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Climbing fake mountains and other futile exercises [sports and such]
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Climbing!
Fake mountains!
Real mountains!
Alien Star Ships!
Raaargh!
So I recently got "back" to climbing, something I did a little before and liked, but didn't have the time for. Now I do, and it's fun as hell! I just don't know what to do in the time in between, maybe general exercises...
Anyone else? Any other fun things you like to do that aren't the regular kind of exercise?
Fake mountains!
Real mountains!
Alien Star Ships!
Raaargh!
So I recently got "back" to climbing, something I did a little before and liked, but didn't have the time for. Now I do, and it's fun as hell! I just don't know what to do in the time in between, maybe general exercises...
Anyone else? Any other fun things you like to do that aren't the regular kind of exercise?
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Just did an awesome trip out to Smith Rock a couple weeks ago, and led the best 5.10b I can ever remember climbing.
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I went up my first lil baby mountain in the blue ridge the other weekend
It was really pretty!
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Climbing might have been the wrong word
I like to go up and down mountains with my feet and then get to the top and use my hands and feet to climb on rocks and shit.
It is approximately NOTHING AT ALL like what @Blake T does.
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How do you start off bouldering, though? Just go in and futz around on the wall? Try and go sideways? I might try it out anyhow. I've been wanting to do something other than weights for a while, but wasn't sure what. We've got a pretty nice rock climbing and bouldering gym only ten minutes away.
But both are fun :P
I've been looking for a sport I like doing and finally I ended up with running and climbing.
well most climbing gyms have courses and such, I'll probably get a course for sport climbing and from there go to anything else I might want.
Someone give me thousands of dollars.
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is it that expensive? not that I would ever be cheap on equipment your live literally depends on, but wouldn't it be more in the "hundreds of dollars" range than thousands?
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dancing is pretty fun. the so was a dancing teacher for something like 5 years, I might need to make her teach me, all I did was a starter course
I put together a trad rack that can do pretty much anything my meagre skill level can ask of it (~20 nuts, 4 hexs, 4 friends, a pile of carabiners, slings and quickdraws) for about £250? Made some savings by looking for sales in shops and the like, but it would have been very hard pressed to be thousands unless you have massive cams or are setting up a rack like an instructor or expert climber would use.
Yeah, best bet is to find a more experienced climbing partner who has their own kit that you can use while you accumulate your own rack (ilu big brother)
I got into climbing in Nov 2011. Went indoors nearly every week, did some trad a few times. Then got lazy and haven't been since Nov 2012. And now I keep putting off going back because I know I am going to completely suck again. Sigh.
the vicious circle of sports. "I'll go next week.", forever..
I have a set of 6 nuts (heh) and 6 hexes. I would definitely like to get a bunch of new slings.Really what I want is a set of nice cams though, and that's where the cost starts to add up. I think having friends who are instructors has skewed my perception of how much is necessary, though.
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Bouldering has problems the same way top roping has routes. Usually you're trying to get to the top and "top out", i.e. climb onto the top of the boulder and walk down the back side, but that just depends on the area.
If there's a climbing gym near you, they will probably have a bouldering area. It is nice because you don't need a partner to boulder in a gym (probably good to have one outdoors still for spotting and such).
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The amount of cams you need really depends on what sort of rock you're climbing on though? Here in the UK you'll only need a few no matter where you're climbing which is why I just have the 4 (as opposed to small nuts, of which you often want as many as you can carry), but in more desert-y sandstone places you want a lot of cams irrc. What's it like where you are or where you're planning to go?
Slings are cheap, get loads. I do enjoy wearing my longer ones like a bandolier and feeling like an action hero
I haven't looked much into bouldering at all so far, but it sounds interesting..
My friends with trad racks all have at least 10 or 12 cams, though, and that's pretty typical of what I have seen everywhere here in the US.
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Do you mean how do you warm up? Just get on the wall and move around a bit. Ignore colours, just practice the movements you'll need. Do a bit of traversing. Do some really easy routes.
And while the point in roped climbing is to get to the top, the point in bouldering is working out problems. So do all the routes you can, and when you find one you can't you throw yourself at it repeatedly until sheer rage gets you up it. If you need a rest you can stand there looking philosophical for a while and pretend you're thinking about technique.
They do! They are short and called problems rather than routes, and don't always go up. The whole thing with bouldering is it's a way to work on technique and try new things. So it tends to be hard and I suck at it. Roped climbing is positively relaxing by comparison.
My trad rack is two full racks of a complete range of standard sized nuts (so around 30 or so) a set of micro cams and a size 1 and a size 2 cam. Unless you are constantly climbing flaring splitter cracks cams aren't super necessary. Same with slings, they are only really necessary if you go off route or need have a lot of runners. You technically only need enough gear to get you to the point where you don't do a cat 1 fall/hit the ground.
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