Taping Up

Taping up is not much practiced in the UK where gritstone jamming scars are worn with pride, but is common in the USA where several hundred feet of hand-sized granite crack is the norm.

Metolius - Finger Tape

£3.99

Sore wrist or tweaked finger that needs support, but you still can't stop climbing?! Metolius's 100% cotton tape may be the solution to keeping you on the rocks.

 

Lyon - "Mueller" Finger Tape

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£2.50

High-tensile, non-stretch, zinc oxide strapping tape. Three widths.

 

Triop - Crag Gloves (aka Jammers) (pair)

£21.95

Rockshoes for your hands! Crag Gloves are fingerless rock shoe rubber-backed things for protecting the backs of your hands whilst hand-jamming.

 

Mad Rock - The Finger

£6.50

Little black rubber thingies to roll over your appendage and protect it! Designed to enable boulderers to keep bouldering, even when they split a tip.