Crack School #5 Placing Cams and Nuts

Placing a cam? Slotting a nut? Slinging a tree?
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caribe
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Crack School #5 Placing Cams and Nuts

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http://www.dpmclimbing.com/climbing-vid ... -placement
The last 30 sec in the advice about big cams looks sketch. What if that sucker walks? Any opinions?
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A sling should eliminate walking. Besides, it's the UK. Their toilets flush backwards and their cams don't walk.
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ahab, your hairless lip rocks my world (2000 years hence)
training is for people who care, i have a job.
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My big cams never walk because I never let go of them. I just put a #5 in each fist and hand-over-hand up the crack.
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kato wrote:My big cams never walk because I never let go of them. I just put a #5 in each fist and hand-over-hand up the crack.
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No, no, you have it all wrong. If your really going to play Edward Cam Hands, you've got tot duck tape em' to your hands. This is really the only way to keep wide gear from walking, because thats just what they'll do, one day those cams are gonna walk right out on you. The real challenge of Edward Cam hands is clipping the chains at the top!
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megmay wrote:...The real challenge of Edward Cam hands is clipping the chains at the top!
Oh meggie, I think you just gave yourself away... Real trad climbers top out!
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Yeah, trad climbing is for the birds ... or pussies ... or bird-pussies. I only trad climb when I wake up with two 5's taped to my hands.
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Great job class, now lets use it all in a sentence: Last Friday, when Johny got higher than a bird pussy his friends decided to play a joke, they broke out the big gear and make him play Edward Cam Hands until he came down.
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