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Anon04/10/26, 06:44No.259476

Recently found out that if the skin on your fingers grows thicker, it sweats less (until it wears back down again). I started using some hand serum that supposedly makes your skin grow faster, and after a week it seems to be doing something, just barely.

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Anon04/10/26, 14:38No.259501

Wanted to follow up. Why every ten days? Any reason or just vibes? My routine is every two weeks, but in April I want to do twice a week, Mondays and Fridays. Yesterday I did 3 sets of 5 seconds, Friday I will do 4 sets of 5 seconds, then Monday I'll do 5 sets of 5 seconds. After that, I'll up the weight, between 1-2kg. Thoughts?What's your routine like? how many sets on 20mm? 15mm? Do you train three finger drag or just half crimp? Since my last post, my max hang went up by 2.5kg, and it's been quite the fight.

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Anon04/10/26, 16:43No.259515

Trying out the hangboard meme. I'm still certain board climbing is superior in every way but maybe it's a useful addition

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Anon04/10/26, 18:07No.259528

it's been well established that climbing is dominated by white people and asians, but what are the ethnic groups which climb the least, and why?

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Anon04/11/26, 02:43No.259569

I've accepted that I'll never be able to climb due to injuries so I treat it like a spectator sport. Hopefully there's a gym near me where I can just chill and cheer people on without being expected to actually climb myself. Bouldering is my jam, not too interested in watching people do lead but I understand all of it takes some variant of skills and physique.

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Anon04/11/26, 14:28No.259591

world climbing asia championshiphttps://www.youtube.com/live/JhXONbTNJWEmy goat ai mori btfos the competition. also some of the japanese climbers are cute :)

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Anon04/11/26, 17:14No.259602

I'm starting to become such a simp for Maddie Richardson. I hope she'll make it to the podiums this year.

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Anon04/12/26, 15:59No.259662

tfw injured my wrist it's over

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Anon04/12/26, 16:04No.259663

>is based in your path

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Anon04/15/26, 19:04No.259846

What is the reason why certain boulder climbers will opt to not bring a chalk bag with them? Sometimes the commentators will point out that they're losing grip and trying to get some from the back of their pants but have no way to reinforce it.

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Anon04/20/26, 15:01No.260146

People who say technique is what's holding me back on moonboard are so full of shit. I start a hangboarding routine, and immediately send my project within 3 weeks. Cruxes feel so much easier, I'm not pumping myself out on each and every single move. Can't believe I got baited into thinking that tension alone would've made me a V8 climber.Technique/tension still massively important though, but it's insane how much a simple 7lb increase in max-hanging made those crimps feel.

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Anon04/20/26, 21:54No.260156

I've tried to get a few women into cloombing but they all went a couple of times and then stopped. I wasn't acting like a betaspraying sperg either, just let them climb for fun and helped if they asked for it. Is climbing male-coded?

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Anon04/20/26, 23:54No.260163

>climbing partner moves >go to the gym’s partner finder board and notice they added a column for pronouns >text the only one who didn’t list his pronouns >he’s been the most reliable climbing partner I’ve ever had Maybe I’ll change my mind about tranny behavior if it helps sort out the freaks this easily

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Anon04/22/26, 03:39No.260220

Why do these fuckers have so many youtube channels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAGheuYrXSUAlso give me some stuff that's not as big brand with sponsors everywhere

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Anon04/22/26, 08:55No.260226

>see guy working at my usual gym at another gym >"you haven't been climbing for 4 days in a row have you? if you did i'd be worried"

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Anon04/23/26, 21:23No.260318

Bros I think I fucked up and got an TFCC injury, how do I reduce the pain and get the strength back? I have a comp on Saturday.

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Anon04/29/26, 20:52No.260782

Last year I posted a kind of live blog while attempting to rope solo Rooster Rock. That was on the /out/ climbing general which is dead now (rip). I had to bail after the first pitch when my twine lanyard disintegrated.Now I'm back to try it again, with a proper lanyard this time. First up is this lovely approach along the side of the freeway.>not your personal blog You will just have to bear it. I believe in you.

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Anon04/29/26, 20:59No.260787

Anchor installed. This is how a bowline is supposed to look, right? I'm relying on you for the buddy check.

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Anon04/29/26, 21:13No.260788

Ready to climb I guess. Climber's strand goes to the tree anchor; brake strand goes through the microtrax and then down into a big pile. The trax is to prevent rope drag and hopefully ensure that the grigri locks in a fall.

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Anon04/29/26, 21:41No.260792

I brought rubber bands this time to trap the rope so the weight of it doesn't pull slack through the grigri. First pitch is climbed and now I gotta clean and reclimb.

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Anon04/29/26, 21:46No.260794

The weather could not be better. Climbing is so damn fun bros. Just me, open air, and the bullshit 4chan captcha.

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Anon04/29/26, 21:56No.260795

Here's the TRS setup, if anyone is curious. Trax looks kinda weird pressing up against the grigri like that but I can't think of any reason why it would be a problem.

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Anon04/29/26, 22:10No.260798

Starting up p2. This is a trad pitch, but the climbing is even easier. There's a traverse at the top so I'll have to do some kind of redirect while cleaning.

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Anon04/29/26, 22:20No.260799

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Anon04/29/26, 22:25No.260800

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Anon04/29/26, 22:38No.260805

And I'm up. Gorgeous view. Somehow there's a serviceberry bush up here with butterflies on it. I can see an osprey nest below me by the river. And these turkey vultures floating around. Maybe they saw my LRS setup and decided to stay close.Anyway at this point I would love to rap/clean and be done with it but because of the traverse I'll have to rap, refix, clean, reclimb, and then rap again.

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Anon04/29/26, 23:34No.260813

And I'm back on the ground. After my first rappel I realized with some alarm that my rope was only just long enough after the refix. I usually bring a 60m for this route but fortunately I had an 80m today. I should have realized when I fixed the rope at the summit right on the middle mark. I didn't bother to pull the rope so it's just good luck that I decided to knot the end of the slack line. As if anyone needed another reminder.

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Anon04/30/26, 20:59No.260857

When I see a westerner post an indoor boulder video, it's usually got really soft grading. Why is that? t. Slav

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Anon05/02/26, 05:03No.260960

>take year off from watching world cups >come back >oriane has tattoos >most of the girls are wearing loose shorts now >production is still abysmal fuck this i'm out. it's ruined.

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Anon05/02/26, 11:17No.260970

why do 18 year old female climbers look 30

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Anon05/02/26, 14:35No.260977

>janja is washed now grim

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Anon05/02/26, 15:30No.260985

If you climb the kilter jug board at anything other than 50 degrees or more onerous, then you should be banned from all climbing gyms in the nation. Nothing was funnier than going into the old app and reading the comments of some dyel calling a particular boulder hard and seeing they climbed it at 35 degrees

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Anon05/03/26, 03:04No.261048

>he wears climbing shoes in 2026 unc

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Anon05/03/26, 03:27No.261050

>Are you illiterate? Typo. Besides. I can't believe anon climbs anything respectable at 50 degrees. He probably tried (and failed) a V2 at 50 deg then went back to his v4 proj at a smol angle. Nobody talks like this. Literally nobody. >You should be banned from climbing gyms because you don't [CLIMB 50 DEGREES ON A SINGLE TRAINING BOARD] Okay chum. Carry on seething.

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Anon05/03/26, 12:40No.261062

City Bloc, Leeds is unironically the best climbing gym in the world

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Anon05/03/26, 12:41No.261063

the kind of place where strength is respected you'll be doing your 20mm max hangs and Hamish and Max will be nearby chilling I can't think of a place that celebrates climbing strength more than city Bloc

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Anon05/03/26, 12:44No.261064

Bwos just flashed my first outdoor boulder and it was allegedly V6? Is Australia super soft cause no one ever comes down here?

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Anon05/03/26, 12:47No.261065

rather, I can't think of a climbing gym in the world that accommodates climbing strength more than city bloc does

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Anon05/03/26, 12:57No.261067

I think indoor slab climbing should probably be made illegal desu if I was Prime minister I would probably outright ban it over night,.along with padelclimbing gym sen in donedon has the right idea because the only slab they have is some cynical, half-arsed warm up area

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Anon05/03/26, 14:43No.261070

Why is "flashing" such a big deal in the climbing world? Why does it matter how many times you tried? Either you did it or not. I heard a gym in a gym saying he is not feeling 100% so he is saving his flash attempt, which for me is crazy. You are literally a meter away, just try it. Why is this "flash attempt" living rent free in their heads? You are not Adam Ondra, you are not flashing 8C, you are average dude "flashing" 6A.

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Anon05/03/26, 15:05No.261072

Just remembered there was a climbing girls thread on /s/ a while ago and I didn’t save any pics :(

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Anon05/03/26, 22:54No.261115

Had a great time at the gym trying to send a huge dyno when I noticed a famous actress from my country, who also goes to my gym, was watching me and telling me I was so close. So I locked in hard and sent it in the next try. She got super hyped, and honestly, that felt so good man she’s super cute.

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Anon05/04/26, 00:09No.261120

How much do you care about proper ratings at the gym? Mine here only sets vague colors. Have only been at two others, one did the same but seemed like everything way much harder. While one tried to give v grades. Personally I don't really care. Having spoken with the staff about route setting. It seems they want to be vague to drive people to not get stuck in the mindset of "ooh I can only climb yellow, I could never climb red that's too hard."So there are blues (2/6) which are harder than yellows (3/6) at times. But also the opposite where yellows are much easier than expected. That said, I did my first red route recently which is one above yellow. Which was cool. But only because I was egged on and that was a mistake. Had to take a week off because holy shit my hands and fingers hurt after crimping above my ability.

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Anon05/04/26, 12:09No.261147

I can finally do muscle-ups

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Anon05/04/26, 13:17No.261152

>read about how to do overhangs >straight arms, tension, drop knees, heel hooks, all makes sense >go climb >can't make it work whatsoever Wat do? Do I just keep throwing myself at the wall until I figure it out? The worst thing is that I wreck my arms way quicker on overhangs so my sessions get cut short.

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Anon05/04/26, 14:51No.261158

I need to moonboard more, isn't one in my city though unfortunately

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Anon05/04/26, 15:45No.261160

i can do 24 pull-ups, sixth set, in a jumper, on a thick bar

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Anon05/05/26, 18:53No.261222

New Colin Haley kino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxltm25tgdQ

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Anon05/06/26, 13:58No.261277

Is it a bad idea to stop climbing over the summer and do something else instead(regular gym for example). It's already uncomfortably hot and no amount of mag dust will fix this.

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Anon05/08/26, 07:08No.261433

up to +53.75kg 20mm max hang the hangboard at my local climbing place has 'max load-60kg' written on it does that mean I will have to stop doing 20mm max hang soon at that climbing place, and smaller edges/one hand only? that is gay

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Anon05/09/26, 01:33No.261547

>See a new, beefy meathead failing to climb the easiest of problems >Give him his chance but don't want to cut in line or one up him/give the beta >See him finishing the session doing weighted pullups Genuinely an eye opening experience. I can't do a pull up. But I can still climb, pinch, crimp and whatever more than he could. Based on the boulders he could barely start. I wish you the best of climbing muscleman.

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Anon05/09/26, 05:31No.261565

is the loli not participating in lead?

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Anon05/09/26, 08:14No.261572

I hate to do it but I can't help it I'm gonna green text about stupid gym behavior and you are just gonna have to call me a faggot later >belaying my dad on a lead route which is close to his limit >some guy walks up and starts up an autobelay that's immediately adjacent >by immediately adjacent I mean this route literally overlaps the route that my dad is on >as soon as I realize what he's doing I shout at him that he's in the fall zone >no response; he has headphones in >I yell at my dad to take instead of falling >he sees the guy and immediately takes and waits for him >the guy is climbing very slowly and finally reaches the top of the route >pauses for a moment >starts to slowly downclimb >he finally reaches the ground and my dad gets ready to resume climbing >retard starts back up the route >this time he can't ignore me when I yell at him not to climb under someone leading and that he could get hit if my climber falls >"nah I think it's fine" >resumes climbing >dad just tells me to lower him and we leaveI usually try to mind my own business but I couldn't believe my eyes with this guy. He was very clearly in danger of getting hit in a fall and didn't give a fuck. Not only that but he could see we were waiting for him and he just kept climbing laps. Psychotic behavior.

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Anon05/10/26, 20:13No.261669

i went free soloing for the first time today it was pretty fun, not as scary as i imagined but it was a very easy route, maybe i will try a multipitch one day but i think i will just stick to bouldering for solo climbing unfortunately i didnt fall

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Anon05/11/26, 18:01No.261712

nothing more reddit than a bunch of redditors crowded around a newly set slab wall

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Anon05/11/26, 18:35No.261717

as well as the meme hangs btw I can also do a +65kg chin-up reckon I'm literally the strongest person in the world that can't climb a 7a in Sheffield never been a particularly graceful mover

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Anon05/11/26, 18:37No.261718

actually I suppose I can in a commercial place

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Anon05/12/26, 13:30No.261747

For me it's repeatedly failing on boulders that are a grade above my skills for two hours before leaving without finishing a single boulder.

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Anon05/13/26, 14:16No.261792

would this thread be a good place to show videos of me climbing so I can ask for advice on how to improve my form? or would that be gay and retarded. I get decent advice from climbers in my gym but I'd genuinely be curious to see what some of the more experienced anons here have to say

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Anon05/14/26, 19:04No.261827

Training board is so fun. Can’t go back to my gym’s setting unless I do the occasional lead route.

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Anon05/14/26, 22:11No.261832

>get really bad blister just below the base of my left middle finger >fucks with me for a week and makes pretty much every climb hell >heals after a few days >the same day it's healed, instantly develop a blood blister on my left ring finger >it pops while I'm climbing on my fuckass project >I can now no longer do my project without excruciating pain Is there a god of climbing? does he do this just to fuck with us?

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Anon05/16/26, 16:52No.261885

the future of gym climbing

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Anon05/18/26, 19:57No.261970

>first finger injury in 2 years >okay.jpg >I'll just campus on jugs on my spray wall to work on pulling strength while finger recovers :) >first shoulder injury in 9 years of climbing >okay.jpgFug

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Anon05/19/26, 15:26No.262000

i got into argument with some on here a long ass time ago. they posted a video from like the 90’s. it was like a how to on techniques. it was a pro i don’t remember them name anyone of anything like that ?the guys head was shaved in the video and it was broken up into a bunch of different YouTube vids

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Anon05/21/26, 09:19No.262036

how much of an impact on climbing recovery does heavy drinking have? I've been getting wasted every two to three days for the last three weeks and I feel like it's been fucking up my climbing

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Anon05/21/26, 15:17No.262041

>"I'm totally not going to be that climber that plateaus at V4/V5, trust me" >2 years later I am that climber kill me brehs

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Anon05/22/26, 06:06No.262072

I'm in joe's valley for the weekend those V2s had better watch out!

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Anon05/22/26, 18:25No.262098

>There's lots of protocols, but don't do it unless you've climbed for 1-2 years, this is retarded advice. if you want to make your fingers stronger you should start hangboarding as soon as possible. I would say 3 months in you should start doing 20mm max hangs don't get me wrong, I am NOT a good climber and I am in search of lost time, and there are plenty of climbers who will never touch a hangboard who will always be better than me but doing 20mm max hangs immediately is not going to do anyone any harm at all, and could make or break you ultimately somewhere along the line

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Anon05/22/26, 18:27No.262099

also>ass FOY

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Anon05/22/26, 23:45No.262114

newanon, a month-and-some on bouldering, and i see all this talk about v-1 - v5 etc grades, but my local gym just has different colors. went to another gym which seemed to have a numerical grading system, but not the one i see online. is this cause im a eurofag (or just retarded) >pic related (how i feel after successfully flashing a route (i get bossed on by a 5’1 asian a sec later))

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Anon05/23/26, 09:23No.262128

beginning think loading pin grip strength exercises are the padel of grip strength training exercises nobody can be arsed to use a weighted belt and hang like a normal person

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Anon05/23/26, 12:05No.262133

*beginning to think

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Anon05/23/26, 16:57No.262140

what the fuck is with the grading in New World gyms? or is just US gyms? A v8 in New York is literally a v3 at rock cit hull. basically outside the UK people are using a completely different grading system but still calling it the same thing which is annoying. I've seen some videos online of gyms in Germany and that seems really soft and weird as well

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Anon05/23/26, 17:37No.262141

annie is a washed up hag, it's over

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Anon05/24/26, 01:28No.262160

you guys see a lot of older people in the bouldering gym? im about to turn 39 this year and tired of lifting weights. Thinking of starting climbing cause i dabbled with it in the past but am self conscious about my age

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Anon05/24/26, 14:23No.262178

Kids are the ultimate climbers. They weight nothing, every crimp is jug for them, they have no fear of heights and their body hasn't been ruined by 20 years of sitting in work/school. Yeah they might be flashing my projects, but I would be flashing their homework. (I'm joking btw, I really don't mind)

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Anon05/24/26, 17:38No.262181

oh my God that dude just said he wants to flash at kids

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Anon05/24/26, 17:43No.262183

there's cases of long term climbers getting stronger than they have ever been after 40 tom randall is about 50 and still setting grip strength PRs relatively speaking, climbing is an old man's game

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Anon05/27/26, 07:41No.262406

coolest v2 out there

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Anon05/28/26, 12:17No.262490

Lmao Hannah Meul is fucking washed, stupid useless RED-S bitch

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Anon05/29/26, 16:18No.262573

okay, so it's generally accepted, that being too tall is bad, because longer levers and worse strength/weight ratio. but I have the impression that a big ape index is considered good. does the increased reach balance out the longer lever because the strength/weight ratio doesn't really change much if you just have freakishly long arms? does anybody have a proper explanation?

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Anon05/30/26, 15:35No.262673

weighted pull-ups has basically become the new bench press and I think a lot of this has to do with people sensing bench press is surplus strength, and weighted pull-ups actually feeds into something primal like climbing

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Anon05/31/26, 02:38No.262755

I'm sick of "World Climbings" terrible camera work ruining all the boulder comps, they have total amateur production and the commentators dicksucking their 3 favorite athletes and paying no attention to the rest gets on my nerves too.

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Anon06/01/26, 02:31No.262851

Recently started going to a bouldering gym near me, I don't really go often and I don't know if I'll stick around with it long term yet, but it's been fun even if I can only do the pretty basic ones. I like the ones that have some fancy footwork, but haven't gotten too far...But is there a point in which I blame rental shoes? I assume it's a technique problem, but it's weird seeing people do boulders the way I'd think I'm supposed to do it, but when I go for it my feet just instantly slide off despite watching them do that very same walk. I assume this is more a leverage issue at my point, but I'm also just wondering at what point is it legitimately the shoe's fault.

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Anon06/01/26, 08:23No.262868

the contact area thing has always bothered me because I learned in school that the force of friction doesn't have anything to do with surface area F = µ * Fn or whatever it's literally just the friction coefficient times normal forcethis article says that doesn't apply to soft-on-hard surfaces though which is why it matters in climbing. interesting read. https://threerockbooks.com/friction-and-rock-climbing/

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Anon06/02/26, 17:18No.262961

>being able to climb 6C is enough to mog normals at the local gumby gym Feels really bizarre, having been the token unathletic kid throughout my teens...

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Anon06/05/26, 23:14No.263186

I'm taking a break from climbing for awhile. I just cannot mentally handle the constant comparison inherent to this sport. Every time I fall I just compare myself to my friends who sent it easily. In 4 years I can only climb at a grade my friends could do in their first year (V6). Every time I try to get better, I progress so slowly, but my friends just progress fast as fuck without giving a shit. I just can't stand it any longer. I feel worthless. I feel like I'm a nobody, and that I should give up. The most fun I had in climbing was at a gym in Utah where there weren't even any graded climbs, just colored ranges. Then my mood was ruined when some dude was like, "that gym grades soft as shit brother, hardest thing in there is a V8 lol"completely sucked away all of my motivation to climb. I'll just hangboard in the meanwhile. And play volleyball.

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Anon06/06/26, 07:34No.263230

climbing isn't your problem. unironically, seek therapy.

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Anon06/06/26, 08:01No.263232

Damn dude sucks to be you. I will rather spend eternity in V4 purgatory than lifting heavy weights or roooniiing.

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Anon06/06/26, 19:25No.263258

>be me >student >able to go climbing 4-5 times a week >get a full time job, 9-6:30 most days >no more time to go climbing fuck

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Anon06/07/26, 16:10No.263304

ayy lmaos need wider binos

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Anon06/07/26, 18:59No.263316

SOVL

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Anon06/07/26, 19:43No.263318

>every random high school kid campuses like nobody's business >I can't even do 1-3-5 on the big logs My mind just cannot comprehend the sheer power needed for this. My long weak arms refuse to pull.

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Anon06/09/26, 14:39No.263417

Any nosleepfags here? I nuked my circadian rhythm and now I sleep like 4 hours a night on average. Kinda fucks with my recovery tbhdesu.

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Anon06/12/26, 09:14No.263620

If I start climbing in the gym will I be able to climb building almost like in Assassin's Creed or Alain Robert?

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Anon06/12/26, 19:30No.263657

if you want to climb Snake Dike you'd better get on it soon before the bolts get chopped this weekend

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Anon06/13/26, 00:24No.263676

I think we can all agree that this argument about a meme is somehow faggier than retro bolting snake dike

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Anon06/13/26, 01:00No.263680

How faggy is it to top rope outdoors instead of trad because projecting a 5.11c on top rope seems like a more productive use of my time then leading a 5.6 because I'm scared shitless.Also about to buy my first set of CAMS. thoughts? Useful for TOP ROPE ANCHORS.

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Anon06/14/26, 01:29No.263859

Anyone have recs for sexy climbing girls youtubes/instagram content? I like how willing they are to show off their beautiful toned bodies and bare feet.

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Anon06/14/26, 18:21No.263913

Okay, about to fully commit to buying a trad rack. Based off of Chat-GPT, I'm gonna get 12 nuts, 12 slings +24 carabiners, .3 Cam .5 Cam, x2 .75 Cam x 2 1 CAM x 2 2 Cam, and a tiny set of offwidths.

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Anon06/15/26, 02:57No.263951

Is slab something you can just do every day? It doesn't fuck with my body the way other forms of climbing do.

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Anon06/15/26, 12:18No.263964

Two weeks ago I switched from bouldering 1x a week to 3x and stopped lifting for now because otherwise I wouldn't be able to handle the recovery. Today I tried doing pull ups and I broke through my plateau of 8 reps straight to 12. Thank you, bouldering. I'll always be hooked on you.

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Anon06/15/26, 14:18No.263970

What tools do you guys use to train your grip? I wanna buy something I can use at home to get stronger and improve my endurance. I bought to rubber bands with holes for your fingers to train finger extension but they fucking snapped.

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Anon06/15/26, 18:29No.263981

just a reminder for anons that want to start with outdoor climbing, around this time at the start of summer theres always a ton of cheap barely used bouldering pads being sold, sometimes at 25% of the original price

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Anon06/16/26, 03:43No.264016

For giving slack with a GriGri - How do you do it fast? If I push my thumb onto the black while holding the breakhand, I can only give so much slack before the break hand clashes with the device (I can only give 2-3 feet of slack really fast, then I have to adjust my breakhand). So it's like I have to predict if someone needs slack. But if I mis-predict, and they suddenly take a fall, well now my break hand is really fucking far away from me.

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Anon06/18/26, 14:09No.264128

Why does bouldering completely obliterate my brachialis? They're a bigger limiting factor in terms of training frequency for me than fingers.

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Anon06/18/26, 20:58No.264136

>about to drop another $200 on some new shoesiesalso, imagine the HJs from annie sanders

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Anon06/19/26, 12:52No.264185

Got rope access certified. First step on becoming an absolute dirtbag done. Now I just need a van and a crippling substance addiction.

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Anon06/21/26, 20:31No.264327

Any recommendations on shoes? I've been wearing the old model scarpa vapor v and while I enjoy them, they aren't the best for heel hooking in my experience. While most of the shoe fits perfect, I find the heel slipping off of my foot on demanding moves like heel hooking for a top out. I mainly boulder, but have started getting into top rope/ lead, and am wondering if I should get a second pair more oriented towards that, or if I should get something to address the heel hooking issues I have while bouldering and just use the vapors for that. I mostly climb on granite.Some models I was looking into were the instinct vsr (expensive) and the evolve geshido (cheap but apparently has durability issues). Any insight is appreciated.

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Anon06/22/26, 13:40No.264389

Back to moonboarding. I have to focus all of my energy on the 2024 set. Is anyone else having issues with it? Older sets were easier to progress on. It's always one move with a single project that just kills my forearms. Not due to crimps, but to weird positioning.

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Anon06/25/26, 16:08No.264607

cool rock

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Anon06/27/26, 21:46No.264828

>Struggling for the longest time on one boulder >Record myself during off hours at the gym >Study the recording >Get it done first try next session Seeing how fucked it looks from afar is really different from being on the wall I tell you what

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Anon06/28/26, 20:16No.264905

anyone else specifically get climbing shoes that are more niche or harder to get so you don't see other people wearing them? I know I'm autistic for that but I get bothered when I wear shoes that a lot of other people are wearing. And yes I only climb V5 how can you tell

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Anon06/28/26, 21:21No.264909

My real life will begin when I manage to climb 7A.

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Anon06/29/26, 10:31No.264946

>he hasn't made a last of his ideal foot shape and built his own shoes in their divine image you will never beat the plateau

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Anon06/29/26, 11:52No.264947

Climbing for the first time in Japan. The problems here are easily -2-3 grades where I come from. As a point of reference should I treat Japanese grading as 'where they should be'? Or just incredibly sandbagged? Anyone else care to share their experience?And yes I know grading is subjective and it doesn't matter and all that. It just helps to know where I stand when reading and discussing about climbing related stuff.

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Anon06/29/26, 16:36No.264957

kek imagine being an american and having to face the fact that all gyms in your glorious nation are featherbagged to shit couldn't be me btw it's funny how similar these grading discussions are to talk of chess rating comparisons between fide, uscf, chess.c*m and lichess

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Anon07/03/26, 17:18No.265229

How long does it take you guys to recover from moonboard fatigue? I moonboard usually once a week, but after 6 weeks I feel like I need to take a full blown deload. This past week I felt ridiculously strong, so I moonboarded Saturday. Then I wanted to practice a sequence on Tuesday. Even though I got 9 hours of sleep for all 3 days, and only did 15 minutes of actual work on the project, the following 10 days found my fingers, back, and hamstrings (God ESPECIALLY my hammies) feel ridiculously tired. I feel like I just got hit by a truck. Haven't moonboarded in almost 2 weeks because of it.When will my body adapt to it? It's the 2024 set.

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Anon07/05/26, 05:54No.265388

longshot but does anybody know what these grades mean in this jp guidebook? IV, VI+, etc. trying to figure out if this is aid climbing or easy terrain

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Anon07/07/26, 06:24No.265534

I found out 2 weeks ago Hooper's Beta made a comprehensive climber injury assessment form that is for free and nobody ever mentions it when people talk about finger injuries? I did the assessment for my finger injury, found their video about it and followed their rehab recommendation and in 2 weeks my finger feels so much better. A lot better than in past when I was just fumbling about with recovery. I think I can get back on track within a month instead of 2-3 months it took me in the past. This is a game changer for me. I am really injury prone

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Anon07/14/26, 18:39No.265970

Everyone talks about finger strength but what about toe strength? I took a small break and now not only I can't hold shit, I also can't stand on anything.

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Anon07/24/26, 00:01No.266302

Wasn't there a guy here who broke through their 20mm hang plateau? What did that guy do..?

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Anon08/01/26, 10:26No.266999

Hi, i'm considering taking up climbing (specifically bouldering) with zero experience My question is how much does it mess up your fingers? I play instruments and do model building/painting and fine cooking so I'd like to preserve mine as much as possible.

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Anon08/01/26, 10:51No.267000

I love City Bloc Leeds

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Anon08/01/26, 15:21No.267007

To really illustrate the differences

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Anon08/03/26, 12:20No.267085

V5 holds are kinds kicking my ass frfr, shit's so much worse than holds on V4s.

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Anon08/04/26, 05:06No.267123

newfag here, i am just getting into bouldering at a dinky little subtance recovery gym near me and good god their rental shoes are bad (understandably). i want my own now. i keep hearing conflicting ideas of what a good beginner shoe is. do i go with thick soles and neutral shape, ultimately accepting that i might outskill them? or should i accept slight discomfort so i can learn more precision footwork? I tried out some pairs at an REI and liked the scarpa arpia V's, which downsized much more nicely compared to others. thing is, i would kind of feel consumerist for dropping 180 after only like, 3 trips. sorry for the blog!

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Anon08/06/26, 11:24No.267377

would bouldering fix skinnyfat build? i find gyms extremely boring, and i do a lot of cardio, hiking. bouldering/climbing looks fun

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Anon08/08/26, 08:44No.267520

>1-5-8 first time at climbing gym https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huhm5SS0yZE God damn this is impressive. It's a big dude too, 92kg or something. Fills me with optimism that even a tall and heavy dude like me can one day get there. Just gotta keep on pulling and we all gonna make it bruhs.

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Anon08/18/26, 14:13No.268326

Ms. Skellington spooked up a 9b+(?) route

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Anon08/20/26, 22:37No.268483

i cloombed two days ago, should I cloomb again?

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Anon08/23/26, 13:47No.268627

god fucking dammit i slipped while warming up and my previous finger tweak that was starting to get better just got 10x worse i fucking hate myself

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Anon08/24/26, 13:22No.268701

Anyone here go to one of those dingy old chud gyms where every wall is a spray wall, routesetting means that a guy marked all the holds on a route with little ribbons, and grades are accurate to real rock? It's kinda good for practicing route reading fr.

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Anon08/25/26, 09:38No.268747

imagine spending dozens of hours chasing diminishing gains on a training board when there are thousands of beautiful 5.easy routes like this being climbed by some gumby straight off the couch. all that training is paying off, right?

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Anon08/30/26, 02:31No.269221

I wish I started climbing when I was 12

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Anon09/11/26, 09:30No.270265

I don't know if it counts as a project but I've been practicing aid climbing on a tree in my back yard to prepare for a bolt ladder on a route I want to climb (Monkey Face). I'm gonna make it up one way or another but I'd rather not put on a show. Planning to do it on Monday.

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