BD Crack gloves!

revans90 wrote: if MJ  climbed crack he would be all over these.

edit: anyone ever freeclimb in the bd fingerless wall glove? i wore the shit out of them free climbing on walls. i thought they worked well.

Yes. They work great until you  actually need to jam

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

Yes. They work great until you  actually need to jam

I’ve spent some time climbing in the OR splitter work gloves with fingers cut off and they jam pretty well

https://www.outdoorresearch.com/us/splitter-work-gloves-264364

C. limbnski wrote:

I’ve spent some time climbing in the OR splitter work gloves with fingers cut off and they jam pretty well

https://www.outdoorresearch.com/us/splitter-work-gloves-264364

Ok

My wife and I were both near the top end of the sizing shown on BD's site for XS and Medium. We both decided to send them back for SM and LG. I'm sure they would stretch some, but maybe not enough. I couldn't make a tight fist, and the velcro strap only had about 1.5 cm of overlap.

Matt Pierce wrote: Those look cool but ill always prefer tape.

Thank you, very cool

Are these aid?
They look like aid...

Climbing gloves? You'll never get those sexy leathery back's of your hands that say you've been through years of climbing. Tape is a compromise, sometimes you gotta do it, but taping well is a fine art and thus elevates itself above the simple plug and play glove. I would think that a company with  such a rich background in climbing would be embarrassed to make such a thing. Obviously they have no shame.

I can't believe that y'all climbers want to finish the day with the smooth, thin skinned hands of a surfer. Please.

Your gobies and callouses are badges of honor. wear them accordingly. Over the years your hands will become like the leather of a fine shoe. 

Then of course there's this little elephant in the corner called knowing how to climb. If you need those gloves you don't. You'll never know how to set a funky jam properly. And then there's that transition from hands to thin fingers where the gloves get into your space in the wrong way.

Yeah I know, some glove advocate is already posting up; well then good shoes are cheating too. Fine. I've seen great climbers do incredible things in good shoes. I've yet to see a great climber using gloves.

Caveat. I've used leather finger-less leather gloves aid climbing on El Cap. I thought it would be nice to still have knuckles at the top.

r/gatekeeping

Kristian Solem wrote: 
Yeah I know, some glove advocate is already posting up; well then good shoes are cheating too. Fine. I've seen great climbers do incredible things in good shoes. I've yet to see a great climber using gloves.

Does your anti also apply to using tape? 

Kristian Solem wrote: I've yet to see a great climber using gloves.
Your gobies and callouses are badges of honor.

https://youtu.be/vOlLYFPQlvk

For many of us in healthcare and other industries, open wounds or even abrasions on our hands are not okay

RE: Kristian Solem wrote:
" I've yet to see a great climber using gloves."
"Your gobies and callouses are badges of honor. wear them accordingly."

I've seen some pro climbers use crack gloves.  Those "badge of honor" gobies keep me from climbing as hard the next day.  I personally don't climb to fulfill my ego or to win a badge from someone else so I will keep using whatever I want.  You can keep your badges stuffed in a shoebox under the bed.

Sam Cieply wrote:

Oh man, I miss brad, such a great guy.  

I've tried Ocun, OR and BD gloves now.  I like them in that order as well.

dindolino32 wrote: RE: Kristian Solem wrote:
" I've yet to see a great climber using gloves."
"Your gobies and callouses are badges of honor. wear them accordingly."

I've seen some pro climbers use crack gloves.  Those "badge of honor" gobies keep me from climbing as hard the next day.  I personally don't climb to fulfill my ego or to win a badge from someone else so I will keep using whatever I want.  You can keep your badges stuffed in a shoebox under the bed.

There was a post on this awhile back.  I believe Mikey Schafer and Josh Wharton were also among the "soft" glove users turned up there.  For really technical thin hands tape still seems to rule but for almost anything else, the OCUNs have become my go-to for ease of on-off and general protection.  My skin has thinned as I've aged and the ROUGH granite in TX isn't so friendly to that.

mattm wrote:

There was a post on this awhile back.  I believe Mikey Schafer and Josh Wharton were also among the "soft" glove users turned up there.  For really technical thin hands tape still seems to rule but for almost anything else, the OCUNs have become my go-to for ease of on-off and general protection.  My skin has thinned as I've aged and the ROUGH granite in TX isn't so friendly to that.

Can confirm. Enchanted Rock granite is no fun without gloves. 

Chase Horn wrote: Are these aid?
They look like aid...

As I've stated I prefer tape - always, but these aren't aid. 

mattm wrote:

  My skin has thinned as I've aged and the ROUGH granite in TX isn't so friendly to that.

Yep I’ll third that notion. As the guy said above, “gobies” and battle scar badges of honor overnight on the hand cracks. I’ve forgotten tape once or twice and proceeded to climb without it and paid the price. I guess my technique is subpar. A few laps at the carnivore boulders without tape and I have permanently lost the ability to grow hair on the backs of my hands.  

You all crack me up. You're so very easily trolled. Get a sense of humor, will ya'? 

Saying the opposite of what you think isn’t trolling. And there’s no actual sense of humor.  Let me give you an example using the well known “crack” joke for climbing.

1. “I don’t like crack climbing.....actually I do! Bwa ha ha you all got TROLLED! This is so funny but everyone else needs to get a sense of humor.”
2. “My mom said stay away from crack, I didn’t quite understand what she meant so I face climb while on cocaine.

Your example is #1..... and number 2 lets people join in a narrative and the find that the original assumption of the content changes somehow. That is an example of humor albeit used to death.