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couchmaster
climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 6, 2008 - 04:09pm PT
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Rumor on another site is that a place in Colo is making climbing specific kneepads for Rifle climbers.
It's not just that I am a weenie, OK, that too, but I tweaked my knee a bit skiing with my boy this winter and have my eyes on a wyde crack I want to get up. Can anyone provide info like an address, phone number or a web site?
any experiences or ideas?
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Head down to your local rite-aid/longs drugs and get yourself some neoprene knee sleeves. That's all you'll need for the knees. Many wide crack folks use those, so that's no biggee. It's the climbing rubber on the kneepads that makes you a weenie and would be considered aid!
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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I'm pretty sure you can buy them at GHEY-MART.
You can always take a neoprene knee (or elbow) sleeve style "brace", (one of the ones that is only coated on one side) and and wear it inside out so the rubber faces out. They're pretty sticky but you'll tear them up quickly.
If it's the wide you're after, and you want skin protection/padding forget the sticky rubber, just wear normal neoprene sleeves under your pants.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Maybe at a church somewhere? :-)
My mother had reinforced leather knee pads for gardening, but they were fairly stiff.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2013 - 11:52am PT
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THANKS JOHN MAC!!! Kneepad info/thread revival bump for Bruce. Stealth kneepads were $25 a pad, $50 total, plus shipping from Robert at Rock and Resole in Boulder.
They are the bees knees for short routes. Used them to get up this FA.
Then forgot them on the next 2 wide routes I FAed the next year. They're pretty snug and sweat heavily, you start to want to peel them off in < 20 min. - there is no way you could wear them up the Steck Salathe.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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there is no way you could wear them up the Steck Salathe You'd be amazed what you can get used to, I'm acquainted with a woman who has been known to sleep in them!
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Those things are as bad as using chalk
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cultureshock
Trad climber
Mountain View
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I used neoprene sleeves for the Steck-Salathe. Not a fan of the additional sweating but they are nice on the knees.
They make climbs like Midterm a lot more fun.
The ones with the stealth rubber are most commonly used at places like Rife and Jailhouse.
Knee pads at the jailhouse!
If you want ones with rubber my suggestion is to buy a pair of neoprene sleeves, so you know the fit, and then send them to Rock and Resole with your climbing shoes. $20 a pad seems mesh with my memory. You spend more money overall if you buy a nicer knee sleve, like the McDavid ones, but they last longer.
5.10 now sells a kneebar pad directly. It's a more expensive and thinner than making your own, or having rock and resole make you one. I think they would be horrible for offwidthds.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I wrote a review of those for 5.10 but never heard back.
The thing about sticky knee pads is that on days when it's too hot for long pants you can wear them with shorts; depends on the route of course. Another thing you can do is wear them around your ankles in the narrower part oa a climb and pull them up when the crack gets wider. I generally do the done lubbin' that way.
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WBraun
climber
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For off-width you don't want knee pads to begin with.
For those extreme off-width routes tape the area on the side of your knee area.
Way better than knee pads.
Knee pads for off-width is stupid.
They are too thick and a move around and/or you'll get your knee stuck or won't get it in the crack on narrower size.
Knee pads for off-width = stupid .......
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