[shark]

In another (rather smaller) academic YYFY I got promoted last week and am now allowed to read stuff.

Congratulations Andy

[JamieG]

Cheers guys,

Still feel like a fraud calling myself Doctor, but i'm sure it will help when trying to get the bank to give extra money. Maybe not!

(Dr.) Jamie 

[SA Chris]

I got promoted last week and am now allowed to read stuff.

All you need to do now is learn to read

Good work  all round.

[Oldmanmatt]

Yes, I was going to say...

I'm allowed to read too.

But only the Beano (and Vis if I'm good).

[fatdoc]

five weeks off games.... had CT of hand.. no break.. still needing RICE therapy.. tender to say the least.

F8ck it, got the bike out... spikes on... slither time... great day - I was shit, but i was out - I felt epic!

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Not climbed much recently but still managed two new 7s at Froggatt today. Then found an awesome place for Sunday roast on our doorstep where the kids were on best behaviour. Oh yeah and I (jointly) won at poker last night. 
Pretty good weekend I'd say.

[Andy B]

Oh yeah and I (jointly) won at poker last night. 

You're taking that as a win!? I was well ahead.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Oh yeah and I (jointly) won at poker last night. 

You're taking that as a win! I was well ahead.

Notice I said jointly, anyway I recon it was pretty even, my stacks were bigger than yours.
have to have another round soon.

[Andy B]

I recon it was pretty even, my stacks were bigger than yours.

Not a chance. I was keeping close tabs on those stacks. I just worked out that a taxi home would cost more than I stood to gain by destroying you.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

I recon it was pretty even, my stacks were bigger than yours.  

Not a chance. I was keeping close tabs on those stacks. I just worked out that a taxi home would cost more than I stood to gain by destroying you.

A likely story, I saw that fear in your eyes, you saw your chance of an easy exit and took it, I was just warming up. Next time, next time... 

[Andy B]

I was just warming up. Next time, next time... 

If your warm up involves losing that many hands, I fancy my chances.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

I was just warming up. Next time, next time... 

If your warm up involves losing that many hands, I fancy my chances.

Stop trying to spoil my YYFY.

[Andy B]

 :lol:Well, done on the 7's, and the parenting.

[leeroy]

Did deliverance after two years of trying 

[Nibile]

yesterday i got an email from the editor, I'm doing the Italian translation of troll wall! yyfy.

[Oldmanmatt]

yesterday i got an email from the editor, I'm doing the Italian translation of troll wall! yyfy.

Karma! Go for it L. Give it a bit of that latin flavour!

[Nibile]

finally today I managed to taste the flavour of a Moonboard!!!
nasty!!!
had great fun though, and the best thing is that I pulled and trained and although my fingers are useless now, nothing aches!!!
way to go!!!

[Eddies]

Ive been following my own periodised training programme since the first of September, and last week I took my first proper rest week. That meant no pulling of any kind, no fingerboard, only two core sessions (Tue & Thur) it was the most boring week of the year, I didnt know what to do with myself but on the upside my house has never been so clean!

Well This week ive been back into the training, Core Monday, Campus session Tue, fingerboard max hangs Wed, and tonight was 45deg session and weights.
After warming up I climbed the first hard prob on the 45 first go (no big deal) then went onto climb the prob everyone there loves to hate... I crushed it first go! Ive been trying this prob on and off for at least 3years and had only done it once before tonight! Obviously I was feeling strong so I rested for 5 mins and brushed the holds on my new big project. After the rest I pulled on and had a couple of realy good goes, another 5 min rest and then pulled on again but this time I found myself eying up the last hold... I popped for it, tagged it but didnt hold it Nooo!
Finished off with the weights sesh which went better than expected also )

Rest weeks really do work...YYFY :oD

[cheque]

Nice work on the crushing and clean house Eddies.

My YYFYs are lamer than most people's on here so I've saved them up for a compilation.

In October I went to Antalya, climbed 11 days out of 12 and went from scraping my way up 6bs to flashing 6c and feeling like I could do harder. 

I've always been bad at dynos to the point of never having actually managed one, even indoors. For the last few weeks I've been making myself do really  easy ones just to force myself to let my feet come off. Yesterday I was working a problem with a bunch of climbers and I was the only one doing a crucial move as a dyno (didn't drop it once) while everyone else thrashed themselves making it static. It felt surreal as I've always been in the latter group.

Viewing videos from Turkey made me realise my posture is shocking so I've been getting into antagonistics to fix it. Turns out my weak shoulders were a big issue and I'm climbing much steadier due to working on them (this may also be why dynos are suddenly feasible). Today I found I can do one-arm pushups. I feel like Rocky. 

YYFY

[Will Hunt]

After 5 years of parental nagging I have now passed the old driving test. BOOM!

[Nibile]

YYFY.
took February off. yes, like February, the month.
climb your projects.
lock your doors.
empty your fridges.
hide your girlfriends.

[Jim]

get yourself over brother. probably going to do a northumberland trip in feb

[clm]

get yourself over brother. probably going to do a northumberland trip in feb

Half term please.

[cheque]

After 5 years of parental nagging I have now passed the old driving test. BOOM!

Nice one. Quite useful for climbing too I find! The annoying thing about aprents is that they usually turn out to have been right all along.

[Baldy]

After cancelling my trip to swizzy about 2 weeks ago due to a ridiculous heel injury sustained while playing rugby (Bruised nerve meant I couldnt put on my right climbing shoe without  for over a month) I tried on my new miuras a week ago and found that I was able to climb sans pain!

We quickly replanned the swizzy trip in about 3 days and I am now sitting in the house on a well planned (wet) rest day after 2 quality (dry) days out on the rock.

After a 14 hour through the night drive I managed to climb:

Sloper Attack (6c+/7a)

And yesterday (despite suffering from my first real man flu) I climbed:

Matusalem (6c+)
Batterie in Esuarimento (7a+)
and
Tomahawk (7b)

Manflu clearing up - climbing going well - need cool problems to send.

Prior to yesterday I had only climbed a few problems over 7a and they included a bunch that I felt were overgraded down on portland and a bunch of slab dynos
So basically - I'm quite happy.