Not rock climbing

Dude what? Momoa climbs v7 as a hobbyist. That's pretty good especially for his size

Youre salty af

rock climbing seems cool but how comee it feels like everyone who does it is gay

Go with your friends. I do with mine and it’s loads of fun. Cunts like OP are salty they have no friends to climb with

join a bouldering gym. all you need is shoes and a chalk bucket

weight 245
can climb 5.9 / V3
no body pic but I'm pretty fat still
hoping to get a lean efficient body like the guys who coach climbing teams here

just keep at it. you're gonna make it!

It's a cope hobby for lanklets with disproportionate limb length.

this is not necessarily good advice. if you're a social person with a decent friend group, climbing with friends is nice.

if you have social retardation and don't enjoy being around humans, you should boulder instead of roped climbing. climb by yourself, focus on the rock, go when it's not busy.

But I go bouldering at least twice a week.

rock climbing is for light men

I was the same as you mate. Took a month or two of climbing regularly to build up my endurance.
If you want to burn yourself out and feel super pumped don't take any rest and do problems that for you are easy to moderate in difficulty.
Otherwise take plenty of rest between attempts. You'll get there in time.

>my fucking hands

All of this. Say goodbye to callouses and hello to ludicrous exfoliation.

Good advice. Sometimes I feel social and it's good for climbing or bouldering in groups. But if you don't want to talk to people, you can boulder. Take headphones and focus on training hard and climbing hard.

Not op but
>5'10" 180
>V6/ at most 5.11
>at least 1/2/3/4

You don't, they are kind if part of it. The nice thing is that you do not have to interact with them. Think of it as a chance to mog them. Most of them cannot into .5/1/2/3

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Climbing is a terrible way of building muscle. Notice how everybody in the climbing gym is skinny as fuck.

Another fad """sport""", that will hopefully go away soon and make room for actual physical activity.

It's all about keeping the weight low, true.

But the forearms gains are real.

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I hope you are right user. It's litterally the new crossfit for skinny out of shape people.

What do you consider "making it" in rock climbing?

Is 5.14 and V11 on multiple rock type something to aspire to?
I know grades are quite vain, I see them more as a testament of ability rather than a goal in itself.

>bodybuilding seems cool but how come it feels like everyone who does it is gay

for manlets as well, good strength to weight ratio.

>What do you consider "making it" in rock climbing?
Not falling off the rock.

I've been climbing since August 2018, September much more seriously. Lost my main partner is now my ex so I mostly just boulder.

>5' 11", 190lbs
>1/1.5/3/4
>v6, 5.11b

I want to climb up a tall mountain make my way to a cliff and take a shit over the edge. Once that is done I have no further interest in climbing

Nobody should be bragging about climbing v3s

Surely bouldering is more convenient but in your opinion what do you prefer?

finally, a sport for gay manlets

haha XD

it's a hard call honestly.

I'd have to say I really do prefer to climb on lead. It's much more fun and having a climbing partner pushing to push to be better while he/she pushes you to be better is healthy as fuck. Not to mention I want to start making climbing trips, but I'm not at the level to take entire cross country trips to seek out famous boulders. Famous sport and trad climbs on the other hand are worth the trip in my opinion.

I can't deny that primarily boulder has made me a much better climber because I've gotten pretty strong, and the emphasis on footwork is so prevalent when you start to break into v4/v5 you watch your feet more often. In my gym anyway, precise footwork on the walls doesn't really begin to make or break you into 5.10+ and 5.11a.

Was your ex a bisexual sjw? 99% of the climbing chicks I've encountered, while athletic and in good shape, are absolutely insufferable once they open their mouths.

The only climbing girls that aren't completely fucked in the head are Asians

a pair of shoes (you can also go barefoot but most gyms don't allow it), chalk is usually provided by the gym (you can also clomb without chalking like a real man)

climb without chalking like a real man....except literally every professional climber uses chalk lol

lmao no, she wasn't. but I do know the type you're describing and I haven been climbing with a girl kinda recently who fits that bill, but she kinda ghosted me so..

220lbs
>was close to sending my first outdoor v6 last weekend at pic related but usually climb v5

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Chalk, shoes. And also a harness if you want to top rope in a gym. They already have ropes

tell that to magnus midtbo

>6'0, 205lbs
>2/3/3.5/5.3
>V5-V6

fuck rope climbing

btw - for all of you guys who actually care about climbing /out/ usually has a climbing general. most often times it's a pretty solid thread although kind of slow.

everybody at my gym is super chill and helpful i've never had somebody act smug towards me there

Then you don't climb with Asians and gays

I dunno man there are Asians there maybe its a geographical thing

mostly because at extreme grades, conditions are what will decide if a send happens or not. So ensuring your tips are not moist is necessary.

But I do OP.
>finally sent my first 5.12 indoors
>climb 5.10/11 outdoors
>IMMEDIATELY after sending the 5.12 indoors my finger starts hurting
>can't climb with my ring/pinky fingers on my dominant hand, barely can use my middle finger
Fucking sucks it's my only hobby. I can't even lift either. I feel like life just took a giant shit on me until this heals.
I wanted to be happy about the 5.12 but this just sucks

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eh I think telling people to climb without chalk because it's somehow more manly is just irresponsible but whatever

have you gone to the doctor?

not irresponsible, just stupid

Skin is also very personal, some people have softer skin than others and sweat less/more.

I don't think you need chalk as a beginner climbing on massive gym jugs.

did you hear the dreaded "pop" ?
Are some knuckes swollen?

what causes pain? Is there some trigger point? Can you pinch the sides of your fingers? torque it a little bit?
Does it hurt more when crimping, can you still hold 3 finger-drag?

a GP will be useless, find a physio / sport specialist.

>going to the doctor
>in clapistan
Sure, if he wants to fork out 5000 bucks for some painkillers and then descend into a life of opioid addiction.

Might as well save the 5000 and go straight to the local dealer.

haha wow i don't even know how to respond to that

>not exclusively bouldering

Only autists and closet suicidal actually enjoy rope climbing. The knuckle buster needs a mental therapist not a physical one

i think anybody that is serious about climbing should be using chalk. if they are just trying it out to see if they like it sure I agree with you.

She did you a favor. The medium of climbing is actually in favor of gender equality due to the technique and flexibility required. Climber girls get deluded by this shit and thinks it's transfers over into other physical activity. They're typically brought back to reality when a man with a 500 deadlift choke fucks them and spits in their anus.

Doesn't help that most male climbers thee chicks are surrounded by are nerdy

You're far more likely to die from opioid addiction than getting murdered by a nigger.

Protip: if it hurts and the doctor can't identify it, they just prescribe you powerful painkillers. Joint pain, back pain, any kind of general pain that a doctor can't identify and you just wasted a ton of money on something a drug deal could've "prescribed" heroin for.

Hell, heroin would probably be safer too.

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>he is too afraid to climb above a bolt and run it out

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>taking any sort of life advice from an acro yoga purple haired loser

You like getting tied up by other men don't you faggot?

who hurt you bro?

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alright bud thanks for the insight

You gays did with your bullshit. You played lefties like a fiddle with your "were cute and cuddly innocent LGBT" crap.

As soon as you feel comfortable you do all sorts of weird shit like wear fishnets, dye your armpit hair purple and do gay PDA in the middle of the climbing gym. I can't work on any project without any of you faggots staring at my ass. Or some weird trans dude in a sports bra and a dick bulge walking around the gym barefoot like he owns the place.

I can't exercise or climb in peace without you degenerates disgusting me.

lol what kind of fucked up place do you climb at? Just go outside instead of the safe-space comfy soft gym

I can do the easier climbing stuff, but just the thought of climbing causes my palms to start sweating really bad. Wat do?

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time and experience is really the best way to overcome nerves like that man

Hear, hear.

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Nah it's starting to get better on it's own after 2 weeks. I can hang from pullup bar, even do pullups with very little pain. Just been taking it extra easy so it doesn't last longer than it needs. But that means avoiding the gym too because any hard gripping (for example, around a barbell) would be a problem even.
No pop so that's why I'm thinking it was only a small tear or something. It happened after I finished my project, tried a boulder route that was a new fairly pinchy v5 and once I failed I went to site down and noticed it was hurting. No sharp pain when falling or anything, it just came after.
Originally it caused pain to grip anything, hang from jugs even, but no swelling or pain from pressing the sides of the finger around pulley areas. None of that stuff hurts luckily so it's probably a short term injury I just hate being out for a few weeks even. The student clinic at my uni has physios if you get recommended but I'm already gonna go for a back injury (because I'm stupid and hurt myself squatting too) so I need to prioritize.

I just really hate injuries right now

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Climbing gym in a major liberal US city. It's fucking death

It is filled to the brim with purple haired homokin autists and ex-swimmer mutant feminists with disgusting faces and massive shoulders. Weird pre-op trans people wearing revealing clothing is fucking gross. Or some white girl in neon spandex, French braids and a basic tattoo giggling on a V1

The only people I see who send harder than V9 regularly are loaded asians who don't have jobs and hang around the climbing gym 24/7.

Its the only good place for climbing and lifting but if I could swap for a less SJW gym I'd be out in an instant. This gym made me despise liberals and I'd never go anywhere near Jow Forums

Then I'd suggest taking it easy into the rehab : rest a few days then start easy movements with your fingers, pressing a ball, rice bucket kind of thing, doesn't matter.
If you are used to hangboarding you can also try lightly to use it as a rehab tool.

Good luck user, it sounds like something minor that will slowly go away over the next few weeks.

>Hates liberals
>Hates Pol
Absolutely based

Anything else than free climbing is faggit pretentious tier.
>hall climb fags will cope

sounds like a nightmare.

I climb in a major liberal euro city and the only trans person in my gym is a teenager girl from the gym's team, she's becoming a guy and you couldn't even tell she's trans. Very low-key and nothing to hate about it, legit wants to be a normal boy and not some freak show-tier creature.

Of course this person can't do competition anymore because of the test treatment, legit roids lol.

are you attempting to interchange free climbing for free soloing?

can’t tell if you’re trolling or just retarded

Is climbing enough for a cardio workout?

Anything less than lead climbing is shittier. Imagine being proud of v9 on a plastic wall. Little adolescent girls can do it. I watched an 8 year old flash 5.11+ on plastic. Its hard but its not dangerous or particularly cool or a better way to strength train than weightlifting.

Some run out chossy trad is god tier

>v7

V4 at my gym.

It's mostly anaerobic effort with some aerobic components (forearm), unless you do laps on the autobelay on super easy stuff it's not cardio.

I'm a boulder bro and it's so comfy. Just lay on your pad between burns and always give 105% effort no matter what.

Going to font this weekend and pretty psyched, some friend wants to get a feel on some of the big four.

But I agree, some hard lead sport and even more trad require more work and is more satisfying in the end. (also more prone to burnout if you overshoot)

Indoor climbing is fake and pozzedpilled. Outdoor climbing isn't possible for me I don't live in the right area and don't want to pay for training and other weird shit.

>V4

V1 in my backyard

I want to get into climbing but no friends to belay me :(

Check if your gym has a belay buddy meetup

rockclimber is truly the GOAT physique for a woman. Prove me wrong.

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bouldering is FUN and stops me from the temptation of getting fat

10/10 would get tendinitis in both my elbow again

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No.

Precisely why men who rock climb as their "exercise" and not for fun look like women.

Hello, Michael

Nope, they have nubby rough hands. Would not date again.

If it gives me a back like this then I'm all for it

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Why would I would everyone thinking Im a homosexual?

Looks like a mob from resident evil

I want to puke everytime somebody compares climbing to lifting. You would have to be an actual idiot to climb for gains instead of the fun / getting better at climbing / getting better weight:strength ratio.

It's like telling somebody who plays golf or does mountain biking that they do it for the wrong reasons just because they don't end up looking buffed..

Jow Forums is too insecure for things like climbing

I mean if you're climbing 5.14s you're among the best in the world so I guess you can call that making it

The Dawn Wall was free climbed only in 2015 and it's basically a series of 5.13s and 5.14s for 2500+ feet

All the rock climbers I see are manlets. Give me some lanklet motivation.