Sekine-sensei

Ah, I never mentioned Sekine-sensei! I met him at the climbing gym in Edogawabashi. He's in his early or mid-fifties, slight but muscular of build (like all the best climbers!), and fond of purple shirts. His hair is short, and he has a trim, greying beard. He has spectacular laugh-lines at the corners of his eyes. He carries around a laser pointer at all times so that he can can point to holds when he's helping people figure climbs out, which is frequently. He's a master of footwork, and the efficiency and agility of his technique is actually inspiring. He has made bouldering problems which are logged and diagrammed in the folders at both the Edogawabashi and Nishi-Kokubunji gyms (bouldering problems generally consist of a series of specific holds which must be reached in sequence. No other holds can be used, and usually there's some elegant trick to completing good problems). His "pen name" so to speak, when he signs a bouldering problem, is "Wilee," after Wile-E Coyote :) He seemed to be friends with everyone at both gyms, between which it seems he divides practically all of his time.