Monday, May 7, 2007

A quickie of the climbing type!

Venue: Camp5
Climbers: Bing, King, Sean
Featured friends: Japanese dude, Kent


We apologize for the late posting and lack of updates, but Monash University loves to kill their students with this 'thing' called 'assignments'. Initially this 'thing' appears completely harmless, but it is for this very reason that it is able to pounce on its victims at the very last minute, when their prey seem completely relaxed.

But anyhow, we still managed to climb last Friday! However I had to leave early to head over to Qba for some Quban beats! King however continued climbing with Sean.

Nonetheless, it was great! (while i was there of course). At first we canceled our climb because i couldn't make it, as I had plans after. But temptation gave in, and before i knew it i was in camp5 with King!


Sometimes temptations give such abundant pleasure!

Since we didn't have much time as i had to leave at 7:15pm, King and I decided to just do some crazy bouldering today. We warmed up with some basic traversing. It was not long before we were playing 'add-on' with our new Japanese friend. Unfortunately we forgot his name, and we were so busy playing that we forgot to take pictures. But hey, here's a self drawn picture that most accurately illustrates us:


illustration may differ slightly from reality

Anyway, our Japanese friend had to leave early, so King and I went to climb in the bouldering cave. The bouldering cave at camp5 have some awesome routes and trails that you must try out. We hardly boulder in the cave, so we actually made lotsa cool trails. We experimented with some of the overhangs and did some foot positioning training.


Part of the bouldering cave


King and I trying out some of the overhang routes


Of course it wasn't long before Sir Sean appeared. He seemed to have a particular grin on his face that day. It wasn't hard to figure out why - He had just gotten his rock climbing gear from Singapore! Apparently you can get gear there at a cheaper rate. However, Sean's from Johor (just above Singapore), so he just ran across the border to get em.



Sean's harness and shoes. All the gear can be viewed in detail when the 'profile' section is completed.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you'd be able to catch a nice shot of the sky from camp5.


Beautiful sky. But hey, whatever makes you happy. It's all relative.

Coming back to climbing, we soon met up with Kent. He's another regular at camp5 and is one heck of a climber. He tries his best to come to camp5 at least twice a week to boulder and climb, and he's really experienced. He taught us a few new techniques which is easy to do if you were the rubber man. He also introduced us to a cool route which would help us practice this technique. Basically, you're required to heel hook your hand holds before grabbing the next one.



clockwise from top left: Kent; King showing the starting position; Red route - supposed to bring left foot up to where the left hand is, then left hand reaches for overhang dark red; Kent finishing the trail.

Kent later went on to show us the 'UB40' trail (or at least that what i think i heard), which is the longest bouldering trail there. Unfortunately the last part of the trail was taken down, but there's still a good 3/4 left. It starts from behind the pillar above, at leads all the way to the campus training boards.


Kent almost reaching the end of the route.

That was pretty much our Friday climb last week at camp5 yet again! There's always something new to try and something new to experience each time we go there. Next we'd feature a little something from camp5's campus training section in the bouldering cave.


14 comments:

Joey said...

Wow, good overhangs! I have to say, bouldering is NOT my favourite part of climbing, but you guys keep going! They've just had the IFSC European Bouldering Championships here in March... man, can those Ukranian women climb!

J xx

trowa said...

lolz... 'sir' Sean??? i dun think i can live up to that name anyway...

maybe i'm getting old d... thts why my routes kept shrinking to lesser lesser every trip... wahhaha...

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Eu Bing said...

thanks 'old friend of King'!

We will definitely be looking forward to checking that place out.

Unknown said...

i hate you eu bing and king shung. die in a fire

Anonymous said...

Oh, that old friend of mine must be Li Jian, haha. Gotta agree with assignment killing us, we're not even climbing this week >.< And btw bing, that "japanese friend" of ours, his name is Sho. =P

Anonymous said...

lolz... whats with that 'hate you eu bing and king shung?' thingie???

when's the next climb before MY turn to get showered with assignments???

Eu Bing said...

he's just jealous that i've got a cutter ass than he does haha.

love the ross, hate the evil.

Anonymous said...

hey, I just stumbled across your blog. I'm an avid climbers studying in Singapore. But I'm a malaysian who comes back to climb now and then. Might see you guys in camp5 sometime! When are u guys usually there?

Eu Bing said...

haha nice to have you here rogue.
We usually climb on fridays consistently every week, but we sometimes climb on mondays and tuesdays also.

do drop us an email at verticalrising@gmail.com when u're going to be coming into town. It's always a pleasure to meet other climbers.

Anonymous said...

podaaabearrr king! guess who?
anyways, really admire that guys can rockclimb. i cant climb for nuts. and thats why, king shung, you are PODABEAR! =)) the climbing monkey :) worship. oh, by the ways, cute drawing. haha! anyways, really think its awesome that you guys can climb that well. :) admiree much! :) keep up the good worrrk.

Anonymous said...

What the... your entered your name and you asked me to guess who? Haha! Oh well, anyone can climb, it's really easy =). If you got time, why dont you come along, and bring that brother of yours. Ain't good to just play games every day =P

Joey said...

Nicole: Hey, I climb, and I'm a girl! :P

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