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Slash and sandbag grades 14-Nov-2012 At 4:06:13 PM pecheur

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On 14/11/2012 shortman wrote:
>On 14/11/2012 pecheur wrote:
>
>>Offwidths shouldn't have a special grade, however something like Veni
>>Vedi Vici (17) at Werribee is offwidth for me but if you have bigger
>fists
>>it's purely a fist jam, and a piece of cake. That being said even doing
>>it mainly with arm bars it wasn't too bad, just need bigger gear ...
>>
>
>This thing is like a hand crack for me. Fists and armbars!?!

Hmm if you think you climb No 4 Camelots (the dog leg bit) as a hand crack I can now understand why you can't climb "hand crack" :P

>>On Melbourne Cup weekend at Araps I tried Red Parrot Chasm (11) for the
>>first time which is a true chimney. My two gym expat partners couldn't
>>get more than half way up on second and they climb much harder than that
>>on face climbs.
>
>WTF?!?

Yeah I was a little surprised too, I found it quite fun.