Wednesday

I did actually go climbing last week, but have been so busy at work and home that I haven't written anything about it. But, to be honest, it was quite uneventful. I was late getting to the wall because there's a game on the Xbox I've been playing too much of, so it was mostly about the two routes I was trying to crack. I got pretty far, I'm getting more confident on the v3 yellow I've been trying to do. Actually, there was another climber trying to do the same route. He's far more advanced than I am and he said it's the route giving him the most trouble too, so I don't feel too bad. In fact I think got a little bit further than him. It's a weird route that requires a lot of balance stretch in an awkward position. He introduced me to a v4 he says is a lot of fun - I can barely to the sit-start :<

Another route I did had me stumped for a good 10 minutes. I was standing there looking at it not knowing how to start, the positioning was so strange for the holds. I also don't know when I can use the wall and when I can't, I just figured if I'm not using the holds I'm not doing the climb properly but I don't think that's the case. I asked a guy who looked like he knew what he was doing to help me out, to show me how to start. After some consideration he showed me how to use the arette to start. But he got to a point half way up the route that he couldn't do so he jumped off. After he showed me how to start, I breezed up it straight away and found it quite easy. That gave me a bunch of confidence, doings something a more experienced climber couldn't do - he was showing his mate how to climb too, bet it wasn't too fun for him. Shucks.