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NEWS: Nem, ~8B+, by Woods

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 UKC News 03 Mar 2015
Daniel Woods on Nem, ~8B+, Varazze, Italy, 4 kbDaniel Woods and Dave Graham are in Varazze, Italy right now. The plan is to repeat Christian Core's Gioia, ~8C/+.
I asked Daniel if he had done it yet:

Not yet... It's close... I've done tried for my first days here.
Did Nem [~8B+] the other day but split two tips during the send.
Dave found...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=69551
 1poundSOCKS 03 Mar 2015
In reply to UKC News:

"Knee scum: This can occur when a climber is unable to step high enough to a foothold, such that they place their knee upon the hold to take the weight of the climber for upward progress."

So knee scum = mountaineer's knee.
 abarro81 03 Mar 2015
In reply to 1poundSOCKS:

Can't tell if that's a joke or not? Knee scum just means a shitty kneebar
 1poundSOCKS 03 Mar 2015
In reply to abarro81:

I got the definition from a Google search. Doesn't sound like a knee bar. Never heard of a knee scum before. Was kind of imagining Seb Grieve on Meshuga.
 abarro81 03 Mar 2015
In reply to 1poundSOCKS:
It's just a kneebar where instead of being a solid 'bar', the knee is instead just scumming poorly on the rock.
e.g. at 3.15: vimeo.com/38377140
Post edited at 14:17
 robin mueller 03 Mar 2015
In reply to 1poundSOCKS:

That google definition is nonsense. Listen to abarro81, he knows his knee scums.
 1poundSOCKS 03 Mar 2015
In reply to robin mueller:

> That google definition is nonsense. Listen to abarro81, he knows his knee scums.

I think he's just Dave Graham in disguise, and he's embarrassed about using mountaineer's knee on a world famous boulder problem.
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