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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker - AKA The Wideboyz - have established the world's biggest roof crack at White Rim in Utah's Canyonlands National Park, USA. Crown of Thorns 5.14a features 165ft of horizontal climbing.

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In reply to UKC News:

What's an invert torpedo?

In reply to John2:

What's an invert torpedo?

Cock jam?

In reply to FactorXXX:


At a place called "White Rim", I suspect knob cheese, rather than cock jam.........

In reply to UKC News:

This is my new link I'm showing people who say Brits can't crack climb.

In reply to Greasy Prusiks:

And to those who say we're too serious, reserved, never have a laugh and are Victorian prudes

In reply to UKC News:

Would also like to know what an 'Invert Torpedo' is.

Also is a knee lock different to a knee bar? (if so how?)

Anyway cracking effort to the pair of them!

In reply to SuperLee1985:

Knee bar = foot to knee lever between surfaces. Knee lock = just the knee in the crack. That's my understanding anyway!

In reply to Steve Long:

I always assumed the difference was in how the jamming action is generated: Knee bar -> sideways rotation at the hip, Knee lock -> lateral expansion due to bending of the knee. I love offwidth climbing, and am always amused when people think it is only grunting and pain (there is that too) and no technique.

No idea what an invert torpedo (or a standard torpedo at that) is supposed to be. Full body jamming, head up or down?

CB

In reply to cb294:

If you watched the special features on the Wideboyz DVD they covered a whole bunch of new moves they supposedly invented for upside down offwidthing. I couldn't tell if they were being serious or not as they were laughing like schoolgirls the whole time!

In reply to SenzuBean:

Schoolboys surely?