Yay for your first time. Next time you go, ask someone to show you some stretches for your forearms. That will help.
When I started climbing, I was about 100 lbs. overweight. The only person I've ever pulled off the ground was someone who wasn't paying attention while lead belaying me. Top roping is much safer. You were top roping. Leading (called other things in other countries - someone help me out here) is where you are bringing the rope with you when you climb and clip it to the wall as you go. If you ever begin lead climbing, make sure that you are climbing with people who really know what they are doing. Being pulled off the ground as a lead belayer happens all the time even when there isn't much weight discrepancy due to physics and the amount of force that someone who falls exerts. (For my scientific brain, climbing and the physics of climbing is really fascinating.)
I'm glad your first experience went well. I found climbing to be very empowering.
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Date: 2010-06-13 06:11 pm (UTC)When I started climbing, I was about 100 lbs. overweight. The only person I've ever pulled off the ground was someone who wasn't paying attention while lead belaying me. Top roping is much safer. You were top roping. Leading (called other things in other countries - someone help me out here) is where you are bringing the rope with you when you climb and clip it to the wall as you go. If you ever begin lead climbing, make sure that you are climbing with people who really know what they are doing. Being pulled off the ground as a lead belayer happens all the time even when there isn't much weight discrepancy due to physics and the amount of force that someone who falls exerts. (For my scientific brain, climbing and the physics of climbing is really fascinating.)
I'm glad your first experience went well. I found climbing to be very empowering.