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Southern Heel posted:I've done wall climbing a few times before and it was kind of fun, but I'm looking for something I can do solo - is bouldering something I can do, renting shoes/etc. initially and just go every couple of weeks on my own at first? Or am I going to need to get specific lessons/buy gear to get anything out of it? Bouldering is a perfect way to get into the sport. Just need shoes. You don’t have to talk to anyone or have a belayer with you. Once you start climbing and have a feel for it you can watch YouTube vids for more technical advice. Some gyms like mine offer classes once you’re ready fo tackle V3 and above or how to use some of the specific rock climbing equipment like campusing or hangboards George H.W. Cunt fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Aug 24, 2018 |
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meowmeowmeowmeow posted:Don't climb with belayers you don't trust.
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Bouldering can be done solo, just do research and go in hyper aware of how high things are, and how dangerous it id to protrct falls. Some climbs will definitely be mentally foreboding if the difficulty is at the edge of your limit. It is also a good idea to try to take two pads or larger pads like Mondos/organics.
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Aug 25, 2018 04:19
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Did 16 pitches up the Chief yesterday. Dierdre, Boomstick, Squamish Buttress. 12 hours on the rock and I feel like I got whammered by a meat tenderizer today, goddamn.
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Any Polish climbing goons? It's looking like I'll be in Warsaw for a week around the end of the month, and I'd like to climb if possible.
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armorer posted:Any Polish climbing goons? It's looking like I'll be in Warsaw for a week around the end of the month, and I'd like to climb if possible. Warsaw gyms are awful. I think you may have more success with checking on Vertical Life or Mountain project
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Managed to (I think) pull a tendon in my left forearm/hand on an overhang while bouldering. Staff suggested it may be a tendon pull and recommended at least two weeks rest. They suggested I check the Internet for more advice and maybe try not to keep it completely rested. I'll be travelling for a few days but what are some things I can do? The tautness is from the middle of the inside of my forearm right through to the middle finger of my left hand. An hour after my session now it's more noticeable a feeling when I ball my fist up, but I seem to have pretty much full range of motion with nothing I could properly describe as "pain". I'm mostly hoping that I can still lug around a carry-on suitcase with both hands and fumble with passports/boarding passes/train tickets just fine!
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What kind of facilities are you going to have access to? Icing it is probably out of the question but if you have a mini fridge in a hotel room or w/e you could use a cold, wet flannel to try and keep the swelling down a bit
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It's a hostel dorm room so perhaps extremely limited facilities.
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Sep 11, 2018 21:04
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I wouldn't ice, in my limited experience with tendon injuries the most important thing is to encourage blood flow so that bad poo poo gets flushed and good poo poo gets to the injury. Very light exercise that you stop when it gets tight/uncomfortable without ever getting painful is what fixed both a finger and wrist injury in the past, after weeks to months of time off waiting for passive recovery with no improvement.
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Meowmeow is mostly right, except that alternating icing/heat for the first ~48 hours or so while it's swollen is a good idea. But after that, just heat.
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Good news is no swelling, as near as I can tell, but it is more tender than yesterday, especially when expanding or contracting my hand to the fullest of its range of motion. Feels like an annoyance more than a worry, probs just needs two weeks to recover like the climbing wall staff said. Cheers guys!
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Sep 12, 2018 05:29
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I feel like round two on the choss monster if it dries out before the snow hits. I might be insane.
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Not sure how anyone in this thread can flat out say do or don't ice, there is no good literature with studies behind either position. For tendons
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Sep 12, 2018 06:15
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In the absence of evidence make up something that sounds good 
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Rime posted:I feel like round two on the choss monster if it dries out before the snow hits. I might be insane. 
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnjdt52DNWN/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet I'm the pink blob.
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Well, no real recovery process followed other than resting these past few days, and though it's not generally painful anymore, it feels painful when I pull on it (a suitcase held with all fingers for too long, or accidentally forgetting that I had an injured tendon and trying to lift my laptop edge with one of the affected fingers, ouch!). So just more rest I guess!
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Sep 16, 2018 12:54
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Well it's been raining here for three weeks straight, is forecast to rain for another two weeks at least, and is now snowing hard in the alpine. So, uh, that was a brief and hosed up season this year.
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Cut my thumb badly working with stainless. About 1/16” deep and 1/2” across the thumb pad. And I was so close to a V10. 
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gamera009 posted:Cut my thumb badly working with stainless. About 1/16” deep and 1/2” across the thumb pad. This makes me sad.
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oh, to be close to a v10. i envy you. doctors give you a timeframe on it being good to go? i hope you can get back to it quickly and don't lose too much progress.  in other news, just recently i got my first v4 and tried crack climbing. ow, my feet.
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Tactical Lesbian posted:tried crack climbing. ow, my feet. Once you get it though your hands and feet will feel at home. At least in hand sized cracks.
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spwrozek posted:Once you get it though your hands and feet will feel at home. At least in hand sized cracks. at least my hands felt great, well, it strained my fingers when they were a little wider than my hands. i'd never felt my fingers ache like that, haha. but when i slid my hand down into a cozy spot it felt so right.
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Not sure how fast it will close still managed to bleed yesterday even, after working the bottling line. 
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I'm realizing my sport rack of all the same length draws isn't cutting it--how do you guys do alpine draws? Do you buy premade ones or do you just swap the dogbone on old quickdraws for a sling when they go bad? For these slings, what thickness, length, and material should be used? Would a dyneema/nylon mix be better than a pure nylon one (I know they have different stretch properties)
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Suicide Watch posted:I'm realizing my sport rack of all the same length draws isn't cutting it--how do you guys do alpine draws? Do you buy premade ones or do you just swap the dogbone on old quickdraws for a sling when they go bad? For these slings, what thickness, length, and material should be used? Would a dyneema/nylon mix be better than a pure nylon one (I know they have different stretch properties) What are you using them for? Sport or trad? I find alpine draws annoying for sport because they flop around too much, whereas sport draws tend to have a stiffer dogbone and the gates remain oriented well and are easier to clip. On my alpine draws I went full dyneema because I wanted the weight savings. It does limit their uses in theory if I find myself in some weird situation where I need to use remaining draws to build an anchor or something, but it hasn't been an issue in practice. You can certainly cannibalize carabiners from worn out sport draws to make into alpine draws. You don't want to be tearing down and rebuilding good sport draws repeatedly though. There have been reported accidents where someone failed to properly reassemble a sport draw (typically clipping the rubber retainer but missing the actual dogbone) and then had it come apart in a fall. I built my alpines while my sport draws were still perfectly good, so I built them from scratch. Basically I waited for a good carabiner to be on sale cheap somewhere and then bought a ton of them. armorer fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Sep 28, 2018 |
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Yeah, two sets of DMM alpha trad on sale and two sets of whatever poo poo I could scavenge around. I've got frickin' Faders on a few of my alpine. Make sure to have a few using 120cm slings for when you really don't want a piece to move.
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The tango alpines are super nice.
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I’ll be in Chicago next weekend anyone have a favorite bouldering gym?
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I'd go to either First Ascent Humboldt Park or First Ascent Block 37.
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Niyqor posted:I'd go to either First Ascent Humboldt Park or First Ascent Block 37. Yes this
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I was there for a conference a few months ago and went to block 37 a couple times. Conference was at McCormick so it was pretty convenient, and I thought the setting was good. And they have a moonboard if you’re into that
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Saw the Dawn Wall last night and it was really good. Absolutely beautiful shots and the story is inspiring as all hell. Pretty cool we are getting two climbing documentaries both about el cap in the same year.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Saw the Dawn Wall last night and it was really good. Absolutely beautiful shots and the story is inspiring as all hell. Pretty cool we are getting two climbing documentaries both about el cap in the same year. I almost went to see it but I figured I'll wait for Free Solo, cause if I'm going to watch a full length El Cap documentary it might as well be the more dangerous one.
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Mons Hubris posted:I almost went to see it but I figured I'll wait for Free Solo, cause if I'm going to watch a full length El Cap documentary it might as well be the more dangerous one. For what it is worth I saw both and would say the Dawn Wall was good but really lacked enough climbing. Free Solo was awesome though. Not quite Meru but very good.
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I moved to Denver, joined the new climbing gym with the tallest walls in the country, got shoes and a chalk bag, and am going bouldering tonight for the first time. I am also in my late 30s with bad flexibility so I am prepared to suck. Am I doing it right?
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No
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poo poo Help me do it better
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Make sure you have fun
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