Header photo: Michael Pang pulls out the big guns on Big Guy (5.11-). Thou shalt figure out thy hand size and become a disciple of it I always thought of my hands as small, so I assumed (incorrectly) that I was between a.75 and a #1 cam. I got absolutely spanked for three trips and thought I was horrible at crack climbing. (This wasn’t completely untrue.) I had avoided all “hand cracks,” or routes that are mostly #2 cams, thinking they would be too hard. Then I gave Incredible Handcrack a burn, and the jams were so solid I felt like I could hang a Mac truck off my body. I then told my friend, who I thought had the same size hands, to give it a try.
She’s much stronger than me, so I promised her she’d crush it. After 45 minutes of flailing and hanging on the rope, she lowered from the crux. The morals of the story: My hands are between #1 and #2, and don’t listen to anyone who has a different hand size than you.
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The 10 Crack Commandments of Sports Gambling. By Adam Caparell. Senior Editor, Complex Sports. In 1997, Biggie penned a classic about navigating the crack game. And while the world of sports. Indeed, behavioral studies show that several of the ten commandments have early. Been developed so that it is now possible to detect fields as low as ~10~9 gauss. And polyelectrolytes themselves turned out to be tough nuts to crack.