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 HakanT 05 Mar 2014
How do you deal with calluses on your fingers? During the indoor season, I've developed calluses on three fingers on each hand. Yesterday, I ripped one off bouldering, which is going to keep me from climbing for a while. Do you treat your calluses, and if so, what do you do?
 mwr72 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

Leave it alone on a night!

Seriously though, some people use moisturiser, I think "Climb-On" is a similar thing developed specifically for climbers. Though being a manual worker I've always had calluses and they have never caused me any trouble.
Hopefully someone better qualified to comment will be along soon.
 chris85 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

Sandpaper! Or a nail file! File them down, not to the point of being sore, but so they dont stick up so much, Ive found this is the only way, or, as you have found out, they can rip off!
cb294 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

Do nothing, tape if they rip.

CB
 Dr Toph 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

Climb more slopers routes, that should sort out yer calluses in no time
 ark05 05 Mar 2014
FYI the climbing technical term is "a flapper"!
 JLS 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

>"I ripped one off bouldering, which is going to keep me from climbing for a while."

MTFU :¬)
 crayefish 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

> Do you treat your calluses, and if so, what do you do?

Soak them in a mixture of the blood of virgins and the milk of a spotted lizard. Or just use them to touching small girls' legs...

 alooker 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

Use different hold types, reduce the amount of twisting your hand does on jugs especially, file down the hard skin on callouses to stop them catching. Tape flappers up so you can keep climbing
OP HakanT 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

Thans everyone for your useful (and occasionally disturbing) input. Off to file my fingers.
 Choss 05 Mar 2014
In reply to HakanT:

Pumice stone in the bath
 butteredfrog 05 Mar 2014
In reply to Choss:
Where's the soap!
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