10/27

On tuesday we worked on our projects. We tried going from the bottom up but I got to a certain point and then couldn't really make this one move. When I tried, I fell of the wall and couldn't go any farther. Then after we gave up on our projects we climbed some sorta easy top rope routes. But a certain route on the overhang was not so easy :P

10/20 and 10/25

On Tuesday after warming up, we played some bouldering/traversing games. First we tried follow the leader in the cave which was too confusing because (I'll take the blame for that) I subtracted a lot of steps to go in a different direction than you two were planning on. After that failed we started to traverse and played tag. The chaser started on the wall about six moves behing the other person who was trying to out-climb them. One of the stategies was to start somewhere so that the person chasing you would have to do a really hard part right at the beginning that you wouldn't have to do.

On Sunday we started with a warm up and then we each climbed up some different top rope routes. I also attempted to climb the corner no hands again. Afterwards, we tried some new bouldering routes and traversed for a while.

10/20 and 10/25

On tuesday we played some fun bouldering games. One was tag with traversing and that was a lot of fun. I think I was pretty good at traversing fast and catching people :) The other game was follow the leader, which we kind of failed at. We tried to go up and over and chose the weirdest route so we eventually gave up.

Then on sunday we had a pretty relaxed day. We did a few top rope climbs that weren't too hard and then traversed and bouldered some. I tried to traverse almost all the way around the gym. With a few breaks I made it most of the way... kinda. Then we tried some bouldering problems we hadn't done before. Some were a bit harder but they were pretty good. I finished a few of them even though my shoulder was hurting a little.

10/13 and 10/17

So, I'd like to start off by apologizing to you, Heather, for not blogging asap. Please don't kill us again. On Tuesday, we began with a warm up which was easy but obsurdly difficult to down climb in the middle for me for no real reason. Then we spent a longgg time working on how to balance on a flat wall with no hands... and a little boy and his dad had a lot of fun watching the punishment... I didn't really get how to stay on the wall but I learned it's all about core muscles holding you close to the wall. When we moved over to the double corner it got easier and I climbed halfway up. The trick was to have your feet far apart and then to move one foot up, you had to turn your foot and shift your weight to your on stationery foot and your hands on the opposite wall. After this we spent a little while boudlering but we were pretty dead. On Saturday Liz and I did pyramids to build endurance. We picked a 5.5 and then took turns each climbing up once, then twice, three times, four times, and then three times, twice, and once again. I was really tired after all that. Also I couldn't really walk cuz of this cut on the back of my heel and I got a second pinky blister that has been killing me since.
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Recap!

I'm sorry for not posting last week! We definitely deserved our suffering today :)

So last tuesday we worked mostly on bouldering. I tried doing my project but for some reason my arms were way too tense and I just couldn't really get much done. So instead we worked on our problems for the 4 by 4 and played a game. The game was that one person tells the other person where to go and it makes you think about it more. It was pretty hard to lead the other person because you always felt bad about some of the moves and if they were in one place for too long it got really tiring.

Then today, we were punished for not blogging and had to climb with no hands. At first we spent like 20 minutes trying to do a flat wall and that didn't work. We always ended up coming off the wall. Then we tried one of the corners and that worked much better. The point of it was to think about what our body was doing with every move. I also did some bouldering to work on this. Then we worked on the 4 by 4. Three of the problems aren't that hard but the one in the cave is very tiring. It hurts my hands a lot and by the end I am pumped.