Rubber Crack Gloves
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Gloves are for pussies! |
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Locker wrote:Gloves are for pussies!So are climbing shoes! |
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You can purchase Ocun Crack Gloves from ---->
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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.... |
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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. |
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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". |
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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. :) |
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i used hand jammies for the first time this spring. they shine on alpine routes with wet cracks. |
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sarah hart using ocun crack gloves ... at 19 seconds in the vid josh wharton using ocun crack gloves i suspect these folks know how to jam just as well, or more likely better than most MPers ;) |
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Bearbreeder, |
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Boxing gloves, bowling shoes, only women and noobs use #2 camalots? |
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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... |
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Theres a crack or two here where most of us mortals wont fall asleep on which take numbah tooooos |
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bearbreeder wrote:Perhaps you recommend we start soloing em just like u =PI will solo the occasional 5.9. It is sometimes easier than walking around to get to the good route. |
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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 . |
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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. |
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reboot wrote: In which case, ocun, hand jammie or whatever would be the wrong type of rubber.THATS SOME FUNNY SH#T. HAHAAA! |
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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… |
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Fred put up more routes than everyone else in the world combined.... and I doubt there was ever a crack glove worn.... |
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