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Rubber Crack Gloves

Locker · · Yucca Valley, CA · Joined Oct 2002 · Points: 2,349

Gloves are for pussies!

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Ed Wright · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2006 · Points: 285
Locker wrote:Gloves are for pussies!
So are climbing shoes!
Bliss · · Vancouver, British Columbia · Joined Aug 2013 · Points: 15

You can purchase Ocun Crack Gloves from ---->

blicard.com/collections/cra…

$37.95 USD

  • full disclosure I'm the co-owner of Blicard.com. Many of you seem to be looking for these. Hope this helps.
therockbiter · · San Jose · Joined Jun 2014 · Points: 145

I just bought a pair for me and my wife. Eventually you get to the age when you JDGAF what others think. Im no pro or ever will be. On the subject of cheating....

Im sure that someone said that about

cars VS horse and buggy

stone tablets VS papyrus

flip phones VS smart phones

computers VS the library

EB's.... Crashpads... harnesses with leg loops... Bolted Routes... Rap bolting

pre-placed draws and gear EG: El cap, anything 5.13 and harder. ect......

I guarantee in another 7 years these gloves will be standard just like all the above has become.
Early adopters be proud... We have always endured criticism for being one step ahead. :)

Jan Tarculas · · Riverside, Ca · Joined Mar 2010 · Points: 917
Locker wrote:Gloves are for pussies!
Not if you work with body fluids, infected liquids, clean poop from a bed ridden person, constantly give head to toe bed baths and touch various other disgusting things with your hands that can easily infect skin tears and flappers.

It also stings like a bitch constantly using alcohol sanitizer with all the tears I have.
highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion · · Colorado · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 35
therockbiter wrote:... I guarantee in another 7 years these gloves will be standard just like all the above has become. Early adopters be proud... We have always endured criticism for being one step ahead. :)
There has been a version of these out and readily available since at least 1995. They haven't become standard yet and they won't.

The reality of these gloves is that they handicap your climbing. If you can do it with a hand jammie, it would have been easier with tape or even barehanded if you know how to jam. There are a handful of gnarly cracks that they would be nice on, hence the single pitch of multipitch route comments. They are not required though.

If a reusable, sensitive, durable, glove that doesn't ruin tight hands comes out, it would become standard soon enough. Right now that product grows on your hands and gets worse after each "harvest".
therockbiter · · San Jose · Joined Jun 2014 · Points: 145

I see your point and only time will tell weather they will catch on. Most humans are submissive to community pressure then again maybe they will suck. Im not much of a crack climber. Living in San Jose, CA i boulder most the time and face climb. I just want protection without having to make tape gloves. I just bought them and am going to try them out in Lake Tahoe on Thursday. Ive done several hands to wide cracks in Yosemite with tape gloves and they worked fine just want to try something new. Note: they are not any thicker than the tape gloves i have used used in the past. Ill see whats up an post an objective report. :)

ze dirtbag · · Tahoe · Joined Jun 2012 · Points: 50

i used hand jammies for the first time this spring. they shine on alpine routes with wet cracks.

i can see both sides of the argument, yeah they're sticky and give an advantage. i don't use them for cragging or on hard(for me) cracks. they're bulky for thin hands and i like to think my jams are pretty damn solid. however, wet/icy granite can be a bitch. i'd rather climb fast and have someone talk shit than lose my weather window and get wet/cold/turn into a lightning rod.

end of the day, they're gear. use them when you need to. healthy hands are a big deal on multiple day routes.

bearbreeder · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2009 · Points: 3,065

sarah hart using ocun crack gloves ... at 19 seconds in the vid

youtube.com/watch?v=lwAjReW…

kate rutherford using ocun crack gloves



josh wharton using ocun crack gloves



i suspect these folks know how to jam just as well, or more likely better than most MPers

;)
highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion · · Colorado · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 35

Bearbreeder,

You are turning this into another Mythos thread.

Just because some climber you don't know but can google climbs stuff that is physically easier to them than wiping does not prove the case that these conveinience, not performance, aids do anything at all. (I have pride in my run on sentences).

I ran into Kate Rutherford skinny dipping in Greenland. She didn't have anything on her hands at the moment.

I think of all the cracks between mid 12 and 13 I've personally climbed, and only one did I use tape. Handjammies would have probably worked just as well on that beast too FWIW. I feel like you're forgetting that 90% of the pos(t)ers here are interested in how they would work on the perfect hands 5.9. They'd work as well there as bowling shoes, boxing gloves, or roller skates. Seriously, is there anything you can do to actually handicap yourself on a perfect hand crack? I doubt it.

I suspect if it weren't for little women and n00bs, BD wouldn't be able to sell #2 cams.

bearbreeder · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2009 · Points: 3,065

Boxing gloves, bowling shoes, only women and noobs use #2 camalots?

Oh my !!! What an elitist attitude there =P

Im mot sure how folks, including some pretty good ones, using hand jammies gets you so riled up

Whether folks use em or not .... Or wear mythos for that matter ... Is their choice

Not quite sure how it affects your climbing

Theres a reason why they wear em and why they sell ... And why folks will pay a good price for the ocun ones

;)

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion · · Colorado · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 35
bearbreeder wrote:Boxing gloves, bowling shoes, only women and noobs use #2 camalots? Oh my !!!
Correct. If you can't fall asleep on #2 camalot sized crack, you are doing it wrong.

BTW, I'm not riled up. I said in my initial post on this subject that if there was a good glove out there (I don't believe the Ocun is) that it would be standard equipment quickly. That includes my rack. Why wouldn't it?

As long as I bring my shoes and rope and chalk and tape and cams and nuts and draws and sometimes drill, I don't have a problem adding jammies to the list. So far though, I see little reason to.

As for my personal vendetta against mythos (my words, and true), I don't know why I hate them so much. Sure they suck but lots of things suck. Maybe it was that priest wearing mythos I encountered as an altar boy...
bearbreeder · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2009 · Points: 3,065

Theres a crack or two here where most of us mortals wont fall asleep on which take numbah tooooos

Perhaps you recommend we start soloing em just like u =P

As to ocuns .... Its not like anyone here is sponsored by ocun

Yet quite a few MPers have stated thei preference for em

Just cause u dun like em doesnt mean they ....

;)

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion · · Colorado · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 35
bearbreeder wrote:Perhaps you recommend we start soloing em just like u =P
I will solo the occasional 5.9. It is sometimes easier than walking around to get to the good route.
iceman777 · · Colorado Springs · Joined Oct 2007 · Points: 60

Well I've used both types of the gloves and can honestly say for me there only great for larger cracks tight fists and up , if you are faced with anything from very thin hands to tips then they just get in the way .Tape or nothing is better in that case .

What I really find funny is all the dumb asses here who think the world revolves around there opinion
98%of them wouldn't know a real climber if one fucked em in the ass , As for the other 2%. 1% is sponsored and will say what ever there employer wishes .then there's the last 1% there too old and sodded to change, deal w/it .

I climb what I want the way I want , not to prove anything to anyone but myself , I've climbed every discipline all over the world , spent three years as a paratrooper , worked as an underground miner for 30 years , hold every rating a fixed wing pilot can to include some choice type ratings in some sexy jets and guess what ? at the end of the day it all don't mean shit !

Climb the way you enjoy ! And tell the nay Sayers to eat shit !

reboot · · . · Joined Jul 2006 · Points: 125
nicelegs wrote:I ran into Kate Rutherford skinny dipping in Greenland. She didn't have anything on her hands at the moment.
In which case, ocun, hand jammie or whatever would be the wrong type of rubber.
therockbiter · · San Jose · Joined Jun 2014 · Points: 145
reboot wrote: In which case, ocun, hand jammie or whatever would be the wrong type of rubber.
THATS SOME FUNNY SH#T. HAHAAA!
Bliss · · Vancouver, British Columbia · Joined Aug 2013 · Points: 15
coop wrote:Anybody know what gloves he is wearing?
I actually know the guy in this pic personally. He's a good friend and can confirm these are Ocun Crack Gloves :)

Where did you get this photo? That's hilarious.

Anyway they are available here blicard.com/collections/sho…
Tronald Dump · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2013 · Points: 10

Fred put up more routes than everyone else in the world combined.... and I doubt there was ever a crack glove worn....

Kai Larson · · Sandy, UT · Joined Jan 2006 · Points: 436

Another picture of a "pussy" wearing crack gloves:

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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