Thursday, June 22, 2006
Through the climb there'll be ups and downs(hopefully only 1 of each though)
teengames sports climbing episode ii: the pongsters strike back
yep today went for the 2nd session. forgot to mention that 1st session was speed climb, basically fall off still can continue, timing is the most crucial part. today's is challenge climb! ie you climb as high as you can, and they take the panel you climbed to as the score.
gavan had both his wisdom teeth removed. so he's trying to get mc for the whole of next week, cause he lost all the wisdom he has. (just kidding, gavan don't be angry =P)
before the climb, went to paya lebar again for lunch. gerald tay and i shared a buddy meal, while gavan only ate whip potato. pet had a shrooms meal and grace starved. according to her she said she already ate breakfast, so cannot eat lunch. even though 17 years of experience tells me that you are supposed to eat BOTH breakfast and lunch, maybe that only applies to me.
when we reached there, i was totally shocked. the place suddenly became damn holy. the only reason being the increase in number of holes in the climbing wall. there were 5 routes altogether, and each category is supposed to climb 3 (each climber climb one). and the guys are supposed to climb the omgwtfbbq overhang. if you don't know what an overhang is, basically tilt your head up about 90deg and you see an overhang. for the ri ppl, overhang is similar to what we had on our wall, the one on the extreme right.
but this overhang isn't any overhang, its one which most ppl can easily overcome, if they can defy gravity. in short, it is a 2 panel long overhang (1 panel is 1m long). definitely not for the weak-minded, weak-hearted, weak-fingered, weak-handed, weak-armed, weak-legged and weak-bodyed, therefore i didn't climb it. gerald tay the man climbed it, managed to reach the edge of the overhang, but he just couldn't get the hang of it and fell, just like every single climber who attempted it (yes no one made it to the top).
being the weakest climber, i climbed the one that looked the most noobie, basically the only flat wall climb. so during the climb is like "i must complete it i must complete it, ahhh i must complete it, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...." and fell off the 4th or is it 3rd panel. but after that i learnt that many of the climbers didn't pass it too, so felt a bit better.
after the results were announced, did some free and easy climbing. then we tried to get charlene up one of the routes. she was tired from the competition and the route requires quite a lot of arm power, so she got stuck. being too weak to provide approximately 490.5N (50 * 9.81) of force to negate the pull of gravity, other ppl started anchoring me, since i had to look at charlene, i can't tell you how many ppl or who were anchoring me, but basically they were pulling me along and charlene went all the way to the top without even having to climb.
the part about charlene going all the way to the top is a lie. sorry, couldn't resist saying that. lol. anyway good effort charlene =)
possibly the fastest also became possibly the highest, coming in 1st, runners up, again while mummies came in 1st, again too!
世上只有妈妈好, 是妈的孩子赢了宝
(you may have to detect your encoding to see this chinese sentence)
shi4 shang4 zhi2 you3 ma1 ma1 hao3, shi4 ma1 de4 hai2 zi3 ying2 le4 bao3
for us, not bad la, there were 10 teams in the competition and we managed to come in 4th, pretty good achievement i would say.
got quite friendly with the other participants there, basically the climbing cca from SRJC, rocmoc (rock climbing and mountain climbing) and some church goers from hope presbytarian. probably thanks to gina who got everyone hyper by screaming shouting and cheering for everybody who were climbing. they are really good climbers, they did really well for their climbs and very friendly ppl too.
then me, gerald tay, gavan, grace, meiting and charlene went to kfc again for dinner. had buddy meal again. grace and charlene also ate buddy meal, and meiting ate a shrooms meal. i can't believe how little some girls eat. you can't even call it shrooms burger, more like shrooms bu, since its barely half a burger. maybe its not that she doesn't want to eat anything else, but she's hoping to be like mario. whats more, meiting gave her whipped potato to gavan cause she couldn't finish it o_o.
rock-climbing is so damn fun! and it only costs $10 per person to rent the wall for 4hrs!!! its so cheap! only more 50c more expensive than lan! we should really go there and rock climb someday. we can train and take part in the national climbing competition too! and be the first winners of the competition!
rock climbing! speed climbing! challenge climbing! wooooooooooooooooooooooo!
W loved ODAC at 8:41 PM
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