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psa for finger crack climbing

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The Butt-Shot Whisperer · · Colorful Colorado · Joined Jun 2009 · Points: 0

old trick to climb hard finger cracks and not bleed

wear golf gloves

buy a right  and a left

and size them down to be tight

if ur a dirtbag go to a golf course and ask for the gloves from the lost n found 

Max Tepfer · · Bend, OR · Joined Oct 2007 · Points: 3,633

I’d be curious to hear which hard finger cracks you’ve climbed in golf gloves. 

Rew Exo · · Mammoth Lakes / Bishop · Joined Apr 2017 · Points: 199

I can't imagine that working as well as properly taped fingers.

Cosmic Hotdog · · California · Joined Sep 2019 · Points: 432

Tape and good technique also works   

Matt N · · CA · Joined Oct 2010 · Points: 476

And welders gloves for downsizing OW to fist.

Colonel Mustard · · Sacramento, CA · Joined Sep 2005 · Points: 1,257

But what size club should I use?

Big B · · Reno, NV · Joined Mar 2015 · Points: 1
Colonel Mustardwrote:

But what size club should I use?

7 iron of course

Shaniac · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2016 · Points: 24
Matt Nwrote:

And welders gloves for downsizing OW to fist.

I was thinking hockey goalie gloves could get-er-done too.

Cosmic Hotdog · · California · Joined Sep 2019 · Points: 432
Shaniacwrote:

I was thinking hockey goalie gloves could get-er-done too.

Hulk hands, perhaps?

Ricky Harline · · Angel's Camp, CA · Joined Nov 2016 · Points: 147
Shaniacwrote:

I was thinking hockey goalie gloves could get-er-done too.

A buddy of mine climbed a fist crack as a hand crack in motorcycle gloves with large plastic protrusions on the back side of knuckles. It was both really funny and surprisingly effective. 

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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