Are crack gloves cheating?

I NEVER use crack gloves.... Totally cheating.

I ALWAYS use crack gloves... Totally NOT cheating.

If you use condoms, you’re cheating.  Change my mind.  

Cosmiccragsman AKA Dwain wrote: If you use your hand the right way when jamming you don't need tape or gloves.

If you use your mind the right way, you do not even require hands to jam, grasshopper.

Although it prevents wear and tear on one's hands, I feel I get less friction with the rock when I wear crack gloves than compared with bare skin.  I rarely ever tape.  So in my opinion, wearing crack gloves probably handicaps the climber's ability to climb.   When I crack climb, a little less than half the time, I wear my gloves.

Hell yeah, real men and women jam skin to rock until their hands are a bloody mess.  Training is also cheating.  And being young and lightweight, super cheaty.

Colonel Mustard wrote:

If you use your mind the right way, you do not even require hands to jam, grasshopper.

LOL
Yeah, Levitation.
Or climbing cracks at Red Rock where the cracks are just for pro and you use the face for holds.

Enough people have chimed in to say gloves reduce their ability to jam that I have been switched from "crack gloves are cheating" to "NOT wearing crack gloves is cheating".  End of discussion.