Bravery

I am so proud of my fellow climbers who sent the project I mentioned last week. Some photos of the send here. Nice one!!!

I luv this band and this song with a climax in the end.

Project anyone?

Could someone please come and send this beauty and let me know so that I can come and watch? Such a beautiful looking line with crux at the top and pretty bad landing though padable. Out of my skills and mental strength.

Keep smiling, keep shining

Two of my friends are very enthusiastic and talented boulder searchers and the good thing for all FA-hunters is that they are not so into doing them. Some pictures from their newest discovery. This place is around 15 min drive away from Uppsala city.

Inspired by the last picture today's song from the past:

Springaling

This spring is going faster than ever, so little time before summer is here. Tonight it will be another session with the beautiful en fråga om balans we'll see if the swelling received from my spa holiday in Edinburgh has gone already. It should be fine, I've been eating pineapple and celery like a mad woman. Tomorrow I will head  nooorth towards the snow and my family. Last summer we found some beautiful virgin blocks which will be tested on this trip.  The picture is not one of them, but from the same area. Scenery looks pretty nice but in reality there were about 2 million mosquitoes and that particular line was not a masterpiece.

Some mobilepics from a nice session we had on Sunday with the strong girls. First one is En fråga om balans and the second another beauty Candyman.

A perfect spring song by a Goddess!

Indiandans

We did an evening quickie in Lilla Bärsta. A very nice area with boulders in an old spruce forest, a wall and few boulders in more open area. A good place to go and do lots of easy problems and just cruise, and just a 10 min drive from my place. I had a crimpy wall problem in my mind that I tought about trying called Indiandans, it is a crimpy, balancy, reachy, pretty high, slopy in the end with a highstep. I chickened out the first top out to the side, but after cleaning the top holds I tried it again and did it and huuh the end made me giggle!! I had slightly different beta than in the video with some extra moves, a fiiine line I loved it!

Some softer tunes with beautiful vocals. I like when artists are honest or at least can act well, Adele looks like she is going to burst into tears while talking about the song. Oh well, we all know it ain't easy with heartbreaks. snif snif

Evening session II

Went to Källberga for another evening shortie. It has 6-7 big boulders in a very small area, about 200 m walk from the parking, lots of easy problems a perfect place for an outdoor gym session in a beautiful boreal-agrarian landscape. On the way back I bumped into some wild boars (video). 

Not forgetting the music part, here is a funfun song for today! Lalalalalalaa lalalala lalallalaa!!!

Evening session

Did a short evening session on Campusblocket again with a local fellow boulderinna. We worked a bit on Fingertopkänsla (stand) and I managed to do all the moves and linking it pretty far up. I'm excited to go back there, so nice to have projects 20 min drive away! Temperature went from +1 to -7 during the session and I was totally frozen in the end, but a little not so succesfull repetition attempt of campusproblem got me warm again:

Campusproblem from Pad Lady on Vimeo.

What happened: I had my left foot on world's biggest foot hold, but still it slipped off and I fell right on to my rib from over 2 meters in a ditch. Luckily I had placed an extra pad there by accident so no broken ribs just couple of good laughs.

Song of the day, a summer breeze bringing some good memories!

Summer memories II

This summer I got a visit from some Finns and we did some summer bouldering in the area of Västervik, Linköping and Uppsala. Maybe a bit too warm conditions, but I wasn't bothered, because I got to play with my good old buddies. A minor setback was when I accidentally stepped on a wasp nest, I don't know why but they immediately went for my butt. The result was 3 stings in the butt and 2 stings in the legs and traumatized forever. Fun trip, fantastic bouldering followed by a swim in a cool lake, dinner and drinks with friends in the nature. Life at its best. Photos by The Man with Pink Tights

 Fruberget, Västervik

Long John Kalle Silver, Focksta, Uppsala 

The Office, Björn-blocket, Västervik

Back to biz

As you might have seen my climbing has been pretty boring for the past weeks. Though, last week I started climbing again - jug fests at the gym. My finger feels pretty good, just need to have a long warm up and skip the tiny holds. I do not use tape, because I think you loose the sense and when you are climbing in controlled conditions indoors you can avoid the pain and not force the finger to painfull positions that you might do when having taped the finger. Preventing taping is of course good and I should've used it too before the injury to actually avoid it.

Climbing gyms aren’t really top class in Uppsala, not even middle class to be honest. But, you just have to be creative and find other ways to use them and benefit from them and the most important thing is we have blocks in the forrest. Anyways, one of my favorite forms of training indoors is doing the long traverse set. I usually do it during the lunch time, so I know the gym is empty. I listen to music and then I traverse for 45 minutes without rests including vertical, overhang and roof climbing, just my mula bandha with me. Sounds boring, I know. I don’t know if it improves my climbing either, but it does feel good. Just the movement, nothing else, simple and boring, but also one of the reasons why I got hooked in climbing in the first place.

Here is one of the playlists that I listen to while traversing, it is soft, melodic and pretty lovely :)   

http://open.spotify.com/user/padlady/playlist/2eAnzF7jcvbFQSG6Ugb3hK

Honeymoon continues

New area keeps on growing. Slopy problem without a name and super nice Elchock where spotmen are handy.

Photos MC

Love - autumn

Newly discovered big blocks in Uppsala.