In reply to Paz:
> Gaston. Your entry on the historical origin of the term is correct but nobody but nobody climbs cracks that way anymore
Ahem. If there's a crack that needs it (some do) then you do. Hence pictures showing people doing Gastons - often in Yosemite, I think.
> or describes climbing a crack as that (it's just thrutchiung surely).
I don't think you've grokked the difference between a Gaston and a thrutch.
> It is however commonly used also as a noun to describe a sidepull that points the wrong way (a gaston), as well as the act of using such a hold (gastoning sp?) similarly to what you've got.
I've really not heard it used that way, except by people who don't know what it means..
> Similarly for Thumb sprags, I've heard them used to just describe getting your thumb on any pebble or other protruberance, often to turn the hold into a pinch.
Then again, you've been talking to folk who don't know what a thumb sprag is. For an example, see Johnny Dawes on Best Forgotten Art doing the boulder problem - 7a crack? - at Millstone.
> Knee bar, you might as well have Heel Toe bar/jam and Toe Hook too.
OK, so define them.
> Open handing + Half crimping. Best have a diagram.
OK, point to one - bound to be out there somewhere.
> Pressing. A big move at the end of range of motion of a pull move where the elbow moves back or starts to open out (extend). Like mantelling on steep terrain
Needs work, but almost there.
> Guppying. (really guessing) Holding weird slopers with hand parallel to the rock, e.g. gastoning of the heel of your hand.
Has anyone else heard this ever?
> Cupping. Holding weird shaped slowers with hand perpendicular ot the rock and little finger next to the rock.
I can't even visualise this. Got an example?
> Gratton. Small foot edge, often blackened and polished, and in Fontainebleau, poffed.
Not heard this one.
> Poff.
I think Pof is in there.
> Scoop.
OK, define it.
> Crozzle. A crozzly bit of rock.
> Crozzly. Of or like a crozzle.
Recursive: see recursive.
> Lock off.
> Divot.
?
> Cut loose.
> Spotting
Both deserve a definition.
> Matts/ Pads (Bouldering matts).
I've got a friend called Matt, but the things on the ground are mats.
My general point being: it's not enough to suggest words. You have to come up with a definition - ideally in the spirit of the existing definitions.