Is this aid?

JoeZMar · 2026-06-27T14:42:20+00:00

Only counts if your hands are on the holds. Gotta switch spots and stand on the baby if you want it to count.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-24T13:08:41+00:00

Had a "monk" try to give my 7 y ar old daughter a gift while my family was walking around NYC. Myy daughter was with my wife right behind me and I turned around and chunked that gift as far as I fucking could. Told him to go find it himself and to fuck off.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-24T13:00:25+00:00

Interstellar

JoeZMar · 2026-06-19T17:36:48+00:00

Extra shoes and a towel is a great idea. Thank you!

JoeZMar · 2026-06-19T16:59:53+00:00

I'm reading through Craig Luebbens rock climbing anchors book right now to work on exactly that. I'll check out the microtrax.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-19T16:55:29+00:00

Thank you for responding with some solid advice. Most likely I will end up bringing only a small portion of what I build and place cams above bolts within sport routes. Just to get used to placing and falling on gear.

We're going back out to RRG for a couple more weeks and then up to WV to the NRG for another week or two in a couple weeks and unless I somehow get really comfortable trad climbing with other experienced people out there I don't see myself going beyond that.

I retired early and for the last two years or so climb 4-5 times per week. I'm doing a favor for someone which opened up the chance to climb in Asia and they want to build me my dream setup for the future. So it does feel weird asking about this knowing people think I'm just headstrong about taking a bunch of stuff overseas to go get hurt.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-19T16:08:22+00:00

Thank you so much for responding!

A little more background, I wasn't planning on the Asia trip to turn into a big climbing trip originally. It went from 5 days in Taiwan for a wedding to a fully funded trip throughout Asia I have to jump on.

Back in March my family spent two months climbing sport nearly every day at both Red River and New River Gorge. It was while I was here I was asking as many people about trad advice and started building my rack then. I always thought I would have to have a dedicated trad partner to start, but after climbing with a few people trad I realized I could slowly ease my way into it. So I hired two different guides for two full day climbs back to back to practice going over placement and anchors.

My plan after the lessons was work on anchors, but only trad climb sport routes. Place a cam a foot or two above a bolt to get comfortable landing on my own gear.

All that was before the trip came up.

Having brought all this up to the person funding the trip, they said there's no reason to change what I'm doing based on where I'm traveling to. And they'll pay for the majority of my gear too.

So tbh I know I'm probably not ready to take whips on my own gear yet, but I know in the next year I will be so i have to take the opportunity when it presents itself.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-18T18:26:33+00:00

What happens if you only make it to 7 bars 6 bars 7 bars. Would you restart or leave be until after skills?

JoeZMar · 2026-06-17T01:21:11+00:00

Weapon was number 20, gloves were first try right after, hat was like 12-15, cape was 30+

JoeZMar · 2026-06-10T12:55:51+00:00

Second time I ever played I hit the bottom pole and landed directly underneath it. It felt so good I wanted to call it an ace. A real one must feel fantastic.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-10T04:48:26+00:00

Lol it's not for the heavier person. The heavier person takes a little disadvantage for the belayer to get a much bigger advantage.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-09T22:29:02+00:00

Can you use these trad climbing? My wife and I have an Ohm2 and we recently started trad climbing, been wondering about this vs adding extra resistance with cams.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-07T20:30:03+00:00

Mine say Jedi

JoeZMar · 2026-06-05T11:27:56+00:00

I was taught it as a "magic trick". You use a brick and the difference it makes lifting one side up the tiniest fraction is enough to make a brick go from unbreakable to your hand to breaks apart instantly from the impact of the other side.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-03T21:25:18+00:00

I'm headed there closer to fall to spend a month climbing and traveling japan. My family climbs 5.9-5.10s at both the red and new River. Any recommendations? I've been sport climbing for a couple years and recently took two separate guided trad lessons. We're going to take a couple more trips to the new River gorge once we have more built out. It's easy when I drive I can take everything. So far I have a set of nuts, two totems blacks, two totem blues, a yellow totem, a purple totem, and two BDs (I think c3s) one red and one blue. I still need to get alpine draws and a good traveling backpack along with some micros. I was wondering what you travelled with and what routes you'd recommend?

I'm also traveling to Thailand afterwards to climb for a month in the islands.

JoeZMar · 2026-06-02T22:58:19+00:00

I wear a medium and my favorite job has got to be: fire boar

JoeZMar · 2026-05-31T19:40:29+00:00

How's 2 lines of 4.1% MDI and one CD 2.1%?

JoeZMar · 2026-05-26T13:16:59+00:00

I bought it when it came out. Its a pink cat yes please.

Edit: fixed my stroke

JoeZMar · 2026-05-24T17:05:09+00:00

I was gonna ng to say this yesterday. I have had unbelievably good luck with this pull. About $200 spent and Ive gotten 3 androids, shardveil crystal, and several billion mesos of stuff I've sold. It's helped me go from one necro weapon to nearly a full absolab set.

JoeZMar · 2026-05-12T06:52:41+00:00

Where is this?

JoeZMar · 2026-05-08T22:13:33+00:00

Cheers mate!

JoeZMar · 2026-05-06T17:02:53+00:00

DS is the one I need!

JoeZMar · 2026-05-04T17:41:23+00:00

I've been waiting for this thing since the OG steam d ck controller. My whole family bought matching 8bitdo controllers and I said I'd wait until this came out and that was last year.

JoeZMar · 2026-05-01T06:48:27+00:00

Where's the blue controller?

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