This Vehicle Was Illegally Parked.

After a really long period of just climbing indoors and training, me and Brandon decided to go outside to Stanage. I did Zippy's Traverse (Font7b/V8) after about 8 tries, I had tried it before, a while ago when I use to go to the Plantation a lot, but never felt positive about it. Generally the moves are good, but if can be frustrating as you swing out, and there are different options of how to control it. I eventually found a sequence, that probably isn't the easiest, but I was consistent with doing it my way. It means I pretty much use every single handhold, my heel kept popping as I went for the jug, if you get the jug without it popping, you can compose yourself and swing off and match the jug in full control. Today, I didn't find any of the moves hard, and none of the holds felt bad, it felt like what a Font7a felt ages ago, last year. But I think it's still a hard 7b. We then went over to Stanage Far Right and tried the '7b Lip Traverse', we had previously been told by people that it was an amazing problem, and to be fair, the moves were really good, except we just couldn't crack it in a small session before the sun went down. We practically did it though, we just didn't link it from the very beginning. At the start of the day our first train was delayed, so we missed our interchanging train, so we had to get a bus, so we couldn't take our bikes, so we locked them up to a pole. this extra £2.50 for the bus, which we shouldn't of had to pay, on top of the £10.55 train ticket, affected my mental state a lot. So we had to walk up to Stanage, and also when we got back to our bikes at the end of the day somebody had stolen Brandon's bike seat, and there was a large yellow sticker on my bike saying "THIS VEHICLE WAS ILLEGALLY PARKED".



Check out this new video from Red Tips Productions> http://www.vimeo.com/3337244

(Me right at the start, on Rons Slab, then The Steep Traverse, then a while later on The Green Traverse)


Also, check out my new Moon Climbing sticker which I put onto the front of my bike, I'm hoping it will make me bike faster on the 10mile+ bike ride to Raven Tor.

Also, I have a few new pictures of my wall. Which is no way near as steep enough as we want it, we will be making it alot steeper next week.

You can also see the wooden fingerboard that Brandon made ages ago.

Training & New Website!

I've been saving my money and spending most of my time training in my garage, as I have some new holds and I've set some sick problems! I might randomly go out on the grit one-day to see how it goes but the trainings occupying me for now. Check out my new website in a few days as it will be ready then, its called Red Tips - Climbing, it's basically a climbing website with forums, videos, photos ect and some funky stuff like information about home-made bouldering walls and we might be getting an online store with some cool stuff for sale, pretty much anything that's awesome will be sold, like oldskool jumpers with crazy patters, slate-climbing-holds, and maybe some big climbing posters and cool t-shirts. It will take time but in a few days it should be ready, for a short while the address will be www.red-tips.webs.com , but we may buy a package thing which will make it a whole lot better, then, the address will be www.red-tips.com . I'll make a post when I know more.

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So, we went out, and got up pretty early for it, but the rock was soaking wet! and there was no wind so it would just not dry at all. We met Scott, but then he went home, so me and Brandon went to The Edge for a bouldering session. We was there for 4/5 hours and it was pretty fun. Scott got me and Brandon Dosage 5 for our birthday which is awesome!

Right now i'm just training all the time, as I don't have the money to waste on taking my chances with the grit.