No, you don't understand. They're all left liberal wannabe hippies who eat söy and their smell is very söyish too somehow. They are annoying and snobbish
this is exactly right, my sister is into this crap and she's dragged me along with her a few times, plus I've seen the fricking gays she associates with. frick rock climbing, just literally go climb a rock outside by yourself if you want to do it. rock climbers are so gay they don't even climb trees lol, 'no holds'.
I believe the modern bouldering gym culture about being inclusive is primarily skewed to running it like a business and making money. The larger the customer base, more $$.
10 years ago, my city only had one bouldering gym and it was in a dingy and rundown state. Only 'hardcore' climbers went and it was a failing business, it was purely a training centre for the owner and he didn't care about making money.
A collective of people took over and they went gangbusters for a few years, opened up a few more branches (inclusivity and hippie vibe). But now they are so many options the market is saturated, it sounds like they're struggling now. The setting nowadays is also dogshit, it's all dyno moves which is influenced by the competition climbing scene. Who the frick boulders and climbs routes with dynos? > old man climber
No, you don't understand. They're all left liberal wannabe hippies who eat söy and their smell is very söyish too somehow. They are annoying and snobbish
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this is exactly right, my sister is into this crap and she's dragged me along with her a few times, plus I've seen the fricking gays she associates with. frick rock climbing, just literally go climb a rock outside by yourself if you want to do it. rock climbers are so gay they don't even climb trees lol, 'no holds'.
This only happens in cheap gyms or outside. If you go to an expensive gym you won't see those stinky hippies.
Actually I like White libtards. They are generous, helpful, and know good restaurants. Working class conservatives are mostly snakes who will try to screw you at the first opportunity. I my neighbors were all libtards with pic related, I would know that I live in an affluent, high-trust neighborhood
My experience is the opposite with people I know - they are utterly unhinged, care about shitty American politics even though they are not American, they are constantly broke and blame everybody but themselves, pretend to care about distant faraway social issues like global warming and systemic racism (which in practice mostly entails seething about billionaires), yet they treat everyone around them like shit. They constantly try to ferret out that you are a horrible evil racist neocon fascist and ask innocent sounding loaded questions to prove it.
They practice a form of 'egalitarianism' that entails hating everyone who's better than them and at the same time pretending they are smarter and more moral than anyone around them.
They also have a shitty victimhood complex.
I could go on but you get the idea.
From my experience they are good people to live around, they will volunteer, keep the community clean, polite. But eventually their Black person-loving politics will erode the community and then they will wipe their hands, and move to another well-off community, rinse and repeat.
you're goddamn right
t. moved from le based and conservative south to libtard massachusetts (and the most left-lib "science is real" part of the whole state)
Alpinism is moronic. I don't want to freeze my ass off in some shithole, I want to climb on rocks.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
You mean you want to climb on wieners you homo
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
He's right climbers are homosexual onions boys.
They stopped just before the finish line. Be an Alpinist do something cool
Why not both? You drive to the mountains, set up a stealth campsite near a stream, then you make some trips up mountains. If you can talk a friend into it, you can go on glaciers, you just need to practice glacier escape techniques. There is certainly a huge amount of walking but you don't freeze your ass off. Anything in the alps is doable as a single day trip from a reasonable altitude.
She can climb my rock, if you guys can read between the lines on this one.
Well, I mean, maybe not her exactly. One with less defined abs, a little more fat would be idea. Less steroid use.
Full of programmers and sales guys. If you don’t talk to any of these people, it’s great. Just pretend not to understand english if they try to approach you; That’s what I usually do.
I don't get IST's obsession with rambling about climbing gyms being full of flabby söymen. The climbing gym I go to usually has a group of ripped zoomers shooting the shit and challenging each other to flash stuff, a couple toned chicks working on projects, some 30-something dude who climbs super hard and some dad who's there with his kids.
>3 different climbing gyms in my city >very few fat people >almost every girl is hot and fit >everyone is happy to talk to anyone climbing near them >everyone cheers on everyone else climbing near them when they're working hard on anything
This has been my experience at each gym.
Is the bar that low? I can deadhang for 1+ minute but my one-arm game is non-existant. Pullups RM is 6 from deadhang but the last 2 look gnarly.
What's the minimum strength level to bruteforce a v2 with no previous experience? Don't wanna spend 80 bux to spend an hour at a glorified jungle gym.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Bouldering requires a lot of footwork to be good. You should be able to do every V1 and some V2's with whatever strength you've got. My advice would be to climb every V0 then every V1 then start on V2's.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Bouldering requires a lot of footwork to be good.
Well frick. I have the foot coordination of a peg-legged Cambodian lot lizard with cerebral palsy. Time to stop fricking around with sissies and start working on my pistol squat.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's really not too bad at all at lower grades. You can get up to v4's with minimal footwork improvement
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
a couple tips from a v10ish climber: >use your toes, don't just slap your whole foot on a hold. you can pivot much better on your toes and you can use much smaller footholds >when you need to keep your foot on when going for a dynamic move or any move where you really need to keep your feet on, scrunch up your toes really hard. dont just put your foot on the hold, flex your foot so your toes curl >experiment with high feet, I see a lot of noobs always keeping their feet as low as possible. this sucks on overhanging terrain as your body will form a much longer lever than if you were to have your feet high. putting a foot on one of the holds your hand is currently on is a thing, its called hand foot matching. experiment >dont be afraid to cut feet if the movement calls for it. times to cut: very dynamic move to good hold(s), when the feet are very awkward or out of position to get any use out of them. I see a lot of people doing all kinds of fancy shit just to get to a huge jug. jumping can save a ton of time and core tension >turn your foot outwards when heel hooking. place is on the hold, and turn your foot out. heel hooks are OP, use them often and on holds you think you can't. I did a v8 outside recently where I heel hooked a 15mm crimp, worked great >sometimes 1 foot is better than 2. don't limit yourself to always having 2 feet on the wall. proper flagging is almost always done with one foot on a hold and the other smearing on the wall. again, tons of noobs will always try to have 2 feet on the wall to their detriment
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Thanks for the tips. Found there's a climbing gym near me that's part of a community center type of place so it's probably not that expensive. Gonna give it a try soon even if it means getting mogged by little kids and turbodykes.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Fwiw if you're already IST you'll be mogging half of everybody there. Well specifically if it's during open climbing hours.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
How important is being light?
I'm 80kg at 180cm. I have a lot of muscles that are not so much needed for climbing like traps, glutes, thighs. Can I get to V10 without being skinny? I'd like to climb up a v10 cliff and be strong enough to win a wrestling match when I get to the top.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
The problem is that on the higher end its about having the finger strength to hold onto tiny holds and conservation of energy, turns more into a puzzle.
Basically after the first 3 levels, your muscular development will not help.
>t. Exclusively does early levels with big jugs as an upper body stretch and hang activity, gets dabbed on by 45kg circus acrobats
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
I’m lighter than you, but by climbing standards I’m big. And I’ve climbed a v10 when I was going at it at my climbing peak. Yea you can. But at a certain point being a skeleton with maxed finger strength and flexibility is all that matters
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Important enough that climbers trying to reach the "next level" frequently have eating disorders.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's pretty important but 80kg isn't too heavy, Matt Fultz climbed v16 at 165-170 lbs, theres some other crushers that climb very hard at your weight. That being said, I dropped from 80kg to 70kg and pretty much instantly climbed 2-3 grades harder and felt much better on the wall.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nice to know. Are these guys all 10% bodyfat? I'm probably over 15%, it's hard for me to be disciplined. In the past I relied on not buying junk food and counting calories but now I live with a gf who buys croissant and leaves them lying around.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
yeah the dudes that are climbing hard while heavy are lean. I dropped from 15% to 10ish% and it makes a world of difference
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>t. Fatass here
Seems doable with good technique and low bodyfat.
I currently climb v6, and am 95kg at 175cm. Climbing has been the only thing that finally motivated me to lose the weight cause you really feel it on the wall. Going from 100kg to 95kg has added 2 grades. Goal is 80kg, and I think I'll get to around v10 when I hit that. But going slow so I can build the muscle and improve my technique.
Who /moonboard/ here?
Just tried a kilterboard the other day for the first time. Felt like an absolute beast afterwards. Was awesome.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Maybe I'm missing something but V10 seems incredibly difficult. I find it hard to believe that a 95kg 175cm person could do a V6 unless they are shredded with great grip strength. My bouldering gym goes from 1 to 8 (no mention of what grade system this is). I can do 5s and most 6s and Im better than the majority of people there. I've never even seen someone do a 7. I've been fairly consistent for about a year now. I tried top rope climbing once and doing a 5c level route was really easy.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Gyms sometimes grade pretty soft, depends on where you are.
>t. Fatass here
Seems doable with good technique and low bodyfat.
I currently climb v6, and am 95kg at 175cm. Climbing has been the only thing that finally motivated me to lose the weight cause you really feel it on the wall. Going from 100kg to 95kg has added 2 grades. Goal is 80kg, and I think I'll get to around v10 when I hit that. But going slow so I can build the muscle and improve my technique.
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Just tried a kilterboard the other day for the first time. Felt like an absolute beast afterwards. Was awesome.
Nice, just remember boards are great for a fairly specific style of climbing, it's good to be well-rounded
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
I can do 10 pull ups but still struggle on easy boulders. The thing is that climbing looks super easy on camera, but the actual experience is different. Technique matters a lot and stuff that looks like you should just be able to brute force your way up can totally wienerblock you because the holds are nothing like pulling yourself up on a pull up bar. Even from a strength perspective, your limit won't be your lats but rather your fingers.
Glad I'm not the only one having this experience. Sick of morons who don't climb saying otherwise.
you left out the part where the smug buttholes gatekeep every little thing and have no social skills beyond the same 3 canned lines because ultimately the only reason any of them are there is to validation seek and not progress beyond the bare minimum to flex on non-climbers
i've been to 6 gyms in my city, and every single person is nice, friendly, and happy to have a chat about climbing. you might just be a giant butthole and nobody likes you
As many people have said, there's a lot of whites/asians and the typical "gym" culture isn't there. Comfy couches and generally good places to sit or lay down between climbs are a thing, and discussing your strategies is pretty normal.
If you start going, keep it that way and don't video yourself climbing with a tripod
I never understand why IST says you shouldn't join a climbing gym >it's full of soibois
You mean it's an easy mogging for any fitizen?
You mean it's full of lonely insecure women who are desperate for real men?
Hey climbgays I tried bouldering and now I've got pain in the outer side of my upper arm that didn't go away in nearly a week now. It's mostly weak and dull, but I can really feel it when I try to do a pullup on a ledge or an open hand pull up on a bar (so basically crimping). What's up with that? My inner forearms felt well more rekt, but that went away after two days.
>go to bouldering gym >changing rooms are covered in graffiti and stickers with extreme left wing political talking points >go out on the floor >bunch of fricking dyel nerd developers who mouth breathe and can't make eye contact >the """"chads"""" of the gym are just ripped 45kg hippies in stringers
I don't know why anyone is even slightly perturbed by these jessies
They just ruin the vibe for me. I quit my hema club cause it was full of lefties and women who after 2 years still can't throw a decent cut. They're just there so they can post on social media and say they "do" X or Y and pose with the props.
Take the political words out of it and the rest applies.
His issue is that its full of posers who aren't there to learn, and that hampers his own learning.
You reach a certain point where you realize that our current predicament is not simply a matter of differing political opinions but an epidemic of people who are simply not human anymore.
>I'm quitting this club, it's lame >WAIT! On the insistence of some fricking nobody on a Vanuatian kefir brewing webring, I will continue not enjoying myself out of sheer bloody mindedness
Climbing is pretty goated but you will be running into insufferable stickmen who think climbing anything at 110lbs body weight is impressive.
Also since you virgins secretly only care about their approval, women prefer climbers to gym goers. As in, if you lift 2/3/4/5 and climb well and attribute your size to climbing theyll be all over you, while if you say “I just go to the gym” they’ll just respond with an oh
Seeing Puccio climb in real life is nuts. She’s a very tiny woman but her strength to size ratio is off the charts. Pretty impressive. She’s like a very frickable monkey.
That's some bullshit. Lots of dudes on the taller side on both outdoors and indoors.
You wouldn't be a pro climber even if you were 5'6. If you like climbing do it. I used to play outdoors basketball at 5'7 with my friends because I liked it, I wasn't going to be a pro surely but I probably wouldn't be a pro even if I was 6'7
Bullshit. I'm 6'2" and exceled at climbing. Tall people have an advantage pretty much everywhere, unless you're a fatass.
It's a really fun activity, like solving problems with your body. I also met several of my girlfriends climbing, and found it to be a great first date activity. Weeds out people who can't face a challenge and overcome their fears.
The best climbing tip I ever got was this: reach behind your body. For example, hanging off your right hand, reach your left hand back for the next hold. Or vice versa for the opposite direction. Reaching 'forward', past your stable hand requires more muscle engagement and moves your center of mass away from the wall.
Are you stupid? The best climber in the world is one inch shorter than you.
One of the nice things about climbing is that being short or tall actually both benefit you in different ways, so height doesn't matter that much.
The downsides of being tall are:
- larger hands can make small holds difficult (but make larger holds easier/possible for you)
- if you're taller you're probably heavier and being heavy is the only real sin in climbing
Being heavy does have a benefit if your goal isn't pure climbing performance though, and that's that the heavier you are the more insane of a workout bouldering becomes. There is no workout you can do which will be half as effective for forearm growth as bouldering at a high bodyweight.
>The best climber in the world is one inch shorter than you.
Ondra has a pretty specific physique though lol. He'd be an inch shorter if he didn't have an inhumanly long neck.
>Entire thread filled with coping bloatlords saying they doon't want to rock climb because there are leftists who "ruin the vibe"
Absolute fricking disgrace. Are you all pansies? What the frick is going on. Who cares who's there, just go with your boys and have a fun time monkeymaxxing and developping finger and core strength.
It's 100% cope. They go once and get angry that their bloatstrength doesn't translate to climbing and then complain about it on IST. This might as well become an ongoing general thread at this point.
yep. I'm 220 lbs and have been climbing for a while, i love it. No one at a climbing gym cares that you aren't doing v10s, stop being a hypercompetitive b***h and just go have fun and get a great workout in that you can't get with free weights alone. These dudes just get upset when they realize that their grip and vertical pulling strength is a lot weaker than they thought.
>live in pretty left leaning area, Denver >according to IST climbing gym should be full of troons and soibois >literally not a single troons, maybe a few soibois sure but also lots of hot girls, chads and brads >not a single person talks about politics >a lot of the better climbers absolutely mog your average gym goer in terms of aesthetics and upper body strength >regularly see the more advanced clientele at local bouldering spots outdoors >everyone is chill
IST as always dreaming up a troony menace where there isn't one. Just go climb if you think it's fun
I think the problem with the average IST user is that he's so mindbroken into seeing everything through the lens of mogging or getting mogged that he'd feel like a total beta if he were to ask for beta.
It's exactly what you'd expect from people terminally online that only listen to what their favorite people that already agree with them tell them what to think.
I've done all of the benchmark v4, most of the v5 and some of the v6 and v7. Haven't been on it on a while though, my gym got the tension board 2 and it's the breasts, amazing board.
Climbing is great, it's fun, doesn't even feel like training, it's more like playing games, having fun, way less mental stress than lifting which can easily devolve into a 9-5 type deal
Its one of the very few spaces you'll find a majority of white people.
True, but they're often not the kind of white people you want to be around
Skinnyfit white people are the only white people I wanna be around.
He means theyre usually baizuos.
No, you don't understand. They're all left liberal wannabe hippies who eat söy and their smell is very söyish too somehow. They are annoying and snobbish
Are you in California or something?
Not exactly but close I guess? Europe
this is exactly right, my sister is into this crap and she's dragged me along with her a few times, plus I've seen the fricking gays she associates with. frick rock climbing, just literally go climb a rock outside by yourself if you want to do it. rock climbers are so gay they don't even climb trees lol, 'no holds'.
>frick rock climbing, literally just go climb on a rock
?
this homie thinks people don't climb outside
I believe the modern bouldering gym culture about being inclusive is primarily skewed to running it like a business and making money. The larger the customer base, more $$.
10 years ago, my city only had one bouldering gym and it was in a dingy and rundown state. Only 'hardcore' climbers went and it was a failing business, it was purely a training centre for the owner and he didn't care about making money.
A collective of people took over and they went gangbusters for a few years, opened up a few more branches (inclusivity and hippie vibe). But now they are so many options the market is saturated, it sounds like they're struggling now. The setting nowadays is also dogshit, it's all dyno moves which is influenced by the competition climbing scene. Who the frick boulders and climbs routes with dynos?
> old man climber
>not the kind of white people you want to be around
as opposed to the white people here?
>IST
>white
This only happens in cheap gyms or outside. If you go to an expensive gym you won't see those stinky hippies.
Actually I like White libtards. They are generous, helpful, and know good restaurants. Working class conservatives are mostly snakes who will try to screw you at the first opportunity. I my neighbors were all libtards with pic related, I would know that I live in an affluent, high-trust neighborhood
My experience is the opposite with people I know - they are utterly unhinged, care about shitty American politics even though they are not American, they are constantly broke and blame everybody but themselves, pretend to care about distant faraway social issues like global warming and systemic racism (which in practice mostly entails seething about billionaires), yet they treat everyone around them like shit. They constantly try to ferret out that you are a horrible evil racist neocon fascist and ask innocent sounding loaded questions to prove it.
They practice a form of 'egalitarianism' that entails hating everyone who's better than them and at the same time pretending they are smarter and more moral than anyone around them.
They also have a shitty victimhood complex.
I could go on but you get the idea.
That sounds like your made up twitter liberal.
I know multiple people like IRL this unfortunately.
Libtards aren't the ones with vaguely left leaning beliefs
No you don't.
I've never met anyone like this IRL. Most people are well adjusted enough to not exhaust themselves with politik obsessions
>Even though they are not american
oh so your opinion on this doesn't fricking matter then, foreigner.
Nor are over 50% of people currently residing in your country, has-been
Anon if I wanted your opinion I would have already given it to you. Blow it out your ass lmao
From my experience they are good people to live around, they will volunteer, keep the community clean, polite. But eventually their Black person-loving politics will erode the community and then they will wipe their hands, and move to another well-off community, rinse and repeat.
sad bait
do better
I pay extra to live in a very white town where every other house has this sign.
you're goddamn right
t. moved from le based and conservative south to libtard massachusetts (and the most left-lib "science is real" part of the whole state)
unironically this met some "climbers" in college there were such homosexuals and b***hes. Extreme cuck energy from them
> t. insecure social outcast upset about getting mogged by natty liberals and unwilling to work hard to be better
He's right climbers are homosexual onions boys.
They stopped just before the finish line. Be an Alpinist do something cool
Alpinism is moronic. I don't want to freeze my ass off in some shithole, I want to climb on rocks.
You mean you want to climb on wieners you homo
Why not both? You drive to the mountains, set up a stealth campsite near a stream, then you make some trips up mountains. If you can talk a friend into it, you can go on glaciers, you just need to practice glacier escape techniques. There is certainly a huge amount of walking but you don't freeze your ass off. Anything in the alps is doable as a single day trip from a reasonable altitude.
every hobby involving nature/outdoors is like 90% white
>t. grass toucher
It's the type of white people who hate white people though
She can climb my rock, if you guys can read between the lines on this one.
Well, I mean, maybe not her exactly. One with less defined abs, a little more fat would be idea. Less steroid use.
If you’re still in this thread, could you possibly elaborate a bit more on the first part of your post?
I don’t really follow, mind being a bit more blunt?
What do you mean? Do you have a rock in your backyard to climb to?
id nut on her six pack and stick it back in if you know what i meAN
>He doesn't like cum gutters
It's fun
there are a few chinamen but not a majority. it’s fun, give it a try, especially if your only exercise is lifting.
Will I look like her as a natty?
maybe start real climbing? like the outdoor one?
>OP thread
>should i start wiener climbing ?
Full of programmers and sales guys. If you don’t talk to any of these people, it’s great. Just pretend not to understand english if they try to approach you; That’s what I usually do.
>Skinnyfit white people are the only white people I wanna be around
Somebody PLEASE make a jack of this guy.
Nobody liked my jak 🙁
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I don't get IST's obsession with rambling about climbing gyms being full of flabby söymen. The climbing gym I go to usually has a group of ripped zoomers shooting the shit and challenging each other to flash stuff, a couple toned chicks working on projects, some 30-something dude who climbs super hard and some dad who's there with his kids.
That just means you are the bugman of the gym.
Your own experiences aren’t relevant to the majority, that’s what they’re saying.
>3 different climbing gyms in my city
>very few fat people
>almost every girl is hot and fit
>everyone is happy to talk to anyone climbing near them
>everyone cheers on everyone else climbing near them when they're working hard on anything
This has been my experience at each gym.
>very few fat people
how are there fat people at all?
They're the people struggling on V1's and V2's
Is the bar that low? I can deadhang for 1+ minute but my one-arm game is non-existant. Pullups RM is 6 from deadhang but the last 2 look gnarly.
What's the minimum strength level to bruteforce a v2 with no previous experience? Don't wanna spend 80 bux to spend an hour at a glorified jungle gym.
Bouldering requires a lot of footwork to be good. You should be able to do every V1 and some V2's with whatever strength you've got. My advice would be to climb every V0 then every V1 then start on V2's.
>Bouldering requires a lot of footwork to be good.
Well frick. I have the foot coordination of a peg-legged Cambodian lot lizard with cerebral palsy. Time to stop fricking around with sissies and start working on my pistol squat.
It's really not too bad at all at lower grades. You can get up to v4's with minimal footwork improvement
a couple tips from a v10ish climber:
>use your toes, don't just slap your whole foot on a hold. you can pivot much better on your toes and you can use much smaller footholds
>when you need to keep your foot on when going for a dynamic move or any move where you really need to keep your feet on, scrunch up your toes really hard. dont just put your foot on the hold, flex your foot so your toes curl
>experiment with high feet, I see a lot of noobs always keeping their feet as low as possible. this sucks on overhanging terrain as your body will form a much longer lever than if you were to have your feet high. putting a foot on one of the holds your hand is currently on is a thing, its called hand foot matching. experiment
>dont be afraid to cut feet if the movement calls for it. times to cut: very dynamic move to good hold(s), when the feet are very awkward or out of position to get any use out of them. I see a lot of people doing all kinds of fancy shit just to get to a huge jug. jumping can save a ton of time and core tension
>turn your foot outwards when heel hooking. place is on the hold, and turn your foot out. heel hooks are OP, use them often and on holds you think you can't. I did a v8 outside recently where I heel hooked a 15mm crimp, worked great
>sometimes 1 foot is better than 2. don't limit yourself to always having 2 feet on the wall. proper flagging is almost always done with one foot on a hold and the other smearing on the wall. again, tons of noobs will always try to have 2 feet on the wall to their detriment
Thanks for the tips. Found there's a climbing gym near me that's part of a community center type of place so it's probably not that expensive. Gonna give it a try soon even if it means getting mogged by little kids and turbodykes.
Fwiw if you're already IST you'll be mogging half of everybody there. Well specifically if it's during open climbing hours.
How important is being light?
I'm 80kg at 180cm. I have a lot of muscles that are not so much needed for climbing like traps, glutes, thighs. Can I get to V10 without being skinny? I'd like to climb up a v10 cliff and be strong enough to win a wrestling match when I get to the top.
The problem is that on the higher end its about having the finger strength to hold onto tiny holds and conservation of energy, turns more into a puzzle.
Basically after the first 3 levels, your muscular development will not help.
>t. Exclusively does early levels with big jugs as an upper body stretch and hang activity, gets dabbed on by 45kg circus acrobats
I’m lighter than you, but by climbing standards I’m big. And I’ve climbed a v10 when I was going at it at my climbing peak. Yea you can. But at a certain point being a skeleton with maxed finger strength and flexibility is all that matters
Important enough that climbers trying to reach the "next level" frequently have eating disorders.
It's pretty important but 80kg isn't too heavy, Matt Fultz climbed v16 at 165-170 lbs, theres some other crushers that climb very hard at your weight. That being said, I dropped from 80kg to 70kg and pretty much instantly climbed 2-3 grades harder and felt much better on the wall.
Nice to know. Are these guys all 10% bodyfat? I'm probably over 15%, it's hard for me to be disciplined. In the past I relied on not buying junk food and counting calories but now I live with a gf who buys croissant and leaves them lying around.
yeah the dudes that are climbing hard while heavy are lean. I dropped from 15% to 10ish% and it makes a world of difference
>t. Fatass here
Seems doable with good technique and low bodyfat.
I currently climb v6, and am 95kg at 175cm. Climbing has been the only thing that finally motivated me to lose the weight cause you really feel it on the wall. Going from 100kg to 95kg has added 2 grades. Goal is 80kg, and I think I'll get to around v10 when I hit that. But going slow so I can build the muscle and improve my technique.
Just tried a kilterboard the other day for the first time. Felt like an absolute beast afterwards. Was awesome.
Maybe I'm missing something but V10 seems incredibly difficult. I find it hard to believe that a 95kg 175cm person could do a V6 unless they are shredded with great grip strength. My bouldering gym goes from 1 to 8 (no mention of what grade system this is). I can do 5s and most 6s and Im better than the majority of people there. I've never even seen someone do a 7. I've been fairly consistent for about a year now. I tried top rope climbing once and doing a 5c level route was really easy.
Gyms sometimes grade pretty soft, depends on where you are.
Nice, just remember boards are great for a fairly specific style of climbing, it's good to be well-rounded
I can do 10 pull ups but still struggle on easy boulders. The thing is that climbing looks super easy on camera, but the actual experience is different. Technique matters a lot and stuff that looks like you should just be able to brute force your way up can totally wienerblock you because the holds are nothing like pulling yourself up on a pull up bar. Even from a strength perspective, your limit won't be your lats but rather your fingers.
Glad I'm not the only one having this experience. Sick of morons who don't climb saying otherwise.
you left out the part where the smug buttholes gatekeep every little thing and have no social skills beyond the same 3 canned lines because ultimately the only reason any of them are there is to validation seek and not progress beyond the bare minimum to flex on non-climbers
i've been to 6 gyms in my city, and every single person is nice, friendly, and happy to have a chat about climbing. you might just be a giant butthole and nobody likes you
You don't even have personal experience, you don't have friends and you learn about world from anonymous mongolian pornocartoon forum
>no lezzers
Is it even a climbing gym without lesbians? I tried once but I don't wanna ACK myself so I don't climb btw
> if theres no weird guy, youre the weird guy
>a couple toned chicks working on projects
What is that suppose to mean?
They bust out laptops and create powerpoints in the middle of the gym
A project is a climb that is above one's level and requires many attempts to 'send'. (Complete without falling or weighting the rope)
Sounds comfy
they feel threatened because a "dyel" is mogging them.
As many people have said, there's a lot of whites/asians and the typical "gym" culture isn't there. Comfy couches and generally good places to sit or lay down between climbs are a thing, and discussing your strategies is pretty normal.
If you start going, keep it that way and don't video yourself climbing with a tripod
I never understand why IST says you shouldn't join a climbing gym
>it's full of soibois
You mean it's an easy mogging for any fitizen?
You mean it's full of lonely insecure women who are desperate for real men?
They might be gays and they will seethe at you tackling shit that took them months to master day 1, but they still climbmog you.
Hey climbgays I tried bouldering and now I've got pain in the outer side of my upper arm that didn't go away in nearly a week now. It's mostly weak and dull, but I can really feel it when I try to do a pullup on a ledge or an open hand pull up on a bar (so basically crimping). What's up with that? My inner forearms felt well more rekt, but that went away after two days.
>go to bouldering gym
>changing rooms are covered in graffiti and stickers with extreme left wing political talking points
>go out on the floor
>bunch of fricking dyel nerd developers who mouth breathe and can't make eye contact
>the """"chads"""" of the gym are just ripped 45kg hippies in stringers
I don't know why anyone is even slightly perturbed by these jessies
accurate af
Draw a few windmills of friendship in the bathrooms
Bonus points: draw the Hindu version so you can make anonymous accusations of anti Asian hate crimes when they're removed
Creative
They just ruin the vibe for me. I quit my hema club cause it was full of lefties and women who after 2 years still can't throw a decent cut. They're just there so they can post on social media and say they "do" X or Y and pose with the props.
>I quit my hema club cause it was full of lefties
The frick happened to fit? Bunch of fragile, try-hard, wannabe-macho posers now. Put your stupid political fee fees aside and do what you came to do.
Take the political words out of it and the rest applies.
His issue is that its full of posers who aren't there to learn, and that hampers his own learning.
Your list of insults makes you sound short
You reach a certain point where you realize that our current predicament is not simply a matter of differing political opinions but an epidemic of people who are simply not human anymore.
>I'm quitting this club, it's lame
>WAIT! On the insistence of some fricking nobody on a Vanuatian kefir brewing webring, I will continue not enjoying myself out of sheer bloody mindedness
It's not like it was a good workout either, I just spend that time at the gym now for much more noticable gains
Climbing is pretty goated but you will be running into insufferable stickmen who think climbing anything at 110lbs body weight is impressive.
Also since you virgins secretly only care about their approval, women prefer climbers to gym goers. As in, if you lift 2/3/4/5 and climb well and attribute your size to climbing theyll be all over you, while if you say “I just go to the gym” they’ll just respond with an oh
Seeing Puccio climb in real life is nuts. She’s a very tiny woman but her strength to size ratio is off the charts. Pretty impressive. She’s like a very frickable monkey.
Climbing is not really doable if you're like me an 6'3'', it's like gymnastics, or parkour, not a thing for tall people
don't you have greater reach? I'm sure the ideal climber would be a tall lanky guy
That's some bullshit. Lots of dudes on the taller side on both outdoors and indoors.
You wouldn't be a pro climber even if you were 5'6. If you like climbing do it. I used to play outdoors basketball at 5'7 with my friends because I liked it, I wasn't going to be a pro surely but I probably wouldn't be a pro even if I was 6'7
Bullshit. I'm 6'2" and exceled at climbing. Tall people have an advantage pretty much everywhere, unless you're a fatass.
It's a really fun activity, like solving problems with your body. I also met several of my girlfriends climbing, and found it to be a great first date activity. Weeds out people who can't face a challenge and overcome their fears.
The best climbing tip I ever got was this: reach behind your body. For example, hanging off your right hand, reach your left hand back for the next hold. Or vice versa for the opposite direction. Reaching 'forward', past your stable hand requires more muscle engagement and moves your center of mass away from the wall.
Are you stupid? The best climber in the world is one inch shorter than you.
One of the nice things about climbing is that being short or tall actually both benefit you in different ways, so height doesn't matter that much.
The downsides of being tall are:
- larger hands can make small holds difficult (but make larger holds easier/possible for you)
- if you're taller you're probably heavier and being heavy is the only real sin in climbing
Being heavy does have a benefit if your goal isn't pure climbing performance though, and that's that the heavier you are the more insane of a workout bouldering becomes. There is no workout you can do which will be half as effective for forearm growth as bouldering at a high bodyweight.
>The best climber in the world is one inch shorter than you.
Ondra has a pretty specific physique though lol. He'd be an inch shorter if he didn't have an inhumanly long neck.
This kind of climbing is pure bullshit. Any woman you meet there will have a disproportionate inelegant physique like a swimmer. Do not recommend
how do I get better I got up to like 6b/6c pretty quick but I'm stuck there for a long time now.
Hangboard, weighted pull ups, system board, route climb for endurance, technique drills, 4x4s
Time to train seriously if you want to be a v6 chad
>Entire thread filled with coping bloatlords saying they doon't want to rock climb because there are leftists who "ruin the vibe"
Absolute fricking disgrace. Are you all pansies? What the frick is going on. Who cares who's there, just go with your boys and have a fun time monkeymaxxing and developping finger and core strength.
It's 100% cope. They go once and get angry that their bloatstrength doesn't translate to climbing and then complain about it on IST. This might as well become an ongoing general thread at this point.
yep. I'm 220 lbs and have been climbing for a while, i love it. No one at a climbing gym cares that you aren't doing v10s, stop being a hypercompetitive b***h and just go have fun and get a great workout in that you can't get with free weights alone. These dudes just get upset when they realize that their grip and vertical pulling strength is a lot weaker than they thought.
I wanna lick those kazhar abs
>live in pretty left leaning area, Denver
>according to IST climbing gym should be full of troons and soibois
>literally not a single troons, maybe a few soibois sure but also lots of hot girls, chads and brads
>not a single person talks about politics
>a lot of the better climbers absolutely mog your average gym goer in terms of aesthetics and upper body strength
>regularly see the more advanced clientele at local bouldering spots outdoors
>everyone is chill
IST as always dreaming up a troony menace where there isn't one. Just go climb if you think it's fun
I think the problem with the average IST user is that he's so mindbroken into seeing everything through the lens of mogging or getting mogged that he'd feel like a total beta if he were to ask for beta.
It's exactly what you'd expect from people terminally online that only listen to what their favorite people that already agree with them tell them what to think.
The real redpill is that anything fit hates is actually good for you, being outdoors, climbing, bjj, hanging out with ''normies''
>bjj
If I do a combat sport, it's going to be boxing. I'm not going to sniff some dudes crotch
Straight sex as well
For me it's crimps.
Who /moonboard/ here?
I've done all of the benchmark v4, most of the v5 and some of the v6 and v7. Haven't been on it on a while though, my gym got the tension board 2 and it's the breasts, amazing board.
this is a fat people hate thread where the fat people are just posting their cope
Climbing is great, it's fun, doesn't even feel like training, it's more like playing games, having fun, way less mental stress than lifting which can easily devolve into a 9-5 type deal
you know those people who are totally #random #nolimits, they go rock climbing