Climbers: Bing, King, Sean
Venue: Camp5
Featured Climbers: Chris
Guests: Tua
Today's climb was particularly fun, because we met up with Chris! Chris is one crazy climber who loves to do crazy stunts like dyno'ing downwards, sms'ing while belaying, and speed climbing. He's a regular here at camp5 and is well known to most of the members and staff.
Chris
So the day's climb started with me, King and Chris going over to the bouldering wall and playing 'add-on'. The game is simple: The first person picks 2 hand holds and 2 foot holes and then traverses/climbs to 2 more holds. The next person then climbs the exact same route, and then simply adds 2 more for the next climber to follow on. If the climber falls while attempting a route, then he forfits his chance of adding 2 for that round. The winner would be the one that accomplishes a route that no one can.
Later on, Sean and his friend Tua (which is his actual surname) came along and joined us. Tua isn't exactly a newbie as he has been for OBS (out bounds school), where he learned the basics of belaying and repelling. While King and Sean went through the basics with him, Chris and I went to the castle wall near the trad wall to do some top ropes. After that, it wasn't long before Tua started doing 5c trails!
Tua and his 5c accomplishment
Of course the highlight of the day was not a trail, but an incident that happened at the bouldering section. A marshal was taking a couple and their little daughter for a tour of the climbing gym when they came to the bouldering section. So as the marshal demonstrated how bouldering was done in general, he then showed them how to properly jump of a boulder rock onto the boulder mat. The rest of the story is best illustrated with the self drawn comic below:
Of course we waited till they left before we laughed. But our laughs were more like subtle giggles rather than loud bursts of haha's - contrary to what is depicted in the comic.
We finished climbing at 11pm and headed to DJ for some tai chao. Unfortunately we were so exhausted and hungry that we forgot to take pictures for the food review. Oh well, there's always next time!
More to come: next week we feature a climb at The Summit's rock climbing gym.
10 comments:
ahahahahahahaha...
this will never go away in my memories...
(BTW, she's wearing a full harness isn't she???)
That poor little girl, being thrown against her will lol.
And yes, she was wearing a full harness... but when i was drawing it, it kinda looked like an irish-suspenders-thinggi, so i decided to change it.
LOL!!!!!!
man i wish i was there
Oh man.. that's golden! Coming drawn by eubing, nice one man!
That was just so funny! I like the drawings too.. and I'm pretty sure it's EuBing's work, since he's full of "stickman crap and jokes" :P keep it up guys.
Oy! Bing say wanna bring me to rock climb 1 day ... Is the offer still on? =D Looks fun! Next time when i'm in KL ok?! haha
hahahhahah thats funny
that is so funny.. but poor little girl...
Oh no, the poor thing!
Do you wear harnesses when bouldering though? As far as I know, it's dangerous to do that since you can fall and injure yourself on carabinas, chalkbags, or other bits of gear hanging off your harness. I doubt the little girl had gear on her harness, but surely it should be a matter of principle?
J xx
Well she was wearing a full harness actually with no gear. But as the comic depicted, she didn't boulder at all. She was simply just 'thrown' onto the cushion =-)
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