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open-hand en · VERB
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To perform an action using an open hand.
Often you will find yourself doing unlikely things such as crimping a sloper or open-handing a severely incut small edge.
2011, Peter Beal, Bouldering: Movement, Tactics, and Problem Solving, →ISBN:If you face a little larger, or positive, edge, open-hand the hold, as it lets more of the skeletal system of the hand bear the brunt.
1997, Steve Boga, Caving, →ISBN, page 111:Israel landed in county lockup in 1981 after open-handing a white guy in Waikiki.
2009, Dan Kois, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future, →ISBN, page 31:
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