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Mar. 28th, 2007 10:24 amNew LJ icon, courtesy of <lj user="kneeshooter">. Taken in the crew hut at Vikings.
Lots of fun at the climbing wall last night, doing 'levitation' routes. These are the opposite of the usual 'huge holds but 45 degree overhanging, brute force' routes, and instead give you a very small number of holds in a corner. The aim is to use these, the friction of your shoes against the flat surfaces, and the jedi mind trick to somehow make progress. Quite a lot of thought involved, and many of those thoughs are"I can't possibly do this without falling off - oh wait, I *just* can..."
Lots of fun at the climbing wall last night, doing 'levitation' routes. These are the opposite of the usual 'huge holds but 45 degree overhanging, brute force' routes, and instead give you a very small number of holds in a corner. The aim is to use these, the friction of your shoes against the flat surfaces, and the jedi mind trick to somehow make progress. Quite a lot of thought involved, and many of those thoughs are"I can't possibly do this without falling off - oh wait, I *just* can..."
