Yeah, the military could sure stand to benefit from it!
Poor guys floatin down outta the sky that far, only to break a leg, due to numbness n poor restricted blood flow.
However today's innovation involved boots, ergonomic carbon fiber MotoX knee braces.
As many know, I busted myself up pretty badly by aspiring to ride with the big boys in the 70's n 80's, and while all four appendages are still functional, my days of making power moves upwards in the trees are over.
After 46 years of climbin commercially, you tend to get real persnickety about being comfortable while aloft, particularly on gaffs.
Lotsa climbers wear padding of some sort, even with the plushest steel insert spur stays available, I use the offset Bashln's myself
Wearing knee braces, whose original inner foam lining wore out long ago, to be replaced by foam hip pads worn inside MotoX pants, that all too soon flatten to uselessness.
So necessity being the mother of invention, I went to extreme measures.
Now car thieves n tow truck drivers carry around interesting toolkits.
One of which is an inflatable real slim heavy duty airbag, for pryin open doors n windows n stuff.
So I ordered up a couple, slid them under my braces at the exact spot where spur stays make contact with your inside and front upper shin bone.
Luckily my braces an open spot on the lower outside thigh, just big enough for the inflation bulb to rest in.
So I did my first test run today, no gaffs, more a comfort test prunin an ancient ole Cal Pepper, somewhere east of Eden.
By lunch I realized the airbags had migrated from their desired location.
An easy enough fix with a bit of industrial Velcro fixing the bags to the inside of my braces.
But it was certainly sweet n plush for an hour or two today.
Jemco
Poor guys floatin down outta the sky that far, only to break a leg, due to numbness n poor restricted blood flow.
However today's innovation involved boots, ergonomic carbon fiber MotoX knee braces.
As many know, I busted myself up pretty badly by aspiring to ride with the big boys in the 70's n 80's, and while all four appendages are still functional, my days of making power moves upwards in the trees are over.
After 46 years of climbin commercially, you tend to get real persnickety about being comfortable while aloft, particularly on gaffs.
Lotsa climbers wear padding of some sort, even with the plushest steel insert spur stays available, I use the offset Bashln's myself
Wearing knee braces, whose original inner foam lining wore out long ago, to be replaced by foam hip pads worn inside MotoX pants, that all too soon flatten to uselessness.
So necessity being the mother of invention, I went to extreme measures.
Now car thieves n tow truck drivers carry around interesting toolkits.
One of which is an inflatable real slim heavy duty airbag, for pryin open doors n windows n stuff.
So I ordered up a couple, slid them under my braces at the exact spot where spur stays make contact with your inside and front upper shin bone.
Luckily my braces an open spot on the lower outside thigh, just big enough for the inflation bulb to rest in.
So I did my first test run today, no gaffs, more a comfort test prunin an ancient ole Cal Pepper, somewhere east of Eden.
By lunch I realized the airbags had migrated from their desired location.
An easy enough fix with a bit of industrial Velcro fixing the bags to the inside of my braces.
But it was certainly sweet n plush for an hour or two today.
Jemco
