Prosthesis adventures – Part 2: climbing a steep overhang
It didn’t take me very long to bring my “hook” into climbing action. Here are my very first attempts:
Prosthesis adventures – Part 1
I just got my first ever prosthetic arm. It’s not one of those fancy electronic hands where you can move “your” fingers. Instead, it’s one with a hook, custom-made for me by Hempel. Functionality above aesthetics. As a start, I wanted to be able to cross-country ski with a pole in my left hand, to do pull-ups with a good posture and to give out rope with my left arm when belaying. Then I figured that I could also use it on the campus board and finger board. And it would be totally cool to get an ice axe tool with it at one point (as a friend suggested). Probably I’ll find even more uses for it as I start practicing.
For now, here is a short video of my first testing: campus board, finger board and pull-ups. Kind of a baseline.