In reply to ro8x:
> sage advice on the art of making your hands stick into things.
Nowt against Tom, but it's a bit odd this as, really, how much sage advice do we need? Considering it's called hand-, finger- and fist-jamming, what you do is sort of said in the name isn't it?
Ok so you can hand jam thumb up or thumb down, but beyond that I'm not convinced there is so much too it.
When people say "I don't know how to hand jam" I often think a) they haven't tried or b) what they really mean is "I don't like hand-jamming" which is perfectly valid but not the same thing!
BTW, Steve Mc wrote in his climb column some years back that a climbing doctor had explained to him how the difference between men's and women's skin structure means that jamming will be much more painful for women. I reckon all women who want to climb cracks should just wear crack gloves and be done with it; and no bloke should make even the slightest bit of a snide comment about it unless they want to get beaten to a pulp by one Pamela Shanti-Pack's Camalot #27s, and that would hurt!