Nov-2011
5:33:37 PM
i would have to agree with that i love good rope tention when doing the first moves. climbing in a sink hole is even more fun when it is a 3m jump to the first hold.
Olbert
2-Nov-2011
5:59:45 PM
When going on a long (read 6 or more months) with a partner:
-make sure you get up well after your partner, that way he has time to do morning chores and you don't.

-get yourself an iPhone or iPod, or something you can do whilst sitting on the crapper, that way when finish your three minutes of crapping you can spend 45 minutes playing a game on your iPod

-make sure your bed creaks and squeaks whenever you move (if your in a two bed camper) that way, every time you role over they wake up.

-when you and your partner get a free shirt each that can only be sent to an American address and you happen to be visiting an American friend of yours, don't inform your partner of the address even though he has nowhere to get it sent. It's much better that it be sent to a Yosemite post office that turns out not to exist.


IdratherbeclimbingM9
18-Nov-2011
11:01:44 AM
Ripped off another thread, without permission from the poster!


On 17/11/2011 mikllaw wrote:
>-Gear comes out more often than it pulls out. I generally put in doubles or triple pieces when I'm in a good position.
>-Sometimes I place 2 wires in the same placement with a short sling on the secure piece and a longer sling on the strong but insecure piece.
>-If there is much rope weight or drag, moving past a piece can pull it nearly horizontal, I either climb differently or add a sling.
>-'Clarking' a nut is fine so long as it's not deep in a thin crack.
>-I had an awesome long dong piton with enough weight to plonk out most pieces, but lost it and have a 'modern' nut tool, not so good.
>-With poor pieces I sometimes hang a long sling on an insecure piece with a few heavy bits of gear on it, then clip the sling to the rope with a long draw. If you clip the weight direct to the piece and the rope movement makes it move, say, 50 mm the piece may come out. If that 50mm of movement is at the end of a long sling, the movement at the nut is much less.



And from the same thread ... Words of wisdom from Macca...



IdratherbeclimbingM9
7-Oct-2015
11:21:52 AM
Thread necromancy (bump) due this being a slow day on chocky, and it may gather good informational replies from a new audience...

pmonks
7-Oct-2015
1:36:35 PM
Lesson: YER GUNNA DIE!!!1

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