@@troytimmons Your footwork and movement. Moving quickly off of not so great feet when there are better options. The go pro does make it look like your gear is more spaced out than it is. You have more potential that 99% of ice climbers on youtube and your content is great. That FA footage is astounding. I would just work on your movement. Both sticks with tools and feet. Couple times your footwork simply does not look like a wi5 leader. Lack of deliberate precise feet. Some sticks with your tools are looking a little desperate too. You fitness is great but still breathing pretty heavily. I would want someone to be honest. Not trying to be a d. Good thing is you are close to being like an amazing, amazing ice climber.
@@user-ky4jp8jf2pi appreciate the honesty. If I waited to climb this thing until i could climb it perfectly i wouldn't have been able to climb it this season. It rarely forms like this and it's my first time truly limit climbing on lead for ice. The pump management in the section around the first screw was abysmal, so i agree with that but i didn't want to edit it out (maybe i should have) like cmon i chose a spot where i couldn't even put in the screw. This was the 4th day in a row where i led my new hardest climb (4- to 4 to 4+ to 5), but i was feeling psyched and went for it without ever feeling like i was gonna come off. The gopro doesn't really do justice to how the sticks feel in the ice especially on the hooked out holds. despite the chando it felt really solid. The scariest thing that day was seeing some of the old screw holes really low on the pillar. I like to climb fast which is a shock for most people on ice, if it feels good for bodyweight i move on the sticks, also i've been trying to stop overdriving my tools and front points cause most of the time is entirely unnecessary and is a huge energy drain.
Great stuff Troy !
Thanks man!
Top marks for toughing it out but that was as super sketchy lead. Quite a few of those placements were, um, marginal at best. Be safe.
well that's the easiest way to get mileage on 6s (climbing a 5 super inefficiently). thanks for the kind words
Nice one, but still waiting for snow fall in Scotland !
Way above your paygrade. Sketchy lead 😮
what's my paygrade? and what made this sketchy?
@@troytimmons Your footwork and movement. Moving quickly off of not so great feet when there are better options. The go pro does make it look like your gear is more spaced out than it is. You have more potential that 99% of ice climbers on youtube and your content is great. That FA footage is astounding. I would just work on your movement. Both sticks with tools and feet. Couple times your footwork simply does not look like a wi5 leader. Lack of deliberate precise feet. Some sticks with your tools are looking a little desperate too. You fitness is great but still breathing pretty heavily. I would want someone to be honest. Not trying to be a d. Good thing is you are close to being like an amazing, amazing ice climber.
@@user-ky4jp8jf2pi appreciate the honesty. If I waited to climb this thing until i could climb it perfectly i wouldn't have been able to climb it this season. It rarely forms like this and it's my first time truly limit climbing on lead for ice. The pump management in the section around the first screw was abysmal, so i agree with that but i didn't want to edit it out (maybe i should have) like cmon i chose a spot where i couldn't even put in the screw. This was the 4th day in a row where i led my new hardest climb (4- to 4 to 4+ to 5), but i was feeling psyched and went for it without ever feeling like i was gonna come off. The gopro doesn't really do justice to how the sticks feel in the ice especially on the hooked out holds. despite the chando it felt really solid. The scariest thing that day was seeing some of the old screw holes really low on the pillar. I like to climb fast which is a shock for most people on ice, if it feels good for bodyweight i move on the sticks, also i've been trying to stop overdriving my tools and front points cause most of the time is entirely unnecessary and is a huge energy drain.