Wednesday 9 January 2008

Some pics from the other day tanks to Nick Hensman.


Ry, getting high



finally!



a bit of barndoor...

Sunday 6 January 2008

wow


Drove up from leicester to Stanage today with some of the Leicester crowd. The weather was looking good which was a bonus.

After warming up i decided to have a quick go on deliverance. First go was a rubbish ranging go. On the second go i committed to the foothold and got the jug ok. It's nice to have done this as it means i don't have to try it again!

Shaggy turned up and quickly did Boston Mess (i fell off the last move, tickling the top). Now we were warm we could get stuck in to the Joker. We were both close to campusing it (hand fully over the jug, but forgetting to hold on) but somehow couldn't comit to the foot on method.

Ryan and Katy arrived and after messing about on a few other things we got stuck into Carless Torque (while Shaggy stayed behind and did Ben's extension - effort). Ryan was crusing the bottom (crux) over an over again but messing up the top. After a big lob from the last move (which was fine) he chilled out and did it easily. This was only his second session on it!
This is one of the most inspiring things i have seen for a long time. Amazing effort.

I slowly made progress until i was getting stood up on the arete and reaching out right to the rail, but messing my feet up. Not to worry. The moves are very good and i can't wait to get on it again. I never thought i would be able to get off the ground!



(Here is Big Malc doing the deed back in 2001)

Now back to training and revising until after exams....






Saturday 5 January 2008

crimbo etc.

Have been in leicester for the past couple of weeks for christmas and all that. I am training a lot on our board and on the fingerboard and seeing improvements which is always nice.

I went on Keith's board last week. His hard problems are HARD and i got fully shut down on them. I managed to make up a nice new problem for him (which i couldn't do!). It's called "squeeze louise". He is in Swiss at the moment with a strong team. I assume he will dispatch (if the weather is good).

Back to revision for me.....