[SA Chris]

Good effort Neil, I remember doing Berezina and being well chuffed. Its a font rite of passage.

When I wer' but a youth.

[Adam Lincoln]

i've never understood why people do that method, that first move is piss with a heel on. its just the rest after the match thats nails.

Really? I always knew about the toe, and was trying the heel method this time. I couldn't touch it. Gave the toe a couple of goes, in dragons, i might add, and a couple of goes later it was done. The top is a bit of a non issue i though?

Do you use the heel on the toe hold? Thats how Doyle did the first move, and to be fair it did look piss. In dragons too. I saw some frenchies using a hold for their heel slighly more in on a bit of a rubbish hold. Neither worked for me.  And certainly not the jump way! A La Neil....

[SA Chris]

heal method

I didn't even know you were unwell!

[Adam Lincoln]

heal method

I didn't even know you were unwell!

Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel
Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel Heel

Shouldn't happen again now! 

[Paul B]

i've never understood why people do that method, that first move is piss with a heel on. its just the rest after the match thats nails.

the heel appeared to be a million miles to the right; jumping seemed like the way for me  I just need to be better at swinging about on slopers.

[dave]

i've never understood why people do that method, that first move is piss with a heel on. its just the rest after the match thats nails.

Really? I always knew about the toe, and was trying the heel method this time. I couldn't touch it. Gave the toe a couple of goes, in dragons, i might add, and a couple of goes later it was done. The top is a bit of a non issue i though?

Do you use the heel on the toe hold? Thats how Doyle did the first move, and to be fair it did look piss. In dragons too. I saw some frenchies using a hold for their heel slighly more in on a bit of a rubbish hold. Neither worked for me.  And certainly not the jump way! A La Neil....

i spent a session once doing the toe thing, hitting the hold but a bit too fast, kinda almost holding it but not quite, losing skin left right and centre. then one go I tried the heel for some reason and could virtually static the move, could get the sloper and adjust on it and everything.

I've got up matched on the slopers several times and not been able to finish it. just seems to get into slopey grovelsville. granted that it doesn't help its neve good nick when i'm on it.

[Adam Lincoln]

Luckily it was mint for me. Pitty the rest of the trip wasn't!

[Doylo]

Nice neil.For me the heel was bomber when it stuck. The swing however was particularly draining and the match defo the crux.

[Somebody's Fool]

Did you do it in the end Chris?

Your 'low percentage' heel was definitely a no percentage heel in my case.

[Doylo]

Nah i was too knackered at the end to get it done. My breakthrough into sloper climbing will have to wait for now. Probably never get it as mint as that ever again either.

[Nibile]

Nice neil.For me the heel was bomber when it stuck. The swing however was particularly draining and the match defo the crux.

exactly the same for me. i'll try neil's beta next time.

[The Sausage]

Can't see the vid, but i too thought the effort of getting the heel on was far greater than just pulling on and going straight up with the right for the first sloper. I trust nobody here has been using the french start 'method'...

[Somebody's Fool]

Why not? When in Rome and all that...

[Jim]

I can't touch the first move on this, jump, heel,heal, toe anything. I recon when I do this move its in the bag tho

[neil h]

I can't touch the first move on this, jump, heel,heal, toe anything. I recon when I do this move its in the bag tho

you got a long way to go then jim 

[a dense loner]

i can see it now, la jimezina

nice work neil

[neil h]

i can see it now, la jimezina

nice work neil

 

cheers,

by the way chris is here waiting for you to arrive

[Blunk]

yes yes, I did one of the forests most classic lines today berizina

get in

Proper Bo.   

Or in France, Propaire Beau.

[andy_e]

Is it La berezina or l'abbe Resina?

[The Sausage]

As far as I'm aware, it was originally L'abbe Resina (which makes sense). I have an old(ish) guide (written by Jacky Godoffe), and it's named L'abbe Resina/La Berezina (i think... would have to check). Personally, I like to think of it as L'abbe (with an acute accent on the e) Resina.

[Duncan Disorderly]

Effort Neil.... Livin in the forest is obviously doing you good

See you in April.

D

[GCW]

I'm with you there Joe.  In my guide (Escalade à Bleau Tome 2, COSIROC 2001) it's in as l'abbé Résina.  Makes more sense, not sure when the name morhped.

[The Sausage]

Does it get called La Berezina in the real thing? There's no way I could bring myself to sit through it again to check, but somebody out there must know.

[Somebody's Fool]

Joe. Is your problem with The Real Thing that you sit there watching it thinking 'Yeah, I'm the man. Look at that jumper. Yeah! Look at me absolutely pissing Hypotheses etc etc and so on.'

And then about half an hour in, you're hit with the crushing realisation that it's not actually you. I can see why you wouldn't want to put yourself through that again.

[dobbin]

He's in stone love too. I think its Cristianov they go to.