rginns blog

Last night I headed over into deepest darkest Lancashire for an inaugural visit to the board of POWER recently constructed by GCW . Firstly I was pretty impressed by the general build quality. This is built to last and has proper joist hangers and everything! He's even finished the corners with profile dowels. Nice attention to detail... Anyway, the angle is about 33 degrees and it was nice to get on someone elses board - there are a few more resin holds than I have (I think I need to get some more), but a nice mix between crimps, pockets, pinches etc. It was a good session, interspersed with Christmas cake and coffee. Can't go wrong. Awesome hospitality... I'm feeling it this morning, which tells me I've not been on my board enough. The grades almost exclusively settled on about 6b+. Awesome. There are also bolts to hang a Bachar ladder off. This should be an easy one for me to make and install and would add a good training tool I think It's got me all ps

So I've not updated the blog for a while, and now I've worked out how to reorder the posts so they appear on the actual date they happened rather than writing them donkeys after etc... Anyhow, what's been going on since the walk with my Dad? In short, my climbing has been fairly sporadic. Indoor climbing In October and November I dusted off my harness and had a few weeks of going to the wall and getting back into leading. Now bearing in mind I've not been leading for upwards of 2 years I expected to find it tough. I decided to take a different attitude than I have in the past and actually use the sessions as a training resource. Sounds silly but I've always tended to give a shit about performing at the wall as opposed to maximising gains through training. So, training head on, I decided to LEAD as many routes as possible, avoiding toproping as much as possible. Normalising leading, making it the default, certainly helpedmy head, and I was soon knocking on 6a/6