Comments | dilletante: climbing the walls

dilletante

climbing the walls

Nov 13, 2008 12:22

last weekend, moominmolly and i took advantage of dancingwolfgrrl's kind offer to spend a weekend out of town alone together to celebrate our anniversary. we wound up getting a hotel room with a hot tub :) in manchester, and spent a good chunk of saturday at a climbing gym there in the former-factories-converted-to-loft-offices district ( Read more... )

silks, climbing

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cloeigrrl November 13 2008, 23:56:07 UTC

you two inspire me

yay climbing! whynotkay November 14 2008, 02:17:10 UTC

Rock climbing totally is technique. Often (warning, giant generalizations ahead), women learn technique faster than men, because they don't have the strength to muscle their way past things. Men start out better, but tire quickly (because they're using their muscles).

I definitely know exceptions to the above, especially for super athletic women, and both of you should have awesome balance from everything else you do, so you may be able to translate that in some exciting way.

The chinup "ladder" that you mention is called a fingerboard. Careful with them - many many people blow out finger tendons playing on them, especially if they haven't warmed up. You don't need to be able to do them (or, for that matter pullups of any kind), as long as you have technique, until you're climbing at quite a high level.

Re: yay climbing! dilletante November 14 2008, 21:41:50 UTC

i'd certainly heard the generalization about men vs women. i was just amused to find it was truer than i'd expected!

a variant of it seems to be true on silks, actually: people who don't have the strength to muscle through moves learn the fine points of technique much earlier. but on silks it's easier to be at a strength point where you have to learn a lot of technique before being able to do anything, so there's a lot of work up front where it's not yet fun; whereas conversely, having the strength to muscle through for a while gives you a lot more time on the fabric, initially, which helps with learning technique. that problem, or paradox, doesn't seem to happen so much with climbing-- it seemed like "being able to do anything at all" didn't take as much strength as it does on silks ( ... )

Re: yay climbing! whynotkay November 14 2008, 23:46:02 UTC

I need to try silks again! Last time (my only time) was at burning man, a couple of years back, and let's just say that I wasn't 100% physically and mentally there.