First up is a continuation of the last blog, Last Rites was despatched standard slow style. Leaving me with only Mr Whippy and Pete s new problem Screwball. After these its Traverses and Sit starts. Think I am done with it for a while. I would like to do Mr Whippy, Millenium Drive and Chris's Link as these were the three I went there for in the first place to continue my guide ticking mission. Guess we shall see what the weather brings. Which brings me neatly on to the present project, after hitting the top for the last 4 sessions, landing all round the block and risking my legs a bit, I finally got CJD to come up and spot, sods law the clouds cleared and wind stopped instantly I failed to get anywhere near it. So in an effort to do it (very) soon I have analysed all the footage and worked out what is missing. Its because I am only going for the move once a session I think, having landed sideways with both feet on a block, landed on my knees between 2 blocks and just generally missing the 4 pads from a quite unpredictable fall. I have to really build up to a big effort, and given it wears out my skin quickly as its summer and I shouldn't really be trying it now if I had any sense, it a tricky balance to get up there feeling good before I hurt my skin, (or what I thought was a big ball of scar tissue on my finger till I felt Sam's the other night when I realised it was tiny and I should man the fuck up). But I don't have any sense other than the sense that I am a tiny % away from doing it any session. Hmm, reminds me a bit of Clyde but we wont go there, that would be negative. Anyway the up shot of it all is that I found the best goes and looked back in my book to see what I was doing at the time, and quel surprise I was campusing a bit at the time. Which makes me laugh, given the fact that in November when I first taped the top hold I said to Chris that if I was still campusing lots the move would have been easy. Genius it only takes 7 mouths to implement what I know is a good idea.. So its back to the Mill and the Indy and swinging round on strips of wood, hanging on the Beastmaker with weights attatched and hopeing for a window before the baby comes.
Next up its my most/least favourite thing GRADES, ugh. Feel free to ignore everything from here on in if I was wise I would. When I wrote this last year I thought yes I am going to leave it alone stop using 8A nu as I think it did encourage me to be optimistic sometimes. I also said I was going to Font as that's where they came from, well the upshot is I must be better at climbing in Font than I am in Wales. I failed to stop using it so this time I have obliterated it, it took a while as the only way I could find to do it properly was to delete each ascent individually. This turned out to be quite a cathartic experience, it feels like I am no longer a slave to what I did and the need to prop up my ego on the fact that I did X 5 years ago, instead I can move forward get better and hopefully climb harder, not necessarily as in a harder grade, just as in harder to do for me. These are 2 very different things I am learning. And that's the point as long as I am learning I am progressing, and as long as I am progressing then this silly little game of bouldering makes me very happy. And when I am happy I climb better. Look out boulders of Wales, I am going to get you, definitely not today definitely not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of my life.
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