The Underground hustler

It was a most busy day today as myself, Matt and Sean joined another 15 or so people in matting out most of parisellas and spending a large portion of the day training/failing!

There was however one boy, fuelled by a £9 chippie takeout and plenty of coca cola from the night before, barely awake from 4 hours of sleep... ready to step up to the plate.

Sean dispatched Pit of Hell without breaking a sweat and then breezed along Broken Heart before almost making it a triple takedown with a good attempt on Lou F.

As for myself and Matt...

Matt was still coming through the other side of Friday nights party which went well into Saturday morning/afternoon and it was impressive he made it out the car and on to the rock.

If there is one type of climbing totally not his style then it would be slopey compression with heels/toehooks so he did well tackling it head on working cave life/lou F and then broken heart. It'd be scary to see him combine stronger arms/compression with his legendary fingers of steel and unleash it on the world!

I had an ok session managing to get both hands on to left wall from In Life start only to collapse in a heap as my left arm had nothing left. (I was locked in the press off the arch trying to regrip the wide left pinch on left wall for about 5 seconds or more and couldn't feel it, so just attempted the right hand cross under anyway and failed upon grabbing it).

The next redpoint ended with my hands sliding off the two slopers trying to get feet on so I tapped out and started trying Lou F sans pocket/Full Circle and Greenheart. Didn't quite get the undercut pinch on LFSP and managed to do Full circle to the finish from a move in but the first move is by far the crux, so hopefully I can fluke this sometime soon!

There is the possiblity of a couple trips this week coming, so hopefully I can get another little tick in the lifetime quest to tick the book.