The JOY in Climb On '07

A BEEG HELLO to one and all! dunno if you guys (the juniors) know me since i seldom appear in the gym and mostly only see u guys during events when i go down and support the team. oh well, i'm already a dino (kinda extinct) but still lurrve the sport and obviously the ppl. a warm welcome to all u juniors to the team, and i hope you'll have the time of your life in this amazing cave of ours! if you haven't already loved the team/sport, i bet you'll grow to love both in time to come!

it was great seeing the juniors enjoying themselves (though i dunno many), esp after completing the route. the seniors being oh-so-serious in sending as many routes possible within their means. pushing their limits. breaking barriers. you go climbers!

Getting the right technique is especially impt. their sit-in positions were nice (adrian's wasn't counted tho.. )

(above) This photo is specially for ZX >

(below)Shumei > displaying her prowess The beloved captain > above the rest
SmiLes in between climbs =]

Fun after the event =D


As always, the cute couple > Ed & Charl. (hmm.. just a thought, any upcoming couples to be formed for team 07/08 ? *winks*)

*TEAM NUS!*

Lastly, here are Cher's after thoughts..

(P.S. Adrian! pls stop your ultraman pose alr.. u look so silly!!!)

my post! (kenneth sim btw)

well, i guess it's my turn eh?
the five(5) things that you may or may not want to know about me.

(1) i am quite a tech geek. i love computer stuff, and i am actually a MCSA @ the moment, although so far, i haven't been able to do anything with it, except work for Singtel to do on-site installations for wireless routers. any problems with computer, i will try to help i guess? haha. (me and my friend from smu are doing some freelance IT maintenance works for companies over the weekend, so that's why may not be able to attend trainings on sat sometimes. haha.)

(2) i am a pretty quiet person i guess, so maybe i will seem dao to some of you, but just talk to me more and i will end up to be ultimately crappy. haha. as in if i don't talk to you, is because i am dao or wad, but cause i cannot remember names for nuts. and so paiseh to ask the person's name. haha.

(3) i am not a language guy. more of a engineering guy i guess. i suck at english, chinese and dialects (canto and hokkien). conversational still not an issue. whenever exams come, i will just buang all the writing part.

(4) i am more of a jack of all trades, master of none kind of guy. that's why i like to take part adventure race. all aspects of outdoor adventure tested, and to understand the meaning of teamwork. haha. literally. fun fun =)

(5) i love to travel. been to several places so far since i finished my army, but most notable should be my backpacking trip that lasted for 48 days..other than the 10 days in taiwan. eat and eat and eat.haha..as for the backpacking trip..it is quite off the track i guess, not the traditional backpacking circuit in south east asia.

i started this wonderful journey in india , new delhi, with 3 other vjc odac friends. covered the most of northern india i guess. soon after, we crossed the border to enter nepal, and spent another 2 wks just chilling in nepal,just nua-ing there and playing bridge/shithead the whole time there. did a short trek in nepal as well though.

subsequently, went to tibet! beautiful and scenic country. haha. was snowing at night at some passes though. the main city in lhasa was just like, another beijing. it was pretty modern, had shopping centres, convenience stores, LAN shops and stuff, just unexpected of a place high up in the mountains @ 3000m. but all in all, a beautiful place.

then went to china (xi'an) only to see the terra cota, and went to hk whereby it wasn't a backpacking trip but a shopping trip rather. haha. spend and eat money like nobody business. and then came back home from hk. wished that i could backpack all the way back, but no more money. haha.

anyone who are interested to see the photos, just feel free to ask for them. i have 6000+ photos. and developed 300 though. yup.

and the next person posting shall be....geraldine! (vjc schoolmate. the person who set up something that i couldn't in vjc. haha. ended up having fun in odac.)

cheers!
kenneth sim

Climb On

I was in my room till 11 am trying to do FYP readings. My fingers were sweating and I couldn't concentrate on anything as my thoughts were of Zhengxin(my nemesis) flashing route after route(my nightmare) and I finally couldn't take it any more.

So I shot down to Climb On with nothing but my Climbing shoes and it was great fun. Good atmosphere, familiar faces and fantastic routes. Although I couldn't complete many, I learned about my strengths and weaknesses and now, I've got some new plans for senior training.. let's all grow stronger together!

I was also very glad to see some freshies (Doris, Geraldine and Daffodil) so enthusiastic about completing routes. Good attitude!

More Climb On afterthoughts?

Skål - Skaal (Cheers!)

Here is Christer's Swedish Meal:

My poor quality pictures did not do justice to the food, cos the food was brillant! The meatball was much softer than I_E_'s, the sauce with it was fabulous. The whipped potato was really filling, and the small bites of dessert was just great. The evening was well-spent due to the presence of friends and alcoholic drinks. Christer, what do you call those raw fish in the yellow sauce?

Happy Birthday, Nita!

(CLIMB ON)

5 things about e i L e e n

Here goes!

First off, a picture to match my name and my face!

My friend and i engaged in a STARING competiton.
i'm the one on the right btw. the longer hair de.

1) I like anime and mangas.
totally rocks manz. If only text books were mangas? *eileen's eyes sparkle*
If only there were modules in nus , such as ANI1101E or MAN1101E, I will definitely throw in all my bid points to get those modules!! I read both Shoujus and shounens. And NO, I do not read hentai (Just in case you're wondering) Hmm... despite the fact that I like anime and manga that that that much, I own very few mangas and animes. Why? cox you see, technology has brought about crunchyroll, youtube, vnmanga etc etc :D free downloads and viewing. Woot! Yesh yesh, I knw, I am very giam..

2) I am quite accident prone.
I tend to get or-chae (blue blacks). I fell off the flight of stairs beside the central library this monday. Soo..this explains the huge or-chae on my shin now. That or-chae is spectacular (by my standards). It measured 7.5cm at the 2 furthest ends a couple of days after the fall. Later, after rubbing it summore, it measured 9 cm at the 2 furthest ends.
Thankfully that or-chae is fading now *phew!*

3) I can burp out loud?
yeah yeah.. its uncouth, unglam, unsightly, unsoundly....
*looks ard innocently*

4) For now, MAMBO rocks!
Nope, I do not frequent zouk on Wednesday nights. In fact, I've never clubbed in the past 19 yrs of my life -_-. Yup.. but mambo is just nice. I learnt some of the mambo moves during o week. And yupp.. that's where the liking for mambo started..

5) I keep a pocket dictionary in my bag.
Its usually in my bag. Yupps unless someone takes it out without notifying me.. the dictionary comes to good use when I am reading those readings that are filled with cheam cheam words..

Okie! Tt's all.. *Eileen looks ard*...and *Eileen points to Kenneth*.
you're up next!

ps : its really random, because i decided the pick the 27th person from the team listing, by going 1.5 rounds ard the junior guys and girls contacts. yupp.

5 random things about Doris

1) I dig the colour yellow. I think it was because I was in yellow house in primary school, and then once again during the 4 memorable years in seconday school; was made captain for the house in both primary and secondary school, so kinda had to face the colour yellow a lot of times whenever house stuff came up. When faced with an abundance of something, one will either hate it, or love it. I chose to love it. Yellow is a nice colour. :)

2) I like playing nice computer/console games, albeit selectively and on reccomendation. Currently loving Command and Conquer 3 and totally loving the Metal Gear Solid series. And oh, Doris is praying for a bubble-wrapped PS3 to land at her feet, bundled with the smallest full HD television available, which leads to point 3...

3)...I'm more of an idealist than a pragmatist. I like to dream and pray for it to come true. And when my desire is there, I'll work pretty darn hard for it/them.

4) My grasp of Chinese is kinda slippery. After 6 freaking years of Higher Mother Tongue, all I managed was a miserable F9 for the O Levels. There, I permit anyone to laugh at me for a while only please thank you. But I can speak Chinese to save my life. Bu yao sha wo, wo shi wu gu de! (Translation: dont't kill me, I'm innocent)

5) I like trekking, for example, heading to Malaysia to climb the small Gunungs (mountains in Malay) over there. It started when I was in JC ODAC and this love only developed late J2 (I had been through a hellish expedition in Malaysia late J1 climbing XX mountains in the monsoon period in XX number of days...the trip was really gruelling...so the love took a while to get ignited.) My mind kinda goes half-blank while trekking... it's a nice feeling in contrast to feverish studying... and to quote what my JC teacher would say, don't climb a mountain to conquer it. Does one really conquer the mountain? The mountain is forever and so much bigger than you. You are just a twitchy being going up this ever-winding path to the summit. Instead... let your weaknesses be conquered by the mountain... learn to overcome your weaknesses in order to be a better asset to the team and be a better moral (or even physical) support to the other people who might be struggling to ascend the mountain. In fact, my ODAC group did thank-you push-ups to thank the mountain. Sounds kinda odd but well...it's respect to the mountains and nature itself.

Er I better stop cos I could keep typing forever when I talk about my beloved ODAC... So I shall now tag Eileen!

PS: Heng Hong you so didn't pick me randomly okay. Haha.

Laughter Yoga?

Hi guys!! take a break from mugging!! let us all destress by laughing!! Enjoy..

Helloo~


as arrowed by edwin im supposed to post 5 things that u guys dunno about me... yup

hmmm..........actually i just really wrote 5 things about myself... in point form.. but den i went back to read the rest of the stuff u guys wrote last time ... hahah must write so much ahh...

okie here goes....

1)im never late...mmm... v seldom ..haha
i dunno y but since young i have this BAD HABIT of reaching meeting places early or just on time... unless i really get caught up in something unexpected... if not ill most prob be there on time... coz i always get v kan jiong when i get late... yup..

2) i love music
yup... i cant live without it... english songs / chinese songs i listen to them all.. altho my fav genre is still pop.. but i do listen to some other genre here and there... as i get introduced to them ...yup... i like to be in my room playing guitar and singing to myself.. hahah.. fun =)

3)im a follow-the-crowd person
too lazy to decide haha... so just follow loh... hahah..i feel that as long as theres good company it doesnt matter where to go... anywhere is fun...haha so u dun have to convince me to go.. just ask my friends to ask me along can liao.. haha..the numbers matter~ =P.. i do make some decisions on my own...but im quite random coz i rather use my brain on daydreaming... hahah... my favourite question...
WHOS GOING?

4)i did try bungee jumping before... hahaha
yup... when i was in New zealand after my a lvls with my odac friends... me and my other friend decided to try the leap of faith... haha .. 134m nevis bungy(highest at that time) down a ravine frm a hanging cable car... experience of a lifetime... its just like jumping off a damn tall building without dying... hahaha... 9 sec of free fall... S$200 .. lol... with a t-shirt and a video =)
not gonna do it again tho... hahahahah scary

5)running outta things to say...hmm.. ahhh yes~! i need a ipod touch omg... i d/led the video for the tour it and its so freakin cooooooool....its got everything.... can use it in sch and u dun even need to bring ure laptop... im sure it can access IVLE lol.... just need to bring ure power supply and i think can watch youtube videos and stuff.... and the user interface.. omg.. mac <3 .... and my current ipod mini is really totally cui already.. hahaa cant even control properly hahahaha...

haha i think thats enuff liao... sry i took quite long lol... i dun write blogs one...(6)

and the next person to post is.......doris~!(totally random unlike me kanna arrow)

Adrian's Response

Dear Zheng Xin,

That was July dude. Now is September liao and this is the current one. She has been around for sometime though. Bring your thumbdrive to my room and I will send her over to you.

Adrian's Real Girlfriend

See she so pretty hurhur. I think it is best to get the juniors to post REAL content, rather than the sick, same old bickering between a robot loving zhengxin and the 2D girl loving adrian.

Place your votes people; whom would you prefer to fall in love with: a robot with freaky eyes or a nice 2D girl? Yes people, life has never been sadder.

Adrian, I finally saw your Girlfriend!

After Adrian.....

Here's pictures of our fortnightly feast:


And there's Adrian's two strongest fingers. There was chicken, beef, donkey meat, noodles, la chang, beer, gin, coke......

Before Zheng Xin...

Before Zheng Xin posts a picture of tonight's eating session, I would like to say that today's training's junior girls were nice! They offered to buy us Subway woo~~~

If only girls of my batch like Sandra treat me us that nice >.< lol

Zi Char

Had a great meal after training today.

Happy national day to our Malaysians

i like this part:
"When Malaysians come together and act as one people success is theirs for the taking. When they are divided failure beckons.

If modern Malaysia's leaders remind themselves that unity does not come through threat, discrimination and coercion but through equality and mutual respect they may yet lay the foundations for a glorious 100th birthday"

extract from bbc

Links to climbing sites

Please add more sites!

Dave Macleod- http://onlineclimbingcoach.blogspot.com/

Eric Horst- http://www.trainingforclimbing.com/

Ben Moon- http://www.moonclimbing.com/SchoolRoom.aspx

Katie Brown- http://www.yourclimbing.com/

Hopefully, u won't need this- http://www.climbinginjuries.com/index.htm

Petzl- http://en.petzl.com/petzl/frontoffice/Sport/static/Video/index.jsp

PlanetFear- http://www.planetfear.com/search_articles.asp?at_id=8

http://www.indoorclimbing.com/climbing_training.html

Can't really find good sites totally dedicated to technique. Anyone knows where?

Alvin and Jensen

Alvin does an interesting route that took 7mins! cos strong is lidat. And Jensen tops the King.

Men and Women

I just read an excellent article on the New York Times. Its subject is the discrepancy between the performance of male and female athletes. This article is about running but i think its conclusions are applicable to climbing too. So for your time saving convinence let me summarise it.

Gina Kolata (the author) noted that while the results of men's races correlate with the age, i.e. younger men perform better and kick all the old bastards asses - just ask nf, women's results do not . The correlation breaks down. In one race the fastest woman was 37, and the top female in the 50 -54 group, beat those of the 20-24, 25-29 and 40-44 groups. I think we can all agree that fitness does not peak the middle age in women but not men, so there must be something else to explain this.

The opinion of the author, as well as several others is that women are inhibited psychologically due to social pressure, upbringing, etc. They have been inadvertently conditioned to have less belief in their athletic abilities, should not be as competitive and are inherently weaker compared to males. This could explain why older women can run as fast as or often faster than the younger. They have discovered what they are capable of.

I'm sure you have heard this in the gym. A request to make the route easier for girls. The justification for the request here is quite revealing in my opinion. It assumes that girls are naturally weaker. And i don't mean weaker only in the physical sense. I am trying to argue that this is not true! Beth Rodden FA The Optimists 8c+, our best dude Christer, Jai Dum 8b.

So in conclusion, please consider my humble request dear friends, unleash your inner beast*.

*For more info on unleashing your inner beast please consult John and yours truly.

Ps. I mean no disrespect to the efforts of our girls team.

Voodoo Doll

Zhengxin on Voodoo Doll..The video is quite big cos he took very long to shake out (weak is lidat)

:)

asia's shadow play 8a+

Christer didnt complete it in this try (only on the next) but he got pretty near to the anchor

if got no money to build big wall...this will do also la

let's have this for boulderactive? :)

Cold water treatment

Recently Pengyang posted this link to Dave Macleod's website where he talked about Cold water treatment for injured finger tendons.

I'm sure everyone has been wondering if it works. Well, it sure has worked for me..I've been doing quite a bit of fingerboard recently and although my fingers are not injured, I still do cold water treatment regularly and find that it keeps my fingers very healthy, aids recovery and keeps me on the wall more days a week.

Try it out! :)

Supper!!

Welcome to Climbing Can Cook, So Can You

The star of tonight's show is...

BEIJING ROASTED DUCK (ultra salty edition)

The Cast:



Not in the picture:
1. Photographer(Myself)
2. Vincent, who came down a while later
3. Kesheng
4. Adrian, who was doing "work"

Stay Tuned for the next episode!!

Caleb

Enjoy yourself in SEP. Dun worry about the team, cos they will only get stronger!

Take Care, dude.

team krabi is home

Hi guys!!

It was a magnificent trip to krabi. Some of us climbed hard and some of us sun-tanned hard but i'm sure all of us had fun. Many stories to tell in the days ahead of how christer completed every grade from 6A-8B and how zhengxin completed more than 30 routes! (everygrade from 6A - 7C+). I have much less noteworthy achievements but still feel very satisfied at my improvements in footwork, technique and mental strength thanks to observing both of them.

The beauty of certain routes leaves me smiling at their memory... the best of physical poetry. I miss the perfection of the place :( ..the beach, sea, night breeze, sunsets, and endless sky. Can't wait for the next trip to who knows where!

here's some of us doing deep water solo.


Holidays over for good and for now, it's school and time to train hard once more!

Updates from me

While we lavish in the boredom of being stuck in a rut as some people go climbing with the sea on their back, here are some updates from me.

Matriculation Fair 2007

Matriculation Fair was carried out successfully. All I got was photos of girls in kendo suits sparring as I was too focused on doing a good job recruiting people into climbing. I would had uploaded more kendo girls pictures but this is after all a climbing blog. There were many excited young-lings but at the end of the day, all I want is to be in the arms of an older lady. Note that this is just my viewpoint, I bet others enjoyed themselves silly as they took so little effort to jio people to sign up siah (where is my myojo!). But as always, we can look forward to an exciting year.

Drink Fest 24th July 2007

'I ess drunk only after a whiskey shot kurara.'

There were drinks kindly brought over by Liu Li, Caleb and Ke Sheng. KS also kindly bought chickens (the edible one yum..) and they feasted on them. ZX, the guy above, got tipsy and he fooled around with anything he can see. Luckily most of the victims were understanding and didn't flame us back sob. Anyway this marks an auspicious beginning of another semester of climbing with idiots like above haha.

The Weather

It was rainy a week ago but now, it is mostly cloudy with absolutely no hints of rain. For those who love rainy weather, try going to England where sunny days rarely last for two consecutive days during this period. However, the temperature is not so warm compared to the Jun-July period and this makes life more bearable. I would prefer rainy weathers as I am not in Krabi so I cant be arsed to wish for sunny weathers hmph.

One more week till school reopens!

Sleeping without getting Touched

I laid on the thin mattress that laid on the clean floor, with my heart beating fast.
Then something moved - it was HIM.
He came closer and closer, and I could hardly breathe. 'Die liao, this time confirm kenna SM.'
A huge shadow came before my eyes. Before I could say 'F__ Off', I felt a nice warm comfort.


Adrian just placed a comforter over me. Damn touched in the heart. If you need a sleeping partner or a real nice guy, please head to Blk _, Room 4.2.

zx reli sux

so he got drunk!

and he pirated our msn! me and liuli, gawd and he and ks attempts to edit my posts urgh

pardon those skimpy messages gawd.

see u guys in training argh...............

Speak Good English Movement. Wat-dever.

this video (retrieved from mrbrown.com) will serve as a reminder for all NUS climbers to speak good and proper english. *contains hokkien vulgarities towards the end of the clip. and i seriously thinks he needs help.

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... =)

Random Rhyme

What's your poison?

What's your preference?

For the lack of style

And a point of reference,

And a better substitute for FUN,

Why do you climb?

Spend a day in the sun

Before you've "gotta run".

I choose to move,

Feel alive among the stones

To dance smooth

Across nature's playground

Safe within this fluid zone.

I'd sooner ask why you climb

Before how you'd climb;

Like learning to walk

Before you fly.

Pfft.

Good luck for those taking part in the finals later...

Video entertainment.

For your entertainment, my favorite boulder video. This is Bernd Zangerl on Dreamtime. V15. Sick.


And for comparison, here's Chris Sharma.


And bonus entertainment. Dai Koyamada. My jaw dropped. And ning feng might want to tell him to slow down his climbing.

Not Climbing Related

So this post is not climbing related. But I find this extremely helpful and strangely therapeutic. It may cheer you up after long hours of slogging in ClimbAsia, or you are up in the night due to jetlag, or you got nothing to do but you cannot climb as the fingers hurt, or you are just fretting from Rockamania this coming weekend. I wouldn't say this is, "Highly recommended!!!111" like all the other reviews since it is a cliche lah.

"I heart Adrian muacks"

Lucky Star anime series! It is from the producers of 'The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" and this series started airing around April. There is no story line, kind of like South Park where the director takes a snipe at the things going around him. There is a change of director from the fourth episode, but otherwise the style does not fluctuate much.

I recommend it for people who has a good background on geeky and nerdy stuff...anime, online games...those who are tired from work and all. There is really a distinct sense of cute-ness and realism in this series.

With that, bye-bee!

It is highly recommended!!!111. Argh.






"I think I still heart Adrian."

request

Hello check out this review by dave macleod on 'the self coached climber'

Will it be possible for NUS Climbing to get a small collection of such useful books? - on climbing technique, training methods, mental aspects, recovery etc. Then we can pass it around via short loan (im sure we can work something out)

How to win Rockamania.

Rockamania is coming, and for many of us novice climbers, it's going to be our first vertical comp. And since I hardly climb any vertical, I've been thinking of what to look out for on the wall during the climb.

I wonder which is more responsible for the failure to commit to a move, the fear of heights or the fear of falling. For me, it's the fear of falling and wasting your efforts (the act of falling doesn't scare me at all). Which is why I think it helps to think of the whole route as one big long kickass bouldering problem. Since bouldering is very much about technique and energy-saving, you have to know what position to assume to commit the next move, then be confident and just execute. But the only difference is, there is only one chance. Kinda sucks, but I guess thats the way it works. Meanwhile, dispel all fears of heights and falling. Imagine the mattress is just a metre below you.

Another problem with vertical is not fully utilising the features of the wall as footholds. I think this is a result of a lack of confidence in the foothold. Those tiny spikes or pockets look deceptively slippery, but i guess stepping hard on them when executing the move will help stick it better. And smearing the wall helps when there is no good foothold in sight, and your previous handholds just cannot make it for the next move. But you need plenty of balls la. I need to muster plenty of courage just to dare to smear anything at 10 metres up.

Rest points! Shake out as and when you can, especially when the holds are good and you can find some place to sit in or bridge. Don't tunnel-vision, and keep your mind open while focused at the same time. Slow and steady wins the race. Sometimes, at least.

Practise clipping in. The worse thing to happen up there is being unable to clip in properly, and panic like mad, inducing a sick pump and resulting in a 2-3 clip fall. Enough to make anyone's balls shrink. Find a comfortable position to clip in, rather than hanging on a bad crimp and tiptoe-ing, trying to reach that runner.

That's all I can think of. All these coming from someone who doesn't do vertical much, I hope none of these tips that I came up with from simply thinking and analysing from my bed is crap. Seniors and veterans of vertical comps, please advise! Train hard, train safe!

LoveStruck

<3

care for rock shoes

my first post in a long time...

chee kiong tagged on the cbox regarding his dirty shoes and how to clean them...
as a proud owner of a once shimering and glaring V10s, haha shall share with u guys how i restored the shine of my insane downturn slippers...

basically all u need is a toothbrush... rinse it with water and shake it dry... then just brush the cloth portions of ur shoes first... try not to wet it too much la... though i think for 5.10 shoes the material is waterproof... after that u can do the same to the rubber soles... i recommend that this procedure be used for shoes which u still wanna climb in for another 1 yr or so...

in the case of my V10s i just put it under a running tap and use a toothbrush to scrub the inner soles... though the dirt inside can never be totally eliminated, it will smell a lot better... the same goes for the rubber soles and the cloth material... this method would be more suitable for shoes which u dun really use that often... in my case my V10s has been retired for use on natural rock and maybe speed climbing...

when drying them i am sure all of u know that you should only air dry them instead of baking them under the hot sun... your shoes will feel so crunchy so much so that they might just crumble into pieces anytime

about the stink in the shoes, i read an article in climb asia stating that you should not put newspaper your shoes as it will obstruct ventilation and create a suitable environment for bacteria to thrive... think airing the shoes is the best idea... i aint a fan of sneaker balls too... my analogy of putting sneaker balls in climbing shoes is the same as fighting fart with lesser smelling fart... doesnt help at all...

some shoes will get black very quickly... 3 possibilities. a: your footwork sux, b: your feet sweat like hell or c: your footwork sux and your feet sweat like hell... so for people with ultra sweaty feet, suck thumb lor... clean ur shoes more often...

ok thats all... hope this helps!!!

Hong Kong climbing

A teaser for climbing in HK. Bouldering in Tsuen Wan, which is really beautiful. Its up a hill overlooking the entire skyline of HK. I thought we would be crazy to try out the hard problems because we had no crash pad. But we ended doing them anyway.

A SERIES OF FORTUNATE EVENTS.......



SHOT THRU THE HEART.

Anyone else? NF and LY? =)

Hello Eli, we have ours too!!! ... NF & LY, Char & Ed.... where's yours????

haha eli, we went back kl and took this photo.lol.
enjoy yr europe trip with alvin! =)

 

More Yangshuo??

You've heard of photo-whoring, that's what a lot of us climbers are. Team Yangshuo has brought us to a new level: blog-whoring! I think Alvin and Junwei got the same request as me, to blog for them and JS said more better. As mentioned by alv, and confirmed by JS, China can only view blogs, cannot post, not even his Wordpress blog.

Team Yangshuo + European climber who multipitched with JS on their 小绵羊

Nice scenery at Yangshuo...

With updates from China and Europe, how I wish I were overseas too, but here I am STUCK in the lab, with not much of a life. I wonder how those PhD students can take it....perhaps this is where the Permanent Head Damage thingy came about. You must have that in order to stand this kinda lifelessness. "Congrats! You survived this kind of no-life, you are certified to have permanent head damage. Here's your PhD." Just for fun - no ill intended. =)

Back to climbing: JS mentioned that the routes at Yangshuo are much harder to the equivalent grade at Krabi and I believe that to be true cos most of Krabi grades are pretty soft (as compared to Malaysia). Liu Li flashed a 7A in Yangshuo, Alvin and Weimin bouldering V7-V9 and Font 7b in Europe and my friend Yijin just finished Baby Gorillas in Krabi. I'm really itching for my Krabi trip in July. I wanna chase grades!!

Cross-Borders

TeamNUS climbers have been going everywhere sia... UK, France, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, China... I heard it's Greece next for some fellas. Truly taking the sport beyond borders.

E-N-V-Y. So where's my Team Yosemite??? Heh

Now, can you identify the NUS climbers in Team Yangshuo?

yangshuo and frankenjura update

I saw Jiasheng on MSN and was talking to him. Team Yangshuo humbly and respectfully begged me to help them blog about their accomplishments and so i shall..(i think cos china cannot use blogger WAHAHHA)

Jiasheng says: that he has climbed a 120m multipitch route with an european climber. The rest will do it soon. (alvin: Whoa!)
Liu li says: he has flashed 7A and will kick my ass in krabi (alvin:knnccb!)

They have been riding motorbikes to their climbing areas cos some are more than 10km away..without helmets! (alvin:tsk tsk) Jss also says that routes there are graded harder than krabi..

Back to Me and weimin, we were butt raped in frankenjura. The bolts are damn far apart, made our balls shrivel and drop. Worse is that the first bolt is sometimes super high up, it's like 5m high sometimes?

Then they go by uiaa grade from 1-10; doing a 6C equivalent(UIAA 7), we can take many tries and I even took a 3 bolt length lead fall!! that's really far considering the distance of bolts apart.(felt like screaming as i fell teehee') Cruxes of small pockets and crimps exist for the low grades of 6b even, it's disturbing.

We were out of our league cos many crags near our campsite only offered routes of 7C or harder.. :'( Enough excuses, me and weimin will be kicked by liu li in krabi. wheeee

It was a humbling experience climbing in frankenjura, but still a very fun trip exploring the countryside, long walks and treks, eating sausage, pork shoulder and all sorts of delicious German food. Wine is cheap and beer is cheaper than water at 25c for 0.5litres!!


PS: wilson is still strong despite hardly climbing! Lots of endurance and lots of determination just like b4..

cya soon!

nostalgia

is a good and bad thing.
it makes you happy thinking about happy times.
it makes you sad knowing that these become memories.
nevertheless. i miss climbing alot alot alot!!! esp. natural climbing.
and looking at pictures of all the climbing trips i had made me want to post them up! (and makes me want to start training again haha)
all i can say is cherish the school days, cos nothing beats being a student and climbing and living the carefree life!~
its been sooooo long since i posted here! so just some old pics of kl and tampin trip for entertainment purposes. hee.
alvin and i will try to update once im in munich! hopefully can find good places to climb there! =)

Climbers can be very easily contented. give us the simplest of xmas presents and we're as happy as little kids already.
(Christmas gift exchange in KL)


Climbers also like camera whoring. and posing in scenic locations.
(okay the background looks abit fake, but this is one of my favourite tampin pictures! makes us look like we're in hobbit land with all the fake looking boulders behind. aye but they're real ok)


Climbing girls like to pose with the flowers and the birds and the beeeeees.
but of course in front of huge boulders


and the one trait that all climbing boys possess.

is the ability to sleep anywhere.

okay im very free at home nowadays cos no more work for meeee! off to europe on monday!!!!
thats y im entertaining you all with silly pictures.

and to end off this silly post.
an even sillier picture that we were forced to pose for.


hahaha.
now nf and liying, yap and sm, jups and ruix,
u all must go back to camp 5 to take a picture like that too! =)

~eLi

Pumpfest 2007 Pics

Just thought I put up some collages from Pumpfest 2007. You can view the entire lot of them here. I will burn a dvd and pass it around, starting with Jups :)

These were some people i found around the climbing area ...



There were some things lying around and some people were trying to scale up some walls. Once they were up, they were jumping back down: if you waste this much effort to go up, why not continue over?!?!




And why the silly smiles on these people's faces?!