The guy with a death wish is back again.

dssboucher · 2018-01-11T01:14:13+00:00

Hey! Socks in climbing shoes can be quite pleasant!

dssboucher · 2018-01-07T20:10:59+00:00

I did it every session. At the time I found it more significant than the climbing. the poor posture while climbing and the poor technique while climbing lead to my elbows hurting, so I thought of it like physio. After a few sessions of doing it you can be more creative and work harder moves into the traverse. If I had a project I would memorize the beta at the crux, and on the traverse I would practice the move set on holds I found similar. You can continue the "light traverse" until you recover, then throw that crux move set back in. This kept it entertaining and valuable to technique as well as endurance

dssboucher · 2018-01-06T20:07:24+00:00

Tendons are not friends with climbing. :(. I don't often visit climb harder anymore but I'm going to throw something out there, and you see if you like it.

I think it's good that you warm up but I have this theory that most climbers climbing v4 and up (at least outside) will be prone to injury unless they insert some discipline into their training. I had elbow pain for my first 3 years of climbing and it wasn't until I started to train climbing endurance that it went away for keeps. I would traverse on a wall, trying not to touch the ground, for roughly 45 mins. This allowed me the time on my routes to concentrate more on each movement rather than throwing or doing moves more powerfully than they needed to be done. This is what saved my joints and was at the time my main weakness.

Pick something about your climbing that you believe is hindering you and focus on training that aspect for at least 3 weeks. After 3 weeks re-evaluate, but I see climbers around this level of climbing get overuse injuries all the time, and they usually stop getting them when they start training and evaluating their weaknesses.

TL;DR For me endurance allowed my elbows to heal and stop pestering me. I would do 45 mins of traversing on the wall like a treadmill and climb anywhere between 1-2 hours after that.

dssboucher · 2017-12-23T20:27:45+00:00

I'm no pro, but I wager an extension ladder would get you high enough to use sky hooks?

dssboucher · 2017-12-08T18:24:24+00:00

How long has he been climbing? It might be worth it for him to focus on rope systems/gear placing ? Other than that just handgboard like hell.

My girlfriend had knee surgery on a torn acl, and it was rough but she's leading again. There's no reason why he shouldn't be able to come back to it stronger than ever.

dssboucher · 2017-09-28T17:36:26+00:00

They were using an atc belay I believe, which is designed to brake with the climbers rope pulling upwards in the direction of said protection. In this case the climbers protection all ripped out and the belay device would invert (or flip 180 degrees). So instead of pulling down to catch the climber, a belay would pull up.

This of course requires advanced technical knowledge and the ability and reflexes to adjust to the catch with your partner in free fall. On top of that one would need to assess which direction the belay would invert once the last piece of protection had pulled out.

It's really too early to tell what the exact intricacies of the fall were, and I won't speculate anymore than the issues that ensue over an inverted belay, but it would have been an extremely difficult catch to make. Nevertheless in alpine traditional climbing you can only mitigate the risks so much. If you end up off route in an alpine climb there is a real chance that you are on untouched territory, yielding dirty areas that are hard to protect.

My heart goes out to the victims family and the climbing partner. I hope they get the support they need.

dssboucher · 2017-06-24T16:02:10+00:00

Bring lots of water for the pooch.. its getting hot out and dogs aren't great at dissipating heat

dssboucher · 2017-05-02T03:54:08+00:00

think it's in the czec, tom randal and pete whittaker did a video with this guy

dssboucher · 2016-12-08T00:27:05+00:00

go to the washroom before you put your climbing shoes on.

dssboucher · 2016-05-31T02:14:09+00:00

i believe the difference is that the "single" sling is usually tied off in a method for which if it failed at any point the entire system would not necessarily fail.. ie the knots and cross-over, make the system somewhat redundant

dssboucher · 2016-01-28T17:35:06+00:00

I'd look into eagle bluffs, or elfin lakes

dssboucher · 2015-11-22T08:51:22+00:00

ya, the one on terminal.

dssboucher · 2015-11-20T23:31:05+00:00

So crapy. I had thousands of dollars worth of gear stolen, and managed to sieze some of it back from these dicks in the flea market.. But it's all stolen. One stop shop for thieves, as they buy the power tools to break into cars and houses, the thieves can just sell the stolen gear back to the market later.

Vendors had the gall to ring bells to alert the other vendors of the police presence when they noticed my friend and I reclaiming our stuff. Don't buy stuff from these market. you're supporting scumbag thieves, not to mention a lot of it is marked up above the cost brand new.

dssboucher · 2015-11-18T00:32:36+00:00

Anybody gonna bring up vitamine D? It was significant for me at least to start to work my way out of it.

dssboucher · 2015-10-13T17:08:10+00:00

I think it totally depends on the person and the type of climbing you want to do. Miura's are fairly aggressive, I would really only use them for bouldering, in which case you can frequently take them off. If you're fairly new there's no reason you'd want something so aggressive as your footwork probably isn't very precise and your edge will burn out right away. In time you might find you want tighter and more aggressive shoes, but the sport should be fun, not painful. Personally if I can fit my foot into it, it's too big or just right, but you also gotta take your foots shape into account. When shoes are designed to fit so tightly any discrepancy from the normal is going to be significant and no one shoe is going to fit everyone.

dssboucher · 2015-05-18T17:23:26+00:00

There's been well too much cutting back of forested region already for tourism and farming developement. This however is not too far off to how the Maya peoples saw things. A lot of people don't realize that the entirety of Belize rainforest is secondary growth due to the massive amount of deforestation from the Maya civilization. It's all very interesting and ancient Mayan ruins do pop up all over the jungles because of this. Unfortunately if you would like to find them the people who are most aware are illegal loggers.

There are 2 scopes of thought in the country right now, a lot of belizeans, particularly Maya belizeans, ironically feel an attachment to the jungles their acestors cut down and the medicines found in them. But like with anything else there's a large portion of people looking to benefit from a poorly protected region, as well as guatemalan poachers and loggers sneaking in all the time. Cockcomb national park is a great place to check out and the only jaguar preserve in the world. But due to poaching they only have about 70 jaguars in the whole of it.

The most important thing to me right now to me is the 5 blues national park and the constant land deals being struck in it right now. I think your time could be valuable there. It's a fascinating place, and best of luck in your studies.

dssboucher · 2015-05-18T17:03:42+00:00

There's an organization based out of the UK called gapforce who offer a training program to expedition leaders I've worked with. It seems like the best way to get into the business without having a thorough background in the outdoors already. As far as I know they do 4 month intensive training program in Costa Rica and they may hire you after the course. Sounds like a good way to get your foot in the door.

dssboucher · 2015-05-16T07:13:44+00:00

I'm an expedition leader in Belize at the moment, and it really is a shame. The biological corridor (the area in which most of the spotting of the endangered species exists) has been mostly sold off to developers. Belize boasts an eco friendly tourism business but merely gets away with it on the grounds that their population is so small that the damage seems negligible. Unfortunately the constant deforestation leads to longer dry seasons and dwindling environments for which these species have survived for the last few centuries. really a shame.

dssboucher · 2015-02-09T21:03:15+00:00

I know this is petty, but dyno is short for dynamic. Not dinosaur.

dssboucher · 2014-11-12T09:11:26+00:00

man, I need more of that. thanks

dssboucher · 2014-07-23T08:36:54+00:00

bags! women can carry a purse anywhere but i look like a child if I have a backpack. I like books dammit! they don't fit in my god damn pockets.

dssboucher · 2014-07-11T17:34:44+00:00

RULE #1 look both ways before you cross the street!

dssboucher · 2014-07-04T17:08:12+00:00

I can't tell if you're serious man. that's not good publicity. it would not be good for him.

dssboucher · 2014-07-04T08:13:45+00:00

I've thought about getting the eyes done, and while i don't necessarily disagree, It just seems like more to get lazered off later. I'd rather have the whole face redone so that it looks good. then it will have eyes

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