Rubber Crack Gloves

I borrowed a friends rubber crack gloves to climb gym crack. Way better than taping up indoors

Rob Davis wrote:I borrowed a friends rubber crack gloves to climb gym crack. Way better than taping up indoors

Derek Jf wrote: LOL.

Drop the egos please, if crack gloves are not for you than don't use em, they are just one of hundreds of tools. If they take away from your funding for nipple rings, bennies and pot than you have a choice....

I have a pair of crack gloves for my gyms crack climbs.. 1) there stupd coarse because no one in my gyme wants to learn to climb splitters apparently so they have not warn down yet.. and 2) using all that tape to do two pitches in the gym twice a week was getting to be annoying..

they have become popular on long granite alpine routes like you see in Patagonia and the Ruth Gorge. I see their benefit in those situations, less waste, easily reusable, ability to take on and off quickly, last longer etc...

using them at a crag or in the gym...

I only got cuts on my hands when i first started and had bad form, and would frantically try to jam my hand wherever it would fit.

Kai Larson wrote: Another picture of a "pussy" wearing crack gloves:

Really?! He's using them to belay in the cold on the Diamond. Absolutely NOT wearing crack gloves.

I've been using my OR hand jammies for a year so far. They're still in great condition. They don't increase your ability to crack climb. Your ability to crack climb is based on your strength and technique. I use them because they are fast to put on and take off and don't smell like shit, like your used up tape gloves. I can wash them if necessary. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BakJqvTnzBb/?taken-by=bradgobright

Ocun crack gloves on the nose speed record.  It strikes me that many of you haters could also take a lesson from Mr Gobright and learn some humbleness.  

This thread is a prime example of why MP needs to discuss gender issues. So much ridiculous sexism. 

Creed A wrote:

This thread is a prime example of why MP needs to discuss gender issues. So much ridiculous sexism. 

I started counting the number of times that it happened, but lost track after the first page.

This thread delivers

Ocun crack gloves 

http://rockandresole.com/climbing-gear/hands/ocun-crack-gloves/

Brandon Quinn wrote:

Really?! He's using them to belay in the cold on the Diamond. Absolutely NOT wearing crack gloves.

No you’re incorrect here.  A: rope is stacked on the other climber’s harness so he probably isn’t going to belay. B: crack gloves wouldn’t be very insulating, durable, or practical for belaying so I’m certain he is using them for climbing 

Can't they make a reusable shoe  that has the same friction coefficiency as skin so it's not aid?

see how dumb it sounds?

Ha! Love the spider mitts thing! On the subject of usable gloves...I have used both the Ocun and the Outdoor Research versions. Both worked well for me, but the Velcro closure on the OR gloves started tearing apart quickly and I had to get them resown in that area. I prefer the Ocuns--which fit tight, by the way, but I like them tight. Another point for older folks: I have noticed that my skin at near 60 years old is not the same as my skin when I was young. It now tends to cut and break through much more easily when jamming or even due to a chance backhand bump on a protrusion. So, I will wear my gloves not only for cracks but very often also on other climbs with no cracks just to protect my lovely hands. Yep, call me weak.

I like the Ocun gloves.  They do make your jams/fists a bit bigger, which can be useful.  Also, if you find yourself on a pitch with a ton of palm-down moves (like a slab, OW or chimney), you can flip them onto your palm to add friction.  

Just FYI tho, pay attention to the eyelet where the wrist strap doubles back.  When it starts to wear, it's time to replace them.  I broke one that way and took a surprise whip. The replacements I purchased seem a bit more reinforced in that area, so maybe only a problem on the old version.  

Are they aid? *shrug* 

Jun Kim wrote:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BakJqvTnzBb/?taken-by=bradgobright

Ocun crack gloves on the nose speed record.  It strikes me that many of you haters could also take a lesson from Mr Gobright and learn some humbleness.  

Yes, but he is aid climbing in that photo. Completely different conversation.

I put a couple wraps of tape over the knuckles on my ocuns to make them fit a little tighter to my hands, I love them now.  I also save a lot on tape.

Brandon Quinn wrote:

Yes, but he is aid climbing in that photo. Completely different conversation.

He's on the last pitch bolt ladder.  You're right, but it wouldn't make sense to put them on for a bolt ladder.  He probably had them on for the 5.10ish hands crack that leads up to the bolt ladder.  See the other picture in that series for what the crack on the last pitch looks like, although it looks like a layback from that perspective.  FWIW, he probably had them on for the whole thing; not a lot of opportunity to switch gloves on a speed record attempt, I bet.