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Lucy ([personal profile] cereta) wrote in [community profile] lifting_heavy_things2010-08-13 12:03 pm
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[personal profile] ex_wicker969 2010-08-14 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
This would be the "this is the most amazing thing in the world omg I have finally found my sport!" file?

It's so thinky and technical and leaves me just wiped out at the end. You're partly to blame, you know, writing all those "go rock climb!" things.
rydra_wong: stick figure on an indoor climbing wall -- base image taken from the webcomic xkcd (climbing -- xkcd)

[personal profile] rydra_wong 2010-08-16 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
*beams*

Were you climbing before, or have you just started? I want to hear all about it!

[personal profile] ex_wicker969 2010-08-16 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I climbed once my freshman year of college, took a class and got an A and really liked it, but I've been intimidated. There's a rock wall in my new (student) gym so I'm using it as an excuse to get me to the gym. I'm actively climbing about four days a week, two of those seriously and two of those just like "oh, I'll fall off now" because of my other workouts. But I really, really, really love it!

I'm still scared of heights but that's fading as I get more confident, and every week I go back to a particular route to see how my attitude's changed and it's really cool - lots more holds that seemed like SRSLY WUT are now options. I just go up as high as I feel comfortable but that's getting higher. I'm reliably good on VBs and V0s but really stuck as far as V1s go, mostly because I don't have anyone to show me technique (I'll be showing on the bouldering newbie days in fall term) and I just can't hold myself against the wall (our V1s are all at an angle - is that usual?). I have faith in my mats :D

On the hugely plus side, it's got me to kick my soda and Starbucks habits and hit the gym to lift and run, so I feel really awesome these past couple weeks. They're gonna re-place all the routes when fall term starts but I'm hoping they keep a particular traverse... *inspects newly-regained muscles* eeee! :D

I'm a little terrified that I'll lose my nerve when fall term starts and a bajillion people come back into the gym, but 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.

THERE I wrote you a novel. I have no one else to squee to!
rydra_wong: stick figure on an indoor climbing wall -- base image taken from the webcomic xkcd (climbing -- xkcd)

[personal profile] rydra_wong 2010-08-16 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
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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