DISQUS

I just checked it out, and asides from fluffy clothing and warm sleeping bags, I was surprised to see no climbing gear.

Hey Sara,

I've been struggling with two issues recently. Currently my climbing abilities seem to be maxing out. Usually if I climb any harder I will tire out really fast and/or start to injure my fingers from the additional strain that thee routes demand. How can I overcome this limitation and move on to become one of those insane climbers that you seen in all the cool-kid videos?

The second thing that I am having troubles with is falling. Well, not falling in general, but falling on lead. I can fall while top-roping until the cows come home, and I usually do so much the cows get bored. But what about lead climbing? Even the faintest thought about falling on lead freaks the heck out of me. I'm curious what you have done to help get over this irrational fear.


Thanks!
jovino

I have found that the routes that have caught my eye have had large, slopy holds on them. I see them and I decide that I want to climb it. Sometimes I'll see something in the route that suggests a great sequence of moves and I want to do it.

Most times I'll attempt to onsite routes and not even look at it before hopping on. I like just figuring it out as I go and not worrying about mapping it out in my head. Even when I do that, I wind up forgetting everything once I'm on it no matter how much checking out I do at the base I do beforehand.

Another thing that gets me excited is certain areas (of the gym). There's a few sections of the walls where the setters to very specific things. In the bouldering area there is a defined "technical" section, a slopy part with an arete and a corner that I love to play on. All the problems in these sections are totally inspiring to me. In the main area of the gym, there is a roof pitch that is typically set at 11d Lead-only that I LOVE to work on. The last problem took me three weeks to finally get, and it feels so good to accomplish something like this.

So, for me, it's all over the place. Onsite, redpoint, bouldering, top-rope and lead. Basically, I just like to climb routes with great moves and sequences.

I had a similar experience at Planet Granite, San Francisco a few months back. Many of the routes weren't graded, so it felt like a crap shoot. I think they had a similar point structure to a rating system.

Of course, you need to consider that two problems rated the same will be the same difficulty to you to send. Every person has different strengths and techniques, so they will be successful at different types of settings.

As far as soloing goes, I hear you. All I can offer is support and say just keep at it. Eventually you'll start to see the same people and you'll get to know them and perhaps you'll start to work on problems together. Heck, even strangers can serve this purpose. I've spotted and worked on problems with people I didn't even know, and it was certainly good time for us both.

I smell a t-shirt!

It annoys me that something this nice turns out to be a sponsored advertisement for the cleaning product.

Thanks for posting these! Or, thanks to Slideshare.

June (JetKat) told me about your presentation and I was eager to see it. I just now found the presentation which is pretty interesting. I also have an LED sign online that is connected to the internet on two different sites. For the most part, we get fun messages but there is always the occasional fuckwit comment here and there. Spam used to be an issue, but not so much at the present (yay filters).

I'd love to talk with you more about your sign since you managed to do much more with it than I have with mine (so far). Drop me a line... or a message to my sign.

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We have a fire alarm bell for a door bell. It's pretty rad; especially in a large space. BBRRAANNGG!!

pwned

http://www.neighborhoodies.com/improv-everywher...
Product not found!

Looks like neighborhoodies has caved in already. I suppose this is all moot now.

I'm no lawyer, but from my experience with issues like this, BB is playing the role of the bully even though they do not have any grounds behind their letter. It's obvious that the shirts that you are "linking to" are different than the one used by BB. I suppose if you want to fuck with them further, you can remove the large logo and keep linking to the shirts. That is precisely what they requested, right?

p.s. the URL for the image is: http://jovino.com/laneHartwell.jpg

It's impossible to stop people from stealing your stuff when it's published online. Even the trickiest obfuscation scripts and tactics cannot stop a determined person from accessing the files and downloading them. Watermarking only slows them down. If someone really wants your image, they'll take it.

I spent about 15 minutes with the above image and was able to remove a great deal of the watermark. If I spent another 15 minutes, it would be gone entirely.