You are listening to the Enormo Cast.

The Enorma Cast is proud to be partnered with Sportiva.

And here's the thing.

There is only one shoe that has climbed the hardest roots on our cap, including something called the dawn wall.

In that shoe is the TC Pro, designed by Tommy Caldwell and produced in a hollowed out volcano in Italy by blind

zoastrian nuns. These are the shoes that our friend Hayden Kennedy once

called crampons for granted. But the TC Pro is just one of so many legendary shoes in the

Sportiva line, the Miras, the testaroses, the solutions, the meathos, and

something new called the squamma. What's a squ squama? Who cares? It's Italian. So please support

the Normacast by going to sportiva.com or your favorite climbing retailer

to check out the full line of Sportiva shoes and then quit screwing around and buy a pair and come play with the big kids. Does your partner suffer from tried-again syndrome or one hangitis or even worse delusional performance disorder?

Well, there really isn't a cure for DPD

except for a good Smackdown,

but it does probably mean that you've been belaying them for hours and hours on end and are now suffering from

BMP or belayer neck pain. A stiffness in the cervical spine just below the occipital

region of your thick, thick skull.

But now there's a cure for B&P resulting from DPD.

Ask your doctor about ballet specs.

And when he doesn't know what the hell you're talking about,

just smile and tuck that prescription for opiates away for your next overseas plane flight.

But then ask several strangers about ballet specs.

Ask that cute barista at the coffee shop on the corner about ballet specs.

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