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Post by salomonj on Oct 17, 2019 9:30:42 GMT
I’ve done quite a few sports throughout my life but never has one given me the euphoria or feeling that climbing does. I joined a bouldering gym about a year ago and was hooked after climb one. It’s equal part sport and social for me now, love the community and have made great friends and it’s easy to spend hours there every day. It’s really become a total addiction. The problem/puzzle solving combined with the physicality required that continues in a never ending cycle of challenge as you progress never gets old, nor does the rush you get after you’ve sent a hard project.
Any climbers here or opinion on the sport in general? I think it’s easily the best one out there.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 9:40:03 GMT
Was a very obsessed climber from 17 to about 40. Was completely immersed in that world and culture around climbing back then. I lived it, breathed it. A way of life.
Trad climbing on rock, not this modern risk free, indoor plastic, or clip up sport routes.
Used to climb locally during the week, then travel to other crags around Britain at weekends with my pals, climbing, drinking, and dossing wherever.
Decked out from 10 metres up one time, knocked out, knackered back, lucky to survive really... Drifted away from climbing after that, head for it had gone. Could never quite get it back. Seen enough people killed and seriously injured in falls before that. Big deck out myself shook me up too much... I fought the fear for a while, but it had got to me.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 17, 2019 12:09:37 GMT
I tried it once. I'm probably spelling this wrong - 'Belaying'? i.e. where you hold the rope for another climber. Went to a 'Rock Gym' that's local to me. Apparently I didn't do it right because the rope slid down my hand in-between my index finger and thumb and was a bloody mess. The instructor told me I was lucky I didn't lose my thumb  I'd love to give it another shot though  |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 17, 2019 13:02:33 GMT
If we're talking the outdoors, hell yeah. If we're talking rock walls or whatever at a gym, nah.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 17, 2019 16:29:13 GMT
Used to climb locally during the week, then travel to other crags around Britain at weekends with my pals, climbing, drinking, and dossing wherever. Combining rock climbing and drinking seems like a genuinely horrible idea.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 16:37:53 GMT
Used to climb locally during the week, then travel to other crags around Britain at weekends with my pals, climbing, drinking, and dossing wherever. Combining rock climbing and drinking seems like a genuinely horrible idea. Hard drinking, and other drugs, were just part of the lifestyle back then. We were rock and dole stars. Climb hard all day, party hard all night. |
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Post by marco26 on Oct 17, 2019 16:49:57 GMT
We have a family home upstate. I have been climbing waterfalls since I was eight years old. It's tricky, it's scary, it's also peaceful. And I used to take it a step further -- I'd do it barefoot.
I once literally fell off a mountain...slid down the hill because of all the fallen and dead leaves and was heading toward a drop about fifteen feet high. Fortunately, as I fell off the cliff there was a tree there. Fell right into the tree, grabbed it and broke my fall.
Have to be honest, I hate all that indoor-plastic-climbing-attached-to-ropes rock walls yuppy crap. That's like scuba diving in a swimming pool.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 17, 2019 19:32:40 GMT
nope.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Oct 17, 2019 19:39:39 GMT
Another insightful post by you. Where do you come up with all your in-depth material? |
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 17, 2019 20:55:02 GMT
Another insightful post by you. Where do you come up with all your in-depth material? Where does he come up with his in depth material, at all? |
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