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Anonymous09/30/25, 17:58No.243692/cg/ - Climbing General
~~Hangboarding Edition~~
>Where do I start?
People typically start in the gym and branch off outdoors and find their niche, be it bouldering, trad, sport or a mixture of the above. Some never leave the gym at all. Ultimately it doesn't matter - just get started and enjoy yourself.
>How fit do I have to be to start? Do I have to be able to do x amount of pull-ups?
Being light, strong and flexible helps at the higher levels but climbing is open to almost anyone and is fairly intuitive to most. Even if your body is feeble and weak now, you will develop strength over time by virtue of just climbing. Climbing is a holistic sport and success often hinges upon many factors, not just strength and power, but having these qualities definitely helps when you breach into the higher grades.
>What shoes do I buy?
If you're starting out in the gym, don't worry too much: get some snug shoes without dead space that don't cause you lasting pain. Some people (such as the famed shoe designer Heinz Mariacher) recommend wearing soft shoes when you're starting out -- this makes sense since your footwork will probably suck and the increased feedback will pay dividends over time. You really don't need fancy expensive shoes when you're starting out, but certain shoe properties help send harder problems (e.g. stiff shoes for standing on tiny granite edges or soft shoes for sandstone/gritstone smears).
Here are some useful resources for sizing:
>https://sizesquirrel.com/
>https://rockrun.com/blogs/the-flash-rock-run-blog/rock-climbing-shoe-sizing-guide
>Do I need Magdust/Rugne Gear?
No, most chalk you find will be good. Mammut is older, cheaper, and as reliable as they come.
>Do I need to start hangboarding?
Hangboarding is a tool used to improve climbing, but you likely won't *need* it until you've climbed for 2-3 years. Even that's generous. Just climb.
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Anon09/30/25, 18:49No.243699
As a gym climber who now goes outdoors once a month, how can I excel at outdoor climbs? Pumping out is less of an issue for me than finger strength. Devils lake is kicking my ass right now, but in a good way. I liked breaking the beta at certain times, but some routes just seem to demand pulling your entire bw on nickel crimps
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Anon10/01/25, 21:51No.243878
I live in Russia and have been rock climbing for four years now (for the last year, I've been going to the gym once a week. I know it's not enough, but I devote as much time as I have). I weigh only 65 kg and am 180 cm tall, but I can easily climb 6B+ and, with difficulty, 7A. So, I agree with the author: the entry barrier to this sport is very low (unless you're wheelchair-bound, of course).I'm using a translator, so errors are possible :)
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Anon10/02/25, 18:54No.243940
Picture this. There's this climb you really want to do. And you and your friends start it at the same time. You can barely do the first move, it takes everything you have, but then your friends get the entire climb first. So you relax, assume you'll get it next session. But then you don't. Then you can only get another sequence. Then repeat this for months.Wouldn't you be frustrated? When you can never guarantee a send? When it gets taken off the wall and replaced by another boulder before you had time to do half of it? Don't you think that's so frustrating? Then you tell me not to compare, but then literally everyone I climb with is able to do it effortlessly. And when I say that, No, I don't think they aren't trying. But they aren't trying as hard as ME. I WANT it. I give it my all. I climb until I'm physically unable to. ANd no matter how much I want it, or put effort into it, it gets me little progress. But literally nobody else seems to have this issue, or even care about it at all. Then, whenever I ask someone for advice, they give me some random vapid explanation and expect it to work the first time.Regardless of whether or not you experienced this, don't you think that this would make someone frustrated?
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Anon10/02/25, 19:43No.243943
tfw crushed my pinky while failing to properly rerack a 60lb dumbbell and now it hurts to use it while climbing
time to 3 finger drag everything I guess
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Anon10/03/25, 15:10No.243986
>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct/02/balin-miller-climber-death-el-capitan
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Anon10/05/25, 10:46No.244166
I started climbing about 2-3 months ago. To start off, I got LS Tarantulas as advised. Flat, snug, but not super tight.
I am currently at about V3-4. I think, I have a limited frame of reference.
I don't wanna blame my shoes but it does seem like it sucks at smearing and it has stretched out too much despite sizing from my street size.Is it normal for me to want to get newer shoes now or am I premature in wanting to upgrade. I was hoping my first shoe would last me my first year of climbing. I was thinking of getting the scarpa vapor v.
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Anon10/06/25, 22:14No.244315
If your foot fits it well, the mad rock drone series of shoes are a good step up from beginner shoes and are pretty affordable, around $130 new. They have the famous cheater heel and it really works.
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Anon10/07/25, 04:08No.244338
It might be because of my shitty schedule change but over these last few weeks I went from climbing a few V6's in my gym to barely being able to do some V4's. Time to promptly kill myself.
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Anon10/08/25, 23:59No.244529
I'm taking a deload after weeks of high intensity and high volume. All I'm noticing is that each day, I'm more sore than the last, the fuck is happening. 4 days in and it's hard to get out of bed
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Anon10/09/25, 14:59No.244553
>find shoe with perfect toebox... heel is fucked
>find shoe with nice fitting heel... toebox is too small
This is so frustrating
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Anon10/13/25, 17:59No.244821
I shifted my reality to focus on raw improvement. I haven't skipped a climbing session in two months now, and my gains are steadily coming. Better body tension, better footwork, I'm able to execute old projects with flow and effortlessness. I'd say the biggest boon to my climbing has just been the consistency. Back in April-June, I took a really lax approach, going 1-2 a week but going hard, and I think my body really needed the volume because while there was improvement, it felt milder. Instead of going 7-8 times a month, I'm now going 10-11, this 40% increase in time on the wall is significant.
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Anon10/15/25, 11:10No.244975
For moonboard 'no kickboard' problems, are you allowed to smear the kickboard as long as you dont use the foot chips?
I was trying Monooqlo Tokyo 7b on the 2024 set, and I can skip the toe hook and move straight to the first hold by smearing the kickboard which made me think it wasnt allowed. But in all the send videos with the toe hook they are also smearing the kickboard with their other foot so im a little unclear on the rules.
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Anon10/15/25, 16:33No.245020
>tfw v4 subhuman
It's so fucking over for me.
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Anon10/15/25, 21:32No.245181
Behold, my home wall. 45 degrees, 12 feet of diagonal, 16 feet wide.
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Anon10/20/25, 14:15No.245535
50 or 55 degrees on the Kilterboard?
60 feels too much like roof climbing already while 45 is too soft
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Anon10/21/25, 09:32No.245648
got my first 1-5-8 yesterday
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Anon10/23/25, 09:13No.245777
just found out the ifsc event is being held in Fukuoka japan this weekend where I happen to be. bought tix for the boulder finals on saturday. Mao is going to be there and is my climbing waifu but I can't be a weird white monkey trying to talk to her lol. should I bring a sign with me that says /xs/ or something else autistic?
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Anon10/24/25, 19:42No.245873
I have been stuck at like 160% bw 20mm max hang since spring this year. Been hangboarding for two years in total. I think there is a massive genetic component to this and my fingers just aren't particularly strong
I have started doing 14mm max hang as well, and this is still going up, to see if it can spur on my 20mm and create some of kind synergetic effect. But really, I don't have good finger strength genetics really
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Anon10/24/25, 19:47No.245874
I did get stuck at like 130% for ages, but after I broke that plateau it went up rapidly- maybe the same thing will happen again and I'll be at 180 bw soon. But really my fingers just aren't that strong, I have seen zoomers hangboarding more than me and they aren't even routine hangboarders. Annoying because I am pretty strong gym-wise
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Anon10/24/25, 21:05No.245878
A fairly decent post there, thanks
But I don't need to keep any kind of log because I am not a memorylet/brainlet
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Anon10/25/25, 05:47No.245910
Watching the finals now
Do they ever share their DJ mixes anywhere on the internet? They're too good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxtF11EuHY
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Anon10/26/25, 20:43No.246084
Yo climbcels, is it possible to get kinda decent with 1x per week indoor climbing or is that "forever hardstuck at being able to do a few 7As that fit my style" tier?
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Anon10/27/25, 22:42No.246274
Running seems easy enough
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Anon10/30/25, 20:47No.246559
Ripped the entire fucking door handle out of the bathroom door at my climbing gym's toilets last week when I tried to open the door
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Anon10/30/25, 20:49No.246560
Do any pros train at your gym? There are a few olympians at mine. I've spoken to them briefly before one watched me do a route once for a bit and he looked mildly amused at my really unconventional beta. It's really wild to me that I'm here climbing V4 and there are literal olympic athletes sharing the training area with me
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Anon11/03/25, 03:27No.246900
A2 pulley on my right hand has been kinda fucked for the last month. Still climbing and trying to do recovery exercises for it, but i wake up in the middle of the night to it hurting and feeling swollen. During the day it's fine assuming im not jabbing into my finger. Any recommendations or advice, or should I just keep doing what im doing until it finally goes away? I didn't tear it or anything, as it was just a pain that gradually appeared.
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Anon11/05/25, 07:18No.247112
How much did off the wall training affect your climbing?
I'm currently projecting at around a 7B+/7C level and only training I am doing is a lot of board climbing. Was considering introducing a couple of hours of strength training twice a week targeting my weaknesses and was wondering how effective something similar has been for any of you lovely people.Also just got top 50 uk moonboard ranking yayyy :)
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Anon11/05/25, 21:37No.247166
lads, do your isometrics. It works on all joints and ligaments. My shoulder and knee tweak improved in about a week.
https://youtu.be/BnFzjcPTSsc
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Anon11/06/25, 04:56No.247198
How do you get better at campusing?
Do you need to be able to do shit ton of pull ups?
Unless the holds are total jugs and close to each other I can't campus shit.
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Anon11/08/25, 17:46No.247540
I've never made any friends through climbing
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Anon11/09/25, 15:18No.247644
Has anyone come across or heard anything about counterfeit climbing shoes? I was just in china, which has a great climbing scene btw, and the shoes there are soooooo cheap. Way cheaper than what I can get them for where I'm at.And I'm talking Scarpa / La sportiva, not random no name chinese brands.There is like a 40 euro difference(!!!) compared to the Scarpa official msrp on their website. I have seen the shoes on shelves and honestly they look legit and I doubt there is some large scale counterfeiting operation going on since the prices was the same everywhere. Is it just regional pricing?
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Anon11/09/25, 18:01No.247661
I would imagine the shoes are mostly made in China, even the ones that say they're "made" (aka finished) in Italy or whatever.
Have you looked at the tags?
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Anon11/10/25, 13:16No.247691
I finally got to a 11% bodyweight max hang. Did 3 sets of 10 seconds. LFG.
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Anon11/10/25, 22:49No.247729
Contact strength >> Finger strength
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Anon11/12/25, 11:55No.247838
my gym gets cold now in the winter and normally i just wear a shirt and some sport shorts. what do you guys wear to keep a little warmer when it gets a bit colder inside?
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Anon11/12/25, 13:18No.247842
Do you guys generally find gym memberships worth it? And if yes how often does your gym reset its routes?
The gyms in my area make a membership only barely worth it if you climb at their locations 3 times a week and they take up to 2-3 weeks to fully reset their walls. I can't do everything in the gyms but I would have long exhausted what routes I can send by then.Am I looking at this wrong?
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Anon11/12/25, 14:17No.247843
>attempting a route
>guy I know who is far more experienced than me is there trying one that is close by
>fail a particular move repeatedly because I am struggling to reach a hold above me and holding on to it after
>"damn, I'm not strong enough"
>"no, you're just not good enough"
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Anon11/12/25, 17:25No.247852
>can do pull ups on bar
>can do pull ups on rings
>can do pull ups on reasonably sized edges
>cant do a single fucking pull up once I'm supposed to hold/grab that hold instead of hang from it
I feel like complete retard. It's like my hands just say no.
Do I need to train my wrists or something?
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Anon11/13/25, 12:50No.247887
What V grade do I have to be able to climb before I can call myself a climber and not have intense imposter syndrome?
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Anon11/13/25, 13:30No.247888
>permabeg guy at gym proud of how he sized up his new shoes from street size
Tight shoe FUD is so bad that we have people wasting money on clown shoes to avoid looking try hard or whatever
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Anon11/14/25, 04:47No.247921
Any recommendations for online resolers to send my shoes in to? In northern California but no local resolers. Just bought a new pair but I want to use these old ones for outdoors.
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Anon11/15/25, 13:23No.247961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rVj-WQDgrc
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Anon11/15/25, 15:10No.247968
Obviously everyone is different, but at what kind of stages is an average person expected to be at depending on time spent climbing? like, what V grade would you be reasonably expected to be at after a year? I reckon a year is probably enough for most people climbing casually to get to at least a V3, probably 4.
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Anon11/15/25, 20:21No.247980
My 20mmax hang hasn't gone up in like 7 months
Just can't break +40kgMy 14mm threatens to go up, but I can't help but think I just don't have very strong fingers genetically
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Anon11/17/25, 21:12No.248102
This literal GRANDMA is climbing 8A. We have no excuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpAJEENfEjg
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Anon11/18/25, 19:21No.248159
i did my first outdoor v6 today
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Anon11/19/25, 00:13No.248167
Thinking of getting La Sportiva Katanas. A good upgrade for my Boreal Zenith shoes. They feel a little too soft and kinda slippy, but it could be cuz I'm only a V4 climber.Also, how the fuck is V4 considered "early intermediate"? It's challenging, but not THAT hard. I've been climbing like 5 months and it's where I'm currently at and I definitely don't consider myself an intermediate. I can barely ever do a V5 - I've probably done about 4 or 5 ever. I'm far too fat right now and weak to go harder.
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Anon11/20/25, 00:36No.248224
>trying a route I'm struggling with
>olympic athletes guys come round and smash the boulder like it's nothing as part of their warm up
>disheartened, try again using the technique they used to get past the part I couldn't complete
>about to fall off
>"Come on, come on"
>they're staring at me
>fuck I can't fall now
>complete it
>they say "nice" and fist bump meI was so nervous about fucking it up in front of them. It's too much fucking pressure training around the top 1% of athletes in the world. Imagine going to the gym to lift weights and a mr olympia competitor is just sat there watching you bench
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Anon11/20/25, 00:38No.248225
The owner of my climbing gym offered to buy me climbing shoes at trade price cuz I helped clean the gym : )
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Anon11/20/25, 02:19No.248231
I'm trying to get some shoes online but I'm not sure what size to get. Last time I got my regular street size and they turned out to be too big after they had time to stretch. Should I go one size smaller this time?
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Anon11/26/25, 08:29No.248827
I started bouldering a couple months ago after kinda being autistic about alpine and rock climbing from a distance for a good while, probably ever since I watched Touching the Void back in the day. I guess being antisocial and unhealthy kept me from doing it but im enjoying myself and clearing some 3s and 4s in the gym whilst unable to go beyond just yet. I'm around 75kg and 177cm and probably lost 20kg over the last year. Ive decent biceps and shoulders but I feel like my core and back suck as even underhang 3s have me feeling gassed out and my legs flailing. Ive also smoked for 15 years and only started to cut back in the last year to about 2 to 4 a day (not sure if relevant). I like slab which I guess is considered cringe and have only 2 climbing gyms within 400kms of me. Any tips or tricks? Thanks for reading my blogpost and sorry if any of this is covered in the thread I have not read through yet.
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Anon11/28/25, 13:50No.249116
Any instinct VS user can comment on the break in period?
I just got mine 1 size down. the fit feels almost perfect, but the toe knuckles hurts like a bitch. It's not a sharp pain but I definitely cannot imagine jumping and doing dynos like this.
I heard the instincts are known for a pretty narly break in period, will it get much better?
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Anon11/30/25, 16:35No.249388
There's this one 5.11 in my gym which is nothing but a crimp ladder. I am a technique advocate, and believe most problems can be solved with good positioning. But I kid you not, having 8 (yes I counted) crimps measuring between 10mm - 15mm with shitty chips in between is not good setting. It is lazy, and rewards finger-strength and nothing else. I've projected 5.12's which demand less finger strength.
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Anon11/30/25, 19:35No.249409
Never underestimate the power level of the 5ft Chinese girl in a beanie with an eyebrow slit
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Anon12/01/25, 22:41No.249507
First moonboard benchmark v9 today :)
Got it in a single session so pretty confident I will be able to find some v10s i can project
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Anon12/02/25, 04:36No.249518
Being a tall climber sucks. Your finger strength is ass. Your leverage is ass. You have to be so much stronger. Sick of seeing these short kings dominate in every aspect of climbing because they don't lug around so much weight.
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Anon12/03/25, 18:19No.249642
Did 4 routes at my gym that are in the V4-V5 bracket today. Didn't use to be able to do any of them. Feeling pretty good : ] only been climbing since late June
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Anon12/05/25, 15:32No.249815
What's the most likely weakness to have when you're starting moonboarding? I feel like I can't keep enough body tension to do any moves
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Anon12/06/25, 16:05No.249904
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjZvFY6__qw
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Anon12/07/25, 19:58No.249966
had a lot of fun thumbing plastic rock indoors today
worried I was falling out of love for it a second. But really, that is never going to happen. I won't be worried next time
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Anon12/07/25, 20:12No.249968
Anyone got a good repeater hangboard routine?
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Anon12/08/25, 00:24No.249978
anyone here got any gear they'd recommend for training grip/extensors at home? I was also looking at using a weighted jacket but idk what's even good
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Anon12/09/25, 01:22No.250055
I kinda wanna go surfing but I want to keep climbing as hard as possible fuuuuuuuuck
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Anon12/10/25, 02:27No.250139
I tried leading a 5.5 today, almost puked, and left a bail biner on the 3rd bolt. What would be the most appropriate/funny means of suicide?
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Anon12/10/25, 11:02No.250167
I suddenly became able to engage my hamstrings properly and crimp on stuff. Immediately jumped a grade.
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Anon12/10/25, 14:50No.250172
>6'3 93kg
>now barely climbing lmao6c in the gym
I should lose weight but I'm a greedy fuck
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Anon12/10/25, 21:15No.250223
I'm 175lbs at 5'8 and climb v8 outdoor/TB2, gym sets v9-10. I've been climbing for 9ish years now. I think I would climb much harder at something like 145-155 and still be resilient to injury but man do I hate cutting. I gotta just do it one day.
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Anon12/11/25, 14:37No.250283
Why do people climb pockets using ring finger+middle finger instead of middle finger+index finger?
I feel like my index finger is the strongest, I can't hold things without it.
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Anon12/13/25, 12:09No.250475
this 160% bw 20mm max hang has given me PTSD
I'm just gonna switch to 14mm and see what happens
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Anon12/13/25, 12:11No.250479
wish fingers worked like deadlifts and you can just do a few max sets and nothing else
does seem to work up to a point
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Anon12/13/25, 12:19No.250481
in the UK at least
a v8 in LA is a v2 in Sheffield
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Anon12/14/25, 00:52No.250511
Sprayed the faggot shirtless V3 climber award
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Anon12/14/25, 09:49No.250543
AITA for being annoyed at stronger climbers giving advice or correcting my beta when I just don't have the physicality or conditioning to execute their beta.It has happened a few times and most of the time I will humour them by trying their beta but when they continue trying to 'coach' it's annoying as hell.
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Anon12/14/25, 13:40No.250552
>be me UK v3-v4let
>walk into room with two cute girls my age trying a v5
>they can get halfway through the problem but no further
>I figure it looks doable
>ask them for advice on how to start it, give it a couple goes, they go to another room while I struggle
>I can barely even get 1/3 of the way through the problem for half an hour but I keep at it, slowly getting further each try
>the two girls walk in again a little later
>I manage to finish the problem in front of them
>show them how I did it
>they manage to do it too
>have now made new friends
feels good man
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Anon12/14/25, 15:58No.250567
climbing>>>>>>>climbers
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Anon12/15/25, 03:20No.250619
Where my ontariobros at? Climbing is so fun. Only got outside a few times this year unfortunately but back at the gym regularly over the winter.Hlow do you guys mix weight lifting with your climbing? Do you cater your lifting to climbing? If I lift the day before I climb I know I'll have a bad, frustrating climb. I'm only lifting two days/week right now and only climbing 2 days/week as well.I'm trying to strike a decent balance between lifting to accomodate climbing and lifting to actually look a little better. Current routines are:Day 1:
>Weighted pull ups 5x5
>deadlift 5x5
>seated row 3x10
>bicep curl (dumbbell or barbell) 3x10Day 2:
>Squats 5x5
>barbell bench 5x5
>incline bench 3x10
>lateral raises 3x1010 mins cardio to warmup, stretch for 10-15 mins after lifting. Obviously the weighted pull ups help with climbing to a degree but I don't really think everything else does, besides being in better shape and just generally stronger.idk, thoughts? what do your routines look like?
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Anon12/18/25, 06:17No.250885
wmaf climber chads ww@
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Anon12/19/25, 14:17No.250969
I can't be friends with women because I'm too hot and they all want to fuck me
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Anon12/20/25, 17:45No.251052
boulder Brighton is really based bouldering gym
mental how it's basically the only one in Sussex and there's a billion in Donedon
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Anon12/20/25, 21:57No.251092
I went back and sent the 5.5
I love climbing outdoors I can't wait until I can lead more than 1 route in a day without having a panic attack
You may NOT unsubscribe from my blog
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Anon12/21/25, 16:26No.251132
gripping a hold and pulling hard is a great feeling. don't understand people who enjoy slab
bit of a natural griplet though, unfortunately. taken me two years to even get to 150% bw 20mm max and I'm not sure it's ever going to go up further
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Anon12/21/25, 22:21No.251164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ArgSCGmZU
it was an exciting final
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Anon12/23/25, 20:18No.251425
I JUST DID A FUCKING PULLUP WITH 100LBS ADDED! LETS FUCKING GO GENTS.
>I climb V4 on kilter.
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Anon12/24/25, 01:38No.251444
can i get into climbing completely by myself i don't like people
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Anon12/24/25, 14:13No.251496
https://youtu.be/Q8ihYRfjTyk
https://youtu.be/9icOP056Elc
https://youtu.be/gYOTvLRq77w
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Anon12/25/25, 01:27No.251565
Is 8am early enough to beat the crowd in boulder canyon on the weekend? Specifically animal world. On one hand, holiday weekend might be busy, on the other hand, half the population of boulder should be out of town
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Anon12/26/25, 17:47No.251694
high sports Brighton tomorrow I reckon
too many climbers at boulder Brighton
the vibe is off
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Anon12/27/25, 14:33No.251777
touched a spray wall for the first time ever today
hopefully I am now alexander megos
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Anon12/27/25, 17:27No.251788
can do 30 pull-ups one set but 1 one-arm doesn't even feel particularly close
peak
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Anon12/27/25, 18:21No.251796
I suppose it's just a bit of fun and a good way to do lots of different climbing in a short space of time
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Anon12/27/25, 20:10No.251814
is she on spectrum?
swear she's strongest female board climber in world?
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Anon12/29/25, 03:10No.251936
Wtf I went climbing in Lisbon and it felt insanely hard compared to the UK. The guy told me the gym only opened 2 weeks ago and the route setting was particularly hard and inaccurate at the moment, but still. It was pretty much all slab/overhung and I couldn't do anything harder than a V3 even though I usually climb up to V5.
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Anon12/29/25, 21:29No.251995
>know how to belay but don't have a lot of experience and haven't done it in a while
>would never in a million years trust someone with my own background on account of having received one too many shitty belays by other noobs, so I understand why no one would want to climb with me
>still really want to climb regardless
AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGH
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Anon12/30/25, 23:52No.252093
went to boulder Brighton today because I wanted to use the moonboard
but there were these zoom zoom geese fans literally camped out there for like 3 hours
there are two things wrongwhy they don't put a time limit on moonboard usage
and why there are are only like 2 bouldering centres in Sussex. 1 has a moonboard
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Anon12/30/25, 23:59No.252094
3rd thing wrong is how rare a moonboard is in general
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Anon12/31/25, 00:05No.252096
when I bring out a bouldering centre in West Sussex with my grandfathers millions. something West Sussex is so dearly crying out for
it will have two moonboards
zero slab except for warm up
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Anon12/31/25, 16:04No.252151
every climbing gym needs two moonboards
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Anon12/31/25, 16:06No.252152
AT LEAST
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Anon12/31/25, 22:25No.252190
Question for the dirtbags -
How the fuck do you keep training without your fingers getting tired? Kilterboard + hangboarding + crimp ladder route-setting makes my fingers cry. I feel like shit, so I keep reducing volume, but all my friends call me a whiny baby who should just keep climbing. after a 30 minute warmup, my sessions are like 90 minutes, they can climb crimpy shit, resting less, for hours upon hours. Literally how? Do you not feel exhaustion or something?
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Anon01/01/26, 03:40No.252218
When I climb the vertical, technical, crimpy problems at my home gym that are all about body positioning, balance, footwork and crimps I do really well and can climb up to V5. when I go to a different gym and shit is slopey or overhung in the slightest I can only do like V3. I guess It's just a discrepancy between skill and physical ability for me.
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Anon01/01/26, 17:37No.252257
megos is a twink
he's tiny not jacked at all
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Anon01/01/26, 17:40No.252258
he's literally like 125lbs
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Anon01/04/26, 20:54No.252567
I can't hold tension for shit.
I think my legs are too weak, should I do deadlifts or something?
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Anon01/05/26, 17:40No.252648
my 20mm max hang has just gone up after like an 8 month plateau wew
about a month after adding 14mm to routine
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Anon01/05/26, 19:46No.252667
What the fuck. Everytime I try to start hangboarding to get stronger fingers I injure myself. Every year after months of feeling strong I decide to start training finger strength, every year I tell myself, yea this is the time. This time you won't pull a pulley. But after 3 weeks one of my fingers starts hurting. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. Fuck this gayass sport. I guess I will try again once my finger heals in half a year.
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Anon01/06/26, 20:48No.252819
Here's an actionable tip that once incorporated will very noticeably and incontrovertibly improve your body tension: curl and squeeze your toes HARD on footholds where keeping the foot is necessary. Body tension is only as good as the weakest link in the chain of tension.Clawing into footholds and pulling outwards is great when it's possible to do so, but if the feet aren't incut at all, you still need to be able to generate tension without having anything to claw into. Try flexing your feet, it just works.
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Anon01/07/26, 17:37No.252937
'stuck in the Johnny with you' on kilterboard is a v6 on UK app. exactly the same climb is a v8 in US
wtf
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Anon01/07/26, 23:01No.252984
can anyone help me find this video of a Japanese climber doing a bunch of different boulders at Black Mountain in CA? Specifically remember seeing him do Tour de France Sit, but did a dyno to skip a hold
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Anon01/11/26, 22:12No.253481
>be me v3-v4let
>tough climb in the 'evil room' that I've not managed to get further than halfway on in a week of trying
>see this dude giving it a go and struggling with this initial dynamic jump
>I offer advice on how to do the jump which I can reliably do, with the caveat that I've never managed to go further
>he's happy to see me demonstrate it
>I go to demonstrate
>end up completing this previously impossible climb
this is like the third or fourth time something like this has happened
on the one hand I feel like a massive dick when it occurs since it comes across like I'm being false-modest just to flex, but on the other hand it's unintentionally turning into a consistent method or surmounting otherwise insurmountable climbs
is there some kind of psychological explanation for this? maybe the fact I go into the climb without the expectation of success makes me ultimately more focused or something?
picrel is me reaching for that final hold btw (real photo)
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Anon01/12/26, 08:02No.253500
Reddit says that beginners should "just climb". However, I am decent at drawing, running and chess and I know from those things that reddit always gives dogshit advice to beginners.
What should beginners actually do, 4chudbros?
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Anon01/13/26, 00:16No.253524
>How long do you project the v5s or harder for?
To answer your question - Depends. Some sessions I get it by the session's end, other V5s at my gym I literally cannot even start. I'd say nowadays, projects take me 4-5 sessions most? I've kinda stepped back to focus on the movement pyramid.
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Anon01/17/26, 01:46No.253662
Tfw I'm natural climber but plateaued 1.5 years ago and refuse to do any strength training and now now everything is either too easy or too hard
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Anon01/17/26, 10:32No.253670
just discovered there's actually TWO girls at my gym that look like fat Miho...
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Anon01/17/26, 13:53No.253675
i do 20mm max hangs religiously
nothing is more important than my 20mm max hang weightSam Prior is strong because he did 20mm hangs for 5 years
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Anon01/17/26, 13:55No.253676
only way to get stronger is through progressive overload
Sam Prior knew thisthat's why Sam Prior is Strong, and not Wrong
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Anon01/18/26, 16:47No.253695
yeah I've seriously worked out how to break 20mm max hang plateaus
just add 15mm max hangs for 3 seconds and keep upping weight. maybe don't if you are injury prone
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Anon01/19/26, 11:51No.253709
I found a guy on a fb climbing group who ended up being super cool and is very keen on getting me into trad as an outdoor noob. Did my first sport multipitch with him on a fantastic little route. Other than the shitting and crying I did on the way down it was an excellent time. It's been so long since i made a new friend.
I love climbing I'm so glad I made a serious effort to do it on hard mode (no gym membership)
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Anon01/19/26, 14:12No.253713
i'm looking for a shoe that might or might not exist. basically i need a new bouldering/indoor shoe because my old one is falling apart, but over time i started to prefer laces over velcro. so now im left wondering if a soft, but aggressively shaped lace up shoe exists.the closest i found so far is probably the unparallel sirius, but im in europe and cant find it in stock. lasportiva and tenaya might have some options but they seem overpriced. then there is red chili voltage lace, but those are still described as somewhat stiff.
any ideas?
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Anon01/20/26, 16:57No.253742
If the only thing that hurts about a climbing shoe is the big toe knuckle when applying pressure on the big toe, what is the most likely issue?
is it the:
>size?
>shape/last?
>aggressiveness?I somehow doubt that size is the issue since it is only that one area and my shoes fit fine other wise.
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Anon01/20/26, 19:24No.253746
How accurate is mondopoint as an estimate to what size climbing shoes you should be getting? All my shoes are at the size the various brands think I should be wearing at my mondopoint and while there are some variations, it has been mostly accurate.
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Anon01/22/26, 09:37No.253826
for it's the wave climbing wall at the foundry Sheffield
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Anon01/22/26, 13:47No.253837
Anyone here tried madrocks?
If so, how are the drones cs/d2.1 compared to la sportiva shoes from indoor perspective?
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Anon01/23/26, 10:35No.253866
it's synergetic with my 5-7mm max hangs and those are going up too btw. that's the entire point
in case is anyone is like 'herr derr you're not hanging long enough to properly activate the tendons or replicate climbing'
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Anon01/23/26, 23:08No.253878
Anybody know where to watch the Honnold climb (not netflix obv)?
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Anon01/24/26, 17:59No.253909
the wave foundry is simply one of the best bouldering walls in the world
Sheffield man truly best
primarlily a rope climbing place but that wave wall downstairs is immense
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Anon01/24/26, 18:00No.253910
the wave foundry is simply one of the best bouldering walls in the world
Sheffield man truly blessed
primarily a rope climbing place but that wave wall downstairs is immense
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Anon01/25/26, 22:17No.254001
>done a bunch of 6cs now
>spend a session on a 6c+ a climb at the gym before christmas
>come back a week ago and it's been upgraded to 7a
>would be my first ever
>spend one session on it, able to reliably get to the final section, just can't make the moves
>figure it out in my head, confident it's doable, excited to finish my first ever 7a
>return today
>it's been reset
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Anon01/28/26, 01:00No.254195
Crazy how much kilter angle makes a huge difference. Started doing 50 degrees a month ago and felt confident, moved it up to 55 degrees, a V2 feels like a V5/V6. Hell of a change.Also, anyone got tips for managing kilter callouses? My sessions end because my skin gets raw rather than because I'm done climbing. Vaseline nightly helps alot, but whats something I can do to thicken my skin?