Got new shoes (same as my old pair). La Sportiva Testarossa's are notorious among rock climbers as being an awesomely aggressive shoe with die-hard fans, which leads me to question why La Sportiva is discontinuing them. I had to get a special order on my pair since they are impossible to find now, people at the gym keep asking me how I managed to snag a shiny new pair when they are completely off the market.
Also got a new harness, the new 2014 Petzl Corax shipped in. My old one I don't trust with the amount of falling force generated by lead climbing. Good thing too, first day with the new harness and I took a 14-foot fall off of the last move.
Also took part in a friendly dyno comp last week Thursday. "Dyno" in rock climbing is short for "dynamic move" which essentially means leaping from one set of holds onto another set of holds. Most of the dyno problems were on overhangs and required vertical and lateral jumps. A few required multiple dynos for completion. It was a "friendly" in that there were no judges, you get a score sheet like in mini-golf and you record the number of attempts at each problem, I think there were about 20 in total. I scored pretty well with mostly first and second attempts.
Made it 2/3 up a
5.12- route yesterday. I actually finished the crux (hardest part of the climb) but got a little stuck on the sequencing and was too tired out to finish. To give you an idea of what the rating system means, about
half of all climbers don't make it past 5.10 climbs, maybe 5% of climbers make it past 5.12. The world's hardest climb is currently a 5.15c which has been completed by only 2 people.
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sprinkled with the occasional cleaning day.
I'll show it all off then.
