Boulder Brighton Climbing

We're back after 4 years away from the rock climbing and bouldering game!

Steve started a new relationship and I have been busy with downhill and BASE jumping and Crypto and my business and my dog, you get it, life just took over...

We decided its time to get back on it! So for the last month we have been going twice a week to Boulder Brighton.

Here we are able to do bouldering, slacklining and use their training area that has a variety of finger boards, campus boards, moon walls and other evil apparatus to train for strength building.

I was able to get to the top of the 4 wooden capsule-looking things and come back down again, but the balls, we both managed the 3rd ones up, so we have a way to go haha

More evil

When we started again last month we went straight in on 5's, so 5A's, 5B's and the odd 5C.

Now we are comfortably attacking 5B's and 5C's, with the odd 6A, so 6's are now on the menu for us!

We both tried a 6B+ today and completely burned ourselves out, so we have agreed that we'll go back to our 5B's and 5C's but agreed we have to do at least one 6A a day (to keep the doctor away) :-)

This is Steve getting his 6A for the day, and for the first time too, so full stoke!

The holds are 'Jugs' so are nice, deep and easy to hold on to, but what makes this route hard for me is its long are and you have to scale an over hang. I struggle on this route as I am only 5ft 7 and some of the holds are far apart so I find myself at full stretch.

So it was my turn for a 6A, and after around 7 or 8 attempts I finally got it.

I'm probably the most inflexible bastard I know, and to get my right foot on to the hold, I had to lift it up there with my right hand. I was PUMPED after this climb, and super happy, but I'm not looking forward to doing it again.

As always we warmed down with some slacklining

We were hurting by the end of the morning.

Steve was feeling it in his fingers, and I was feeling it in my toes haha #wetwetwet

Pumped to be bouldering again, can't wait to head to Craggy Island in Guildford for some Lead Climbing next.

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