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#25 lousy bank holiday weather
May 23, 2003, 10:04:39 am
Cheers Simon,

Now you've confused me. Are you just trying to lure me to wales to spend money in outside?

Damn you all, WHERE DO I GO???!

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#26 lousy bank holiday weather
May 23, 2003, 10:44:00 am
Come to the snore,  It was still in good nick last night,  Going again tonight so will report back.  Pump up the power was in good nick and felt piss compared to last saturday.
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#27 lousy bank holiday weather
May 23, 2003, 11:58:48 am
I might well be there then.

Cheers, young man! :8)

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#28 lousy bank holiday weather
May 23, 2003, 02:47:07 pm
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Pump up the power was in good nick and felt piss


i'd love to be strong enough to be able to say that!

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#29 lousy bank holiday weather
May 23, 2003, 02:57:20 pm
Thats the weird thing.  Everyone keeps saying how strong I am but I am not, Infact, I'm piss weak.  I cant even do a one armer.  To be honest, putp did not feel that powerful.  Once I had worked out my sequence it fult pretty steady.  I am going to get on it on a rope later so fingers crossed.  You do need strong fingers though :lol: .  
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#30 lousy bank holiday weather
May 23, 2003, 06:30:49 pm
i would say your main atributes james are that you are light and have tiny fingers (the smaller the fingers the bigger the holds!).  PUTP must suit you pretty well, get it done.

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#31 lousy bank holiday weather
May 23, 2003, 07:16:23 pm
I've top roped it and it didn't feel piss! bastard! and I can do one armers!

You think you're coming climbing on Satdy - I'm gonna bury ya in the Cave! see how strong you are then!

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#32 lousy bank holiday weather
May 23, 2003, 11:12:01 pm
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and I can do one armers!


I'm starting to hate you  :wink:

Quote from: "james"
Everyone keeps saying how strong I am but I am not, Infact, I'm piss weak.

James - you have evil finger strength, fuck all bodyweight, good technique, and a good approach to the whole thang - you're sorted  :P

What is strong? - I could almost certainly lift more weight than you down the gym, but I'm never going to be anywhere as strong on the rock. Power to weight, innit....

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#33 lousy bank holiday weather
May 26, 2003, 11:06:24 am
i'm guessing that BH Monday is nice then judging by the lack of people to talk to here?

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#34 lousy bank holiday weather
May 27, 2003, 07:57:41 am
Yeah Monday was cool! the weather ain't been so bad this weekend after all. Despite heavy showers in the morning on Saturday, the rest of the weekend was allright. Snore was busy inspite of rain. Stu was very strong, James had tenacious steely strong fingers, I moaned a lot and struggled to string two moves together and Chris was impressed.

CragX was wet through on Saturday and better (but not perfect) yesterday.

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#35 lousy bank holiday weather
May 27, 2003, 10:13:03 am
Crag x was ok late on yesterday.  I nearly did the pinch, should get it next time.
I did Pump up the Power Yesterday :lol: , which was nice.  Does anyone know of any hard but short 8b's.
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#36 lousy bank holiday weather
May 27, 2003, 08:02:53 pm
Good effort sir! You were looking strong on it on Saturday. Did you do a big gay match or did you power straight through like a beast?

The pinch is a cool problem, had a look in at it yesterday and made it to the ear in good style but couldn't move out of that position - anyone any beta?

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#37 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 08:55:42 am
The big gay match for a big gay punter like myself :lol: .  That bit wasnt the problem, it was getting the last gaston thingy, I must have hit it about 6 times before I held it.  It got quite anoying.
For the pinch there are two methods that I know of, one uses the ear and one uses a weird but good hold further up and right.  I was trying it the second way.  When are you next out?
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#38 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 09:09:07 am
not a bad weekend overall for me, despite only getting out a couple of times. Saw matrix reloaded, did westside story :D , rocket man, satin, wednesday climb (bo!) :lol: , knights move and pock-man sans chips. Also got close to the top on spring voyage and storm - something to go back to when its colder. Also did what might be a new easier problem on burbage - well as close as you can get excepting that ron and jason did everything in the peak years ago.

"gimme a rewind"

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#39 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 09:10:49 am
Forgot to say i also did our very own Scouse Dogg's (/Ru's) neo-classic stamina-fest Crash 'n Gurn V7. mofo.

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#40 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 09:13:02 am
Well, congratulations to everyone for their fruitful weekends  :D

What did I do? I painted the entire outside of the house in a hideous two and a half day epic that left me with crippled wrists and eyes full of paint.

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#41 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 09:21:14 am
If it makes you feel any better I've got fuck all skin now and i'm taking the week off cos my elbow is giving me the old 911.

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#42 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 09:34:22 am
I want photo evidence Dave!! Everyone's done that problem now! Do you reckon V7 as consensus seems to be toward V6 now?
Good effort on Wednesday climb-I know you've been in training for it for a while now.

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#43 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 09:39:48 am
dunno, its piss once you've got it sorted but you've also got to take into account the 20-odd goes of just trying to jerk your arse off the mat. Took me ages to decide how to hold the mono, after i got that sorted it was alright. Maybe welsh V7  :wink: .

and don't worry john got some photos.

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#44 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 09:47:56 am
Word.
How was pock man sans pock? Did it back in the day and remember it being a tasty little number. Did you try the B9 slab?

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#45 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 09:59:25 am
pockman sans chips is superb, a bit goey with tricky rockover at the top. Tasty B5?

Had a token stab at the B9 slab, didn't get anywhere. Anyone done this? (nik?) i would accept any beta....

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#46 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 10:03:23 am
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Had a token stab at the B9 slab, didn't get anywhere. Anyone done this? (nik?) i would accept any beta....

Oh, I've tried many times....tasty lil' number innit? I know Fatdoc has done it and if he ever gets off his moutain bike and pops in here he might enlighten us.
Aren't there some footholds low down right that make the first move a bit easier - reckon they're out of bounds really though.

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#47 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 10:13:08 am
Yeah the low pocket-bullethole was only think getting me off the ground, but you get marrooned there. Seems way harder than those roaches spring slabs.

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#48 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 10:22:12 am
Not tried that one, is it any good.
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#49 lousy bank holiday weather
May 28, 2003, 10:47:05 am
get stood on the slab then whack your left foot up reet high and kind of palm off with your right hand. Almost bridging the groove style thingy do-dah. then just keep on truckin...
Hard problem that is eased significantly by being a flexible little mo-fo, unfortunatley I am not so I took the approach of falling off a gigazillion times until the rock got bored of me and let me get to the top just so I'd piss off and leave it alone. May well be harder than the spring boulder probs (bobba fett at al) but I did them a few years apart so couldn't really say.
Tra-la-laaaa....
Never tried a pockless pockman though, that sounds fun.

 

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