[Duma]

Thanks all!
Matt, elbow is still very crunchy, but doesn't seem to be triggered by vertish stuff, so there's a fair amount of stuff here for me to try hard on.
jwi, I aim for the ones with hard moves - I have terrible fitness and it hopefully means better rests and less sustained!

[Fiend]

Good stuff, keep verting!!

[webbo]

Climbed on my board today  A day short of 5 weeks since getting a new hip.
I hope the missus doesn’t read this.

[SA Chris]

hip hooray

[Fiend]

Nice one Webbo! (We won't tell the missus  )

[hongkongstuey]

been using my 'not allowed to climb yet' time to explore random hillsides in HK and found this the other day - about 5 m high and practically begging me to break the rules... Should give quite a nice line all the way from a sit start and up the steep side of the flying arete

hopefully the HK summer doesn't start too early and there's time to clean and bag it once i'm allowed to climb again and before conditions vanish...



have also found a few entirely new areas well worthy of development so looks like it's gonna be a busy few months cleaning and prepping stuff 
 

[SA Chris]

That's a mad bit of rock. Almost like one of those bits you would doodle.

[jwi]

We are moving to Barcelona in September. I am not sure it is YYFY or NNFN, but objectively it has to be the best major city in Europe for climbing, except possibly Nice or Athens?

[SA Chris]

What's a major city?

Climbing aside, must be a fantastic city to live in. I loved it when I went.

[MischaHY]

What's a major city?

Climbing aside, must be a fantastic city to live in. I loved it when I went.

One rank above a First Sergeant city.

[SA Chris]

LOL. Technically rank goes from Captain to Major, but still funny.

[jwi]

What's a major city?

Climbing aside, must be a fantastic city to live in. I loved it when I went.

In general, a way to dismiss places like Briançon, or even smaller cities like Pobla de Segur etc that are clearly some of the best places for year round sport climbing but does not offer much in terms of reasonably payed jobs etc

[MischaHY]

LOL. Technically rank goes from Captain to Major, but still funny.

I went and extra googled it before hand so I could be less wrong whilst still knowing deep in my heart that I would indeed be wrong.

[MischaHY]

First 7C flash yesterday  "Lords of the Boards" in Bad Liebenzell (Black Forest). Thought it would be a multi-session project based on what I'd heard from others so was very pleasantly surprised.

Heading to Font on Saturday so this is a good sign that things are ticking over well. Any recommendations for things there in a similar style/difficulty? (Crimps, tech, body tension). Highball suggestions also welcome! 

[andy popp]

Lots of just glorious swimming recently - three days at the weekend, today, hopefully tomorrow.

The water is still fairly cold; 7C at the weekend, 8C today, but having swum through the winter (and there were some grim days) I feel really acclimatised. The water feels almost comfortable and I can begin to swim a bit further, 160 strokes today. Honestly, I think I might like this temp best for its combination of invigoration and all the pleasure of being in the water.

So, yup, it's confirmed: I've become a cold water swimming bore.

[SA Chris]

Maybe you'll end up looking like Chris Hemsworth

https://www.insider.com/chris-hemsworth-swam-arctic-benefits-cold-therapy-at-home-2022-11

(Chris says hi).

[andy popp]

Maybe? There's no maybe about it.

[jwi]

Mr. Hemsworth should consider to stop misusing steroids if he wants to live longer.

[mrjonathanr]

7C at the weekend, 8C today,

Quite the improvement!

[Fiend]

Can't wait for the Youtube video on that "INSANE 7C TO 8C IN A DAY GRADE JUMP"

[Yossarian]

Being deliberately cryptic here as I might soon have to up my discretion game. But this is a valuable lesson in life sometimes throwing serendipitous wonders at you, especially when you’ve spent a lot of time wondering whether it can get much shittier. From the late 90s till I met my now ex wife, I had a major crush on a Hollywood actress, about whom I spent / wasted a lot of time (in the way that non-serious daydreamers like me are apt to do) musing over what it might be like to date her one day - someone completely unattainable who I was convinced was the most beautiful woman in the world. Well, thanks to dating app technology and some well-obscured photos, it turns out that the person I’ve been having sporadic phone calls with over the past month is the same person*. She even phoned me up on Saturday to ask how my session at the wall went before we launched into a discussion about boilers. I have no idea if romance will blossom or not, and I don’t really care as the whole thing is so hilariously improbable. Either way, along with my sleepwalking auto-defenestration story I’m going to win every dinner party anecdote competition for life.

*This is not uncharacteristic. I spent five minutes standing in a farm yard last January talking about the size of horses’ hoofs with a man (whilst my son fed his horse a carrot) before realising that I was talking to Paul McCartney.

[Johnny Brown]

Which was nice?

[Wellsy]

PBd my backsquat

A poverty 110kgs but happy with all progress given that I started squatting in Feb on sub 90kgs with a fucked knee!

Aim of 130kgs this year feels maybe doable?

[cheque]

From the late 90s till I met my now ex wife, I had a major crush on a Hollywood actress, about whom I spent / wasted a lot of time (in the way that non-serious daydreamers like me are apt to do) musing over what it might be like to date her one day - someone completely unattainable who I was convinced was the most beautiful woman in the world. Well, thanks to dating app technology and some well-obscured photos, it turns out that the person I’ve been having sporadic phone calls with over the past month is the same person*. She even phoned me up on Saturday to ask how my session at the wall went before we launched into a discussion about boilers. I have no idea if romance will blossom or not, and I don’t really care as the whole thing is so hilariously improbable. Either way, along with my sleepwalking auto-defenestration story I’m going to win every dinner party anecdote competition for life.

[mrjonathanr]

She even phoned me up on Saturday to ask how my session at the wall went before we launched into a discussion about boilers.

I like riddles. Is it Glenn Close?