David Lama beats up rocks?

Post by **itmeansgod** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:14 pm

I'm pretty sure no one else on here is a climbing magazine reading gumby like myself, but the latest issues of both Climbing and Rock and Ice have short features on David Lama, a fifteen year old kid who just climbed like a million 5.14s within seconds, all while making love to 3 international supermodels. What I'm confused about is his hand position in the pictures (Climbing p. 24 and the cover of R&I). In both of these pictures, one of his hands is just in a fist, right up to the rock. I'm guessing this is either some super secret grip technique that they teach you in mutant climber school, or he's punching the rock until it lets him send. Thoughts?

Post by **SCIN** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:47 pm

He has really short fingers which allows him to apply more torque due to a shorter fulcrum. The dude is amazing though. He's a Nepalese dude. In the video Karma they mention that the people from Nepal are the strongest humans on earth. I think David Lama is proving this.

Post by **itmeansgod** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:52 pm

You might be right, I've noticed the short finger = strong thing before (a la Jeremiah's midget thumbs) but, at least in the Climbing magazine picture, it totally doesn't look like he's using his fingertips on the rock at all, it just looks like he's punching it. Even on the Rock and Ice cover, it seems like he'd have to either have no fingertips at all or be in a deep jug.

Post by **SCIN** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:26 pm

I think he's punching the rock. If you look close you can see his knuckles are really bloody in all of the pictures. He punches holes in the rock which creates jugs.

Post by **itmeansgod** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:33 pm

I'm pretty sure you're right. What a fucking badass. Maybe I should trade in my hangboard for a bag.

Post by **SCIN** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:45 pm

That's a good idea. He's getting a bunch of shit though because he's fucking up all of these classic 5.14 lines by punching holes in them. Personally I stand behind him because he's still naturally cranking.

Post by **RRO** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:20 pm

the future is here. que eye of the tiger

Post by **SikMonkey** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:22 pm

In the video Karma they mention that the people from Nepal are the strongest humans on earth

It's from all the sherpa work and yak wrestling.

Mj

Post by **DJMike** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:23 pm

So I tried punching the rock as you guys suggested. In the epic battle between man and stone...the stone won.

Post by **itmeansgod** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:30 pm

RRO wrote:the future is here. que eye of the tiger

I'm pretty sure that this is the future of climbing:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... 624945.800