Review - Grivel Star Crack Gloves

We’ve found the performance of the Grivel Star Crack Gloves to be fairly good in most areas we’ve tested them. They do struggle from an ironic twist that their very sticky rubber backing makes them difficult to use in thinner scenarios, but we have found ourselves reaching for them often when climbing in areas of heavy travel where jams can be more polished. These gloves feel very different on the hand than every other glove we’ve tried and we think that is because they are not made to be a glove, but rather a shoe for your hand. Anywhere where you’d be reluctant to jam a hand because it it too sharp, too glassy, or too flaring, you probably wouldn’t think twice about jamming your foot; this is the way your hand feels in this glove. This glove has been found to perform the best in jagged, craggy, flaring cracks– especially in the palm up fist jam when you can really put a lot of weight on it and let the Vibram rubber do its job. If you are climbing thin, grippy cracks like sandstone splitter fingers, you should probably opt for something with a lower profile.