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General Climbing Discussion

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crack climbs 7-Aug-2006 At 5:11:46 PM B.A. Baracus
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Bonnie, plenty of great advice from all. Not a master myself, but crack climbing is one of my favorite climbing subdisciplines. Here are some things that helped me:

- crack gloves (After using these for a while you may not even need them except on the harshest granite).
- growing accustomed to pain (for real).
- developing efficient jams (Solid feet, solid hands. The kind of jams you can rest and place gear on).
- Starting with the easiest jam size, perfect hands (this jam only requires a slight flex of the thumb to engage solidly). If your on top-rope or seconding, try to move rhythmically. Try for laps on a crack you have mastered.
- Find some crazy bastard crack fiend to drag you up cracks you wouldn't lead.

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