[moose]

Whilst in Leeds it was always pebble wall!

that's the monkey on my back - I know what to do, and I'm pretty sure I'm capable of it... but I just can't get it to go.  Think it's a mental problem - knacked my hip falling from it a while ago and have since had trouble commiting to the final stand-up.  Helpful types telling me about the "spiral leg fractures" they've witnessed on the problem doesn't really help either! Postponing further attempts for until I can get a spotter and more than one mat.

[grimer]

word to that brother.

boulder problems are human beings too.
chipping is murder.

So what's fist jamming then?

[dave]

GBH!

[cofe]

pr0n

[Gad]

The Fin at Gibb Tor, bailed from the top once and thought "that'll go next time". Will it Bollocks! I've climbed harder than its supposed grade of V5 and no matter how many goes i have i can't touch it. Definately some sort psychological block.......... or maybe witchcraft :evil:

[moose]

I blame a gypsy curse... placed on me as a youngster when I refused to buy some pegs .... strange that it took so long to take its shape.  Does the Gresham run any workshops on nullifying malign super-natural influences? (2 days, £600, sacrificial beasts not included) ?

[Percy B]

For me, my nemesis of about fifteen years was El Poussah at Isatis in Font which I finally did a couple of years ago, but my God I had a torrid time dispatching that one. What was even worse was that everybody assumed it would suit me down to the ground having grim slopers (or Percy Jugs as Mr Overfield describes all slopey holds) and some very camp footwork for the weak! I managed to do pretty much all the other sevens at Isatis in between attempts over the 15 years mind, so its not all bad......

However, I don't think I have ever struggled so hard to do one particular problem - especially a 6c+! Having climbed a few eights taking no more than a day or two max for each, it just proves that the grades a meaningless.

My British nemesis is still Great White at Curbar - the sharks tooth block underneath has biten my arse several times now after I've failed to hold the break and fallen on to it. The last time it pretty much 'smashed my back-doors in' as the Moffatt would say

[blockhead]

Thought I didnt have any... then someone mentioned powerband... bollocks. How many times do you fail on the last move before you take your ball home?

...Oh and deliverance. 2" short on the jump 8 years ago, 2" short today. And about 3" short on the short mans beta - how does that work?

[a dense loner]

don't talk to me about el poussah. i can't hold the holds, at all!!! wtf is all that about.
in good ole blighty, i am constantly amazed at how many probs i've still not done. i keep fallin off the last move of anything n saying it's definately on next go. having said that i cannot touch the classics like piss, west side n deliverence :cry:

[SA Chris]

Bastardwell bastard new jerusalem bastard. I am now convinced that no-one over 6 ft can do the proper start. Can I get off the ground, can i bollocks. I make a point of avoiding going anywhere near it now.

[Johnny Brown]

There was me thinkin I didn't really have any, but I guess the big one is staring me in the face. That big arete at the plantation - three years since I started properly trying it, two years since getting to the last move.
Keep doin the yoga I guess eh, dense?:wink:

Before that Blockbuster at caley. I had to move to leeds in the end. Good when you finally do 'em tho - I must have hung off the top jug fior a good ten minutes just milking it

[c.j.d.]

Brad Pit.

[SA Chris]

Good when you finally do 'em tho - I must have hung off the top jug fior a good ten minutes just milking it

I was like that with Pebble Wall at Almscliff; tried it on and off for about 2 years, using assorted crap sequences. Finally did it, and could do it every time for about a year.

Cant get anywhere on it now though. :cry:

[Stu Littlefair]

Is anyone else getting a peverse ego boost from being able to lap other peoples nemesi?

Just me then  :roll:

I'd better include Brad Pit, as I could do it, and now I can't, despite being 10 times more flexible. Bizarre. After that it would probably be the ace, or sweet thing, given that I'm currently exactly one inch short of doing either, and have been for about 90 years.

p.s Is everyone trying a different el poussah to me?

[Johnny Brown]

Sweet thing and Brad Pit are piss. Who the f*ck are you? :wink:

[Stu Littlefair]

Sweet thing is like the ace - a piss start with a stupid, fucking, gay-ass, pointless, discriminating, reachy, piece-of-shit, arse-bandit last move.

Sorry. Caught me on a bad day.

[Bonjoy]

I know. It's all very well tall climbers like Katz doing it....

[cofe]

Sweet thing is like the ace - a piss start with a stupid, fucking, gay-ass, pointless, discriminating, reachy, piece-of-shit, arse-bandit last move.

reachy?



just bustin your balls son.

[Stu Littlefair]

Ho fucking Ho. Katz has longer arms. Or a longer dick, or something like that anyway.

 

[Johnny Brown]

Don't think it's just a reach either. Making the distance is easy - it's making the thing stick that's the hard bit.

[uptown]

Ok so I do believe in the odd nemesis, however, the camera never lies BonJoy!



My video shows you static at this point for 1.25 seconds!
May I suggest a higher left foothold and a comfy old set of shoes to exorcise that demon!

[a dense loner]

are we on about the arms there?

[Johnny Brown]

Jeez not still usin that old foothold?

[dave]

may i suggest a higher right foothold, and take the left foot off!

[Bonjoy]

Tried all manner of footholds, my hunch is that Uptown is right. The future is the chickenhead.