First you have a bunch of walls, 4 in this case, built somewhere the public can view. This time was the amphitheatre at vivo city.The crowd plays a pretty important role, somehow you can climb better when people are shouting for you.
This type of short wall climbing is called bouldering.You dont need ropes and your protection is from mattresses.Your objective is to use the given hand holds and footholds (some which are impossibly small) to get up the wall. Your judged on how many attempts you make to get to the top. If you can do it at the first try, its called a flash. Various categories cater for your level of skill. Novice, intermediate, and open. The latter being for the pros.
Anyway the first route was where I grabbed one of the tiles, and heard a sharp crack .Even the spotter heard it and made a face.haha..What a way to start, well thankfully for my good friend adrenaline, the pain and swelling didnt come till much later.
The 2nd route was interesting, and it involved a cross hand to a sloper (weird, hard to hold tile) This was where I realised that though you dont feel pain, your injured finger doesnt want to grip stuff. So well, the sloper was the furthest i got.
3rd route was technical, meaning it involves alot of technique and balance. Held the tile the wrong way round so that was the furthest i got.
and the last, 4th route was the most fun. I was quite worried cos of the left hand finger pocket, (left finger was the one sprained) but heck i grabbed it anyway.From there its a dyno (sort of jump), some heel hooking (using your heel to grip stuff), and a bit of balance, and its done. The only flash in the whole comp
And that was it, the red cross people couldnt do more than give me ice for my finger, which is still sprained as i type. I hate injuries like this.
Will be on to camps in the next few posts..together with more food entries.
Til then.