Climb X Crack Gloves

Kai Larson wrote: I would buy crack gloves from her.

Sad to know ClimbX has to resort to using the tits as their primary selling point, as opposed to, I dont know, the product's performance like all other manufacturers. Shit, even Gearforrocks doesent use the tits to sell their crap. It's sad when your company is not even as good as Gearforrocks.

20 kN wrote: Sad to know ClimbX has to resort to using the tits as their primary selling point, as opposed to, I dont know, the product's performance like all other manufacturers. Shit, even Gearforrocks doesent use the tits to sell their crap. It's sad when your company is not even as good as Gearforrocks.

have u personally used climb x gear?

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Colonel Mustard wrote: Do you know the sizing on these? What works on guy hands, something like #2, #3 Camalot hand jams? I'm interested, but it's a bit to lay out not knowing what will work.

they roughly correspond to the OR/major brands glove sizing ... folks who normally wear medium tend to fit medium ocuns ...etc ...

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The extra large just barely fit, my palms are about 4.75" wide.

Thanks for the sizing info. I'm right at the upper range of large, wondering if I should do XL just in case... Once you Blicard folks get them in stock in the larger size, do you take returns?

Also, your belay glasses are right-priced, might have to pick up a pair of them too!

The Ocun ones are great; my wife loves them. The "Hand Jammies" brand uses much thicker/stiffer rubber, and they are not nearly as versatile as a result. I was using Ocun ones at the gym for a while--it wasn't worth taping up to get on a gym TR crack. I gave up on them quickly because they made even off-fingers cracks way too easy--the rubber on the knuckles provided considerable friction against the edge of the crack. Just know when you are using them that you are on a much easier climb than the same person who is using tape or flesh. Which is fine...

Harder climbs easier? Hell yes!

Colonel Mustard wrote:Thanks for the sizing info. I'm right at the upper range of large, wondering if I should do XL just in case... Once you Blicard folks get them in stock in the larger size, do you take returns? Also, your belay glasses are right-priced, might have to pick up a pair of them too!

i just use the gloves ... you can ask Dan, the owner, at bliccard about the return policy and more questions on the sizing

i bought 3 pairs from him directly the moment he told me he had em in stock ... it may or may not become a regularly stocked item

if you see em snatch em up as who knows when ocun will get a north american distributer

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Ocun gloves: Got 'em, lovin' 'em. If you're already gonna aid climb with tape, might as well get these. My one complaint would be for a recess to insert the velcro strap ends on the gloves, so they don't dangle and take further abuse.

I love the lack of the residue that I got on my hands from tape. I also like that they slip on and off with relatively no effort or care to preserve, unlike tape gloves did. It also makes my crack laps on the gym auto belay less of a buy in.

It's funny, I think my technique at long last allows me to climb without gloves even on the more challenging sizes, but you never know when that skin is going to open up and leave you with weeks long healing time. Oozing hand sores really aren't the thing in my health care profession either.

I heartily endorse these for the aid climbers and hand models in all of us.

MorganH wrote:The extra large just barely fit, my palms are about 4.75" wide.

Same here,,I think since just about all the dam yard, garden, work, climbing, whatever,,kind of gloves I try to buy these days are all made overseas in some Asian nation,,,their idea of a size 'Large' is something way different from what our hands are. XL gloves seem to mean long fingers,,not wider palms. I don't buy a glove anymore based on the size label,,I gotta try it on my hand. Like buying unknown climbing shoes online,,,you always end up with the wrong size the first 2 tries.