rydra_wong: stick figure on an indoor climbing wall -- base image taken from the webcomic xkcd (climbing -- xkcd)
rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [community profile] lifting_heavy_things 2010-08-16 05:27 pm (UTC)

THERE I wrote you a novel. I have no one else to squee to!

YAY PEOPLE WRITING NOVEL-LENGTH POSTS ABOUT CLIMBING FOR ME! But you should also post this to [community profile] disobey_gravity -- there are people there who'd want to squee with you too!

And I'd love to see more squee-age in that comm; I think it's at that awkward stage where it's not quite busy enough to encourage people to jump in.

lots more holds that seemed like SRSLY WUT are now options

I love that so much. Especially when I realize my fingers have undergone one of their periodic upgrades.

our V1s are all at an angle - is that usual?

Not really -- difficulty shouldn't just be about "smaller holds and steeper walls".

At the wall I climb at, I've seen up to V5 on the slab alone. Though they'll also set stuff on the steepest overhangs and call it V0, because they're bastards like that *g*.

I think I like it enough (I need my brainy thinky muscley fix) to sneak in at odd off-hours until I feel comfortable with other people around.

That worked for me as a strategy!

mostly because I don't have anyone to show me technique

I can rec some books/DVDs if that'd be of any interest.

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