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Recently we\u2019ve been psyched. Psyched to climb harder. Our frequent visits to Hueco have exposed us to people from all over the world climbing hard! April and I have been wondering what we could do, how we can train so we can get strong like the many climbers sending the classics all around us. \u201cIt\u2019s time to up the ante,\u201d as April put it. So, over the last few weeks we increased our intensity of training. We started pushing our limits more than ever. Check out Ben Moon\u2019s advice www.moonclimbing.com for some ideas that we think really work!<\/p>\n
While training or climbing over the past few weeks we both kept asking each other, \u201cHey, do I look stronger now? Am I climbing harder after all this training?\u201d For sure, yeah, we noticed the improvement in our abilities but we\u2019ve only been linking and doing individual moves on problems at or above our limits. For example, I recently tried \u201cRight Martini V12\u201d and for a first time ever, did all the moves. I can\u2019t tell how far off I am from a send but I can definitely tell that I\u2019m stronger than ever and progressing every week.<\/p>\n
Last weekend I managed to send \u201cDirty Martini on the Rocks V12\u201d but that climb kinda sucks and it is probably more like V9. April repeated \u201cBaby Martini V6\u201d while Iaughing and then nearly sent the awesome \u201cBig Iron on His Hip V7.\u201d After a couple other pretty cool accomplishments that weekend we still were not satisfied and we craved harder sends.
\nWell, today, I think we got what we wanted.<\/p>\n
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Paul:\u2028Sent \u201cPredator V10\u201d 1st go (worked out the full sequence last weekend) and \u201c V6\u201d (I could never figure out how to do this one previously). Repeated \u201cDaily Dick Dose V7\u201d (warmed up the fingers for Predator), fell off \u201cDouble Vision V7\u201d several times and tweaked something! And repeated \u201cBig Iron on His Hip V7\u201d to test out the tweak. Yep, definitely tweaked something in the left hand. No more climbing today.<\/p>\n
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April: \u2028Cranked out her best climbing day….E V E R. Decided to try out \u201cDaily Dick Dose\u201d just cause we were there for me to warm up, and then went ahead and promptly SENT the damn thing. A Hueco classic and her first V7! We then moved on to the Martini Roof and she laced up for \u201cBig Iron on His Hip V7\u201d, a much better climb in my opinion that is harder and much longer, and the climb which she had been projecting the last few weekends. She fell three times at the last move, fingers an inch away from the finish hold. Then rested. Then sent. April\u2019s second V7.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned…the sending train is just gettin\u2019 started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
April sending Daily Dick Dose V7, Hueco Tanks Recently we\u2019ve been psyched. Psyched to climb harder. Our frequent visits to Hueco have exposed us to people from all over the world climbing hard! April and I have been wondering what we could do, how we can train so we can get strong like the many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}