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Ethics police opinion on this one:



http://www.mtntools.com/cat/rclimb/chal ... ammies.htm

HAND JAMMIES allow you to jam with security and comfort in both slippery or coarse & painful skin shredding cracks! JAMMIES feature wide elastic finger loops, extra padding across the knuckles (gotta love that), and most importantly a thin layer of sticky climbing rubber on the entire back of your hand - which will instantly improve your crack climbing. A split leather cuff with carabiner clip-in hole & hook-n-loop wrist straps lock you in... but easily allows removal for belaying chores or the next face pitch. Make HAND JAMMIES part of your rack - for increased performance, comfort and greater protection.

My dad loves them, he swears by them. He says that they are super secure and give him the added protection for the backs of his hands. The down side though is that you cant jam in smaller cracks

I don't even really like tape all that much, so these would not be very cool for me.

I'm not the ethics police but I play one at my job.

AE I'll ask you this: What do you think about sticky rubber shoes?

<edit>I won't use them b/c I want scars on the backs of my hands.</edit>

Do they come in pink?

good point lj! but really, we have to draw the line somewhere!!!

I have a pair, and use them occasionally on really sharp rock, or on day 4 of a trad trip, they have allowed me to climb days when otherwise I couldn't have climbed at all

meetVA wrote:but really, we have to draw the line somewhere!!!

no!! draw no lines!! say no to tick marks! LEAVE NO TRACE!!

how will anyone find their way up a route if we get rid of the tick marks?
i like it when a route that should only have 30 moves on it has 300 b/c of tick marks!
ya-hoo!

I'd have to try them before I made a comment as to how they perform versus tape. When cracks are really thin, though, like #.75 to #1 Camalot size, I'd just as soon not wear tape so that I can fit more of my hand in. Unless the crack is ridiculously sharp or something.

I think this line is kind of silly, though:

a thin layer of sticky climbing rubber on the entire back of your hand - which will instantly improve your crack climbing.

It reminds me of some post SCIN made awhile back about how he tries to avoid tape on most cracks so that he doesn't become sloppy with his hand jamming. In this case, the sticky rubber may instantly improve your performace, but your jamming technique might go to shit because you become more reliant on the friction rather than how you are flexing and torquing your hand.