Monday, July 23

What's with the Upside-down Jugs?

There's this sick habit of climbers in NUS, not restricting to the team, of turning nice decent jugs into something else other than a jug, like underclings, slopy pinches, bad side-pulls. We need more jugs, then jugs are bought and put up as underclings. Right. Could someone please put more decent holds in decent orientations after the next clean-up?

This reminds me of impressions from other climbers that NUS climbers are strong. Well, even though I'd like to say "that's not true", there is a little truth in it. Not everyone are strong, I for one, am weak. *cough* Fat and weak. *cough*cough*

A few reasons why some NUS climbers are strong:
1. Not by choice - the tiles are placed until like that, don't become strong how to climb?
2. Strong Dinos - Climb with strong people sure become stronger also
3. Knowledgable Dinos - Can learn a lot on route reading, techniques and training methods from them
4. Passion - Want to become stronger so that we can climb more routes and enjoy climbing more
5. Inspiration - NUS team climbers simply dig watching climbing videos, gaining lots of inspiration. Alas, I'm not really into watching those, still got several giggs of videos collected but still unwatched, which may be why I'm still weak.

Disclaimer: This post is written cos I'm too bored and got nothing better to do, it is just for entertainment and by no means reflect the whole truth.

On a side note, you all may notice a nice owl-clock in the gym, replacing our old worn-out and quite koyak yellow clock. I'd like to express thanks to Liu Li's friend Sun Zheng (one of our regular recre climbers) for contributing it to the gym. Though I think in one year the grey owl will turn into a snowy owl.

Guys, remember the drinking session on Tuesday night! And I mean guys only... =)