WHat A Toe Hook!!!!

And I was impressed the other day when I did my first heel hook.

Bex, that flexibility for the toe hook comes in mighty handy when you're gotta reach your leg back to scratch that spot between your shoulder blades. Feels OOOh so goood.

Good to know WC.

I want to fly to Singapore and try it out. It's a very handsome looking boulder problem.

I think it was in Singapore that I met that girl who could put her leg behind her shoulder and then she....... oh well, ,, forget it.

Welcome to singapore!! here we do have many bouldering problems. YEAH!!

legs behind e shoulder???!!! Ripley believe it or not!!!! wahaha

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I love girls who are flexible....many advantages, ,, many.

Good to know Woodchuck good to know.

"girls who are flexible" sounds so... wahahaha

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So is it just me looking at that picture and thinking; "Errr....did they forget to screw the holds to it....?!"
;)

"Gravity doesn't ever forget itself or go temporarily off duty" - R. Macfarlane, 2003.

It does look rather sparse, doesn't it? But wait...is that a small piece of red tape?...yes, I think they were merciful enough to allow a tiny piece of plastic up there...

What? Err.. that thing that looks like a segment of orange that his foot is on?

"Gravity doesn't ever forget itself or go temporarily off duty" - R. Macfarlane, 2003.

How the hell did he get to where he is now anyways?!? God - I'm more used to trying to distinguish "which, of these many holds, is next - they all look off-white?" not "so where the hell is the next hold?" [bouldering].

"Gravity doesn't ever forget itself or go temporarily off duty" - R. Macfarlane, 2003.

Personally I think it's more dignified to say "off-white holds" than "that hot pink tape with the sparkly purple stars".

Haha, yeah - maybe it's just the places that I climb (indoors) that tend to set routes by coloured holds rather than coloured tape; so the spangly tape thing is a bit of a foreign concept to me really [but like I was saying - there are times when ALL the holds just look 'off-white' so it can get a bit confusing!].

"Gravity doesn't ever forget itself or go temporarily off duty" - R. Macfarlane, 2003.

Here, does this help SF? (looks like a pretty burly problem to me)

Err, yeah, thanks man.... My point was though - where the hell did all the other holds go??!!??!! I see the holes where they used to be.... they, like, emigrate or something???
;)

"Gravity doesn't ever forget itself or go temporarily off duty" - R. Macfarlane, 2003.

Naw, they just pull all the other hold off in a comp. It's so you don't "accidentally" use a hold that is off route.

So if you smear over/stick your pinky finger in the old holes then you can get away with that, right? 'Cos surely then you're just using "features"?. [am I cheating here? - forgive me for I don't compete!]

"Gravity doesn't ever forget itself or go temporarily off duty" - R. Macfarlane, 2003.

Yeah, the "holes" can't be used. Haha, I'm sure someone has tried to get away with it before.

my guess is this is a boulder like 8 ft off the ground and was being played on before they finished setting holds up on it. I know, too logical. more fun to think weirdness isnt' it?