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Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: (woz) on August 15, 2005, 10:41:09 am

Does anyone know where the official finish to this problem is? i was trying to get all the way to the right arete but the last move gets really akward as the lip is only about 1ft off the ground.  It seemed more logical to rock onto the slab a bit further left (1m). ace problem though.
anyone done it who can give me some tips?

thanks,
dan

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Bonjoy on August 15, 2005, 10:47:59 am

On the first ascent Iain did it to the rockover you mention.
 I don't have any useful tips, sorry. But I can tell you that a Pea Crab is a crab, roughly the size of a pea, which lives a parasitic existence inside the shell of a mussel

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 15, 2005, 10:57:05 am

Quote from: "Bonjoy"

a Pea Crab is a crab, roughly the size of a pea

no shit

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Bonjoy on August 15, 2005, 11:07:00 am

Come now, these things aren't always implicit. A House Martin being considerably smaller than your average semi.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 15, 2005, 11:27:04 am

Point taken, but don't call me Martin.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: SA Chris on August 15, 2005, 12:25:30 pm

Quote from: "Bonjoy"

Come now, these things aren't always implicit. A House Martin being considerably smaller than your average semi.

True, and giant spider crabs are considerably bigger than any spider, in spite of their name (http://www.photovault.com/Link/Animals/Aquatic/rCrustacia/AARVolume02/AARV02P05_04.jpg)

This is possibly the freakiest beast I have ever seen, the ones in the aquarium in Cape Town stand about 4 foot tall, and are not the biggest ever seen.

Also hermit crabs are not all members of the 60s band Herman's Hermits, although i believe one played the pea whistle for them on one single, after they found a pea crab was not up to the task.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: (woz) on August 15, 2005, 12:29:39 pm

thanks for the info! and the mini biology lesson - always nice to know the backgroud of your project name :lol:
did all the moves on it this morning (except the very last one) but its gonna hav to be a lot colder for the full thing - cant wait for autumn!

dan

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 15, 2005, 01:10:51 pm

2 questions:

Is the was the hermits cave at cratcliffe ever occupied by a hermit crab?

and where is this pea crab traverse, i recognise the name but forget the location.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Bonjoy on August 15, 2005, 01:30:19 pm

Trav's the lip of the block with Jetpack on it.
 The cratcliffe cave was mostly inhabited by Herman and the Hermits during the late 60s.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 15, 2005, 01:40:23 pm

oh bloody hell that thing.

was herman from herman's hermits hermen goering or herman munster?

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: (woz) on August 15, 2005, 01:43:19 pm

while you are (vaguely!) on the subject, is there a trick to jetpack or do i just have to be stronger/thinner/try harder/get good at dynos

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Bonjoy on August 15, 2005, 01:55:46 pm

Throw really hard and spin anticlockwise. There is also a boreing static way to do it using a crimp out left

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: a dense loner on August 15, 2005, 02:16:07 pm

Quote

do i just have to be stronger/thinner/try harder/get good at dynos

no, it's bonjoy's prob :wink:

shit, got to go, gonna be late for magic wood :P

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 15, 2005, 02:17:12 pm

i pasted me feet on the ramp on the left on jetpack, one low and one quite high, then you'r facing sideways and can get a good swing into the back and then launch out. its a funny movement, did it twice like that couple o years ago, then this summer couldn't do it and was getting closer using some other more regular way. its basically a wierd knack type thing.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Bonjoy on August 15, 2005, 03:24:19 pm

Jetpack would be a much better problem if the ground was a bit lower :roll:

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 15, 2005, 03:38:13 pm

maybe the BMC can get the ground dug out a bit, and use that soil the rebuild the deliverance landing.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: (woz) on August 17, 2005, 10:19:31 am

got up at 5am this morning to get some chilly conditions, and then proceded to fall off the final rockover 3 times after doing 40 odd moves to get there. bugger :cry:

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 17, 2005, 10:36:05 am

5am!!! christ that really is far too keen, especially for an arse-dragging lip traverse!

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: (woz) on August 17, 2005, 10:46:34 am

plus it means im knackered by 9am and considering going back to bed for the rest of the day.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Bonjoy on August 17, 2005, 11:11:08 am

Respect! Just like Roy Castle said " Dedication, dedication, dedication, that's what you need..."

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Johnny Brown on August 17, 2005, 11:12:24 am

...and keep off the fags.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 17, 2005, 11:19:19 am

i once met roy castle when i was about 8 or 9 years old.

Roy was on the ball with dedication, but if you had to choose a former record breakers presenter to get you psyched at the crag, fighting through the crux of a problem, it'd have to be kriss akabusi.

He's the most psyched individual on the face of the planet.

(http://www.freshevents.co.uk/images/krissakabusi.jpg)

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: cofe on August 22, 2005, 10:43:22 am

it's obviously invisible, but i would like to know what he's holding on to in that photo...

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Yossarian on August 22, 2005, 10:51:36 am

i would like to see kriss akabusi vs mr motivator vs rocky on a superstars special edition...

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: Bonjoy on August 22, 2005, 10:52:12 am

Is he not playing an invisible big base?

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: dave on August 22, 2005, 10:52:21 am

i recon he's filming bluescreen for the CGI version of singing in the rain - thats the lamppost.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: cofe on August 22, 2005, 10:58:51 am

or he's about to plunge cheryl baker into a devastating record breaking headlock. who's the daddy.

Title: pea crab shuffle
Post by: tommytwotone on August 22, 2005, 10:59:11 am

Quote from: "Yossarian"

i would like to see kriss akabusi vs mr motivator vs rocky on a superstars special edition...

with a circa-early-1990s-Gladiators John Fashanu commentating:

AWOOOOOOOOGAAAAAAA!!!!