Quote from: wasbeen on August 30, 2020, 10:09:22 amIn some ways, I am wary about being too hard on Friction Labs even if they are selling a placebo. If you believe that it works it will probably work. Even if you don't believe it will work it will probably still work (a placebo can still work even if you know they are a placebo).A placebo is ingested. How is an external condition - the coefficient of friction- altered purely by the power of the mind?
In some ways, I am wary about being too hard on Friction Labs even if they are selling a placebo. If you believe that it works it will probably work. Even if you don't believe it will work it will probably still work (a placebo can still work even if you know they are a placebo).
Some people talk about microwaving it to make it drier, but never tried this myself.
Quote from: SA Chris on August 28, 2020, 10:31:54 amSome people talk about microwaving it to make it drier, but never tried this myself.I’m not a scientist but my experiments with leftover pizza would suggest that microwaving doesn’t remove moisture at all.
Quote from: cheque on August 30, 2020, 01:20:55 pmQuote from: SA Chris on August 28, 2020, 10:31:54 amSome people talk about microwaving it to make it drier, but never tried this myself.I’m not a scientist but my experiments with leftover pizza would suggest that microwaving doesn’t remove moisture at all.Try taking the pizza out of the chalk before microwaving it? 😀
Interesting but strange test. How can it be a negative that the chalk dries out the skin? That is exactly the point of applying chalk to the hands in sports!
“It goes on so nice; it’s like butter,”
I'm going to disrupt the market by buying the chalk and rebranding it as 9a, along with some psuedowaffle and a chalk bag with silver threads woven into that are boosted by UV energy every time you dip your hand into it and create instant recovery.
So, I also found Beta chalk blocks in stock with NeedleSports. I placed an order and received today. Opened the parcel to find lots of... 8C+ chalk blocks... I wonder what's happening there then, suspiciously two places have replaced Beta with 8C+ now. Unless staff at Needle Sports read this thread and want to troll me :-(
Quote from: Anti on September 01, 2020, 12:51:48 pmSo, I also found Beta chalk blocks in stock with NeedleSports. I placed an order and received today. Opened the parcel to find lots of... 8C+ chalk blocks... I wonder what's happening there then, suspiciously two places have replaced Beta with 8C+ now. Unless staff at Needle Sports read this thread and want to troll me :-(The Beta tape I recently ordered arrived in packaging branded 8C+, so maybe Beta are re-branding? No announcement of a rebrand on their website though which is a bit odd?
”Same amazing chalk and tape, just new packaging!”
So 8c+ (the artist formerly known as beta) chalk is also not available in the uk now (according to Rich in V12).Beta and then 8c+ were my go-to and now I feel a bit lost. I just bought a block of metolius but wasn’t blown away by it. Now there are about a million chalk brands out there plus the fact my skin totally went to shit on a recent trip made me wonder if there’s something better out there? I have pretty wet tips and often get massive flappers from big sharp holds… not sure if that’s because the rest of my fingers get too dry? Wary of using fricky labs as don’t want to get addicted to expensive chalk… Any suggestions on a decent chalk that comes in a non-plastic wrapper? Always nice to minimise plastic use
I've been using Rock Technologies chalk and find it just as good as Friction Labs.https://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/16543999/rock-technologi-loose-chalk-16543999