Friday glee is feeling old

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.

It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big. Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.

N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.

To enhance this week's glee: I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but Statement of Youth: The Birth of British Sport Climbing should be epic (it's a full-length film, available free thanks to UKClimbing.com and the BMC).

Comments

[language_escapes]

I just joined this comm, so I hope it's okay to post? My husband and I took an intro course a few weeks back that gave us two weeks of free climbing and equipment rental. We really liked climbing, and we ended up buying our own gear (we top rope) and two days ago we ended up purchasing an annual membership to the climbing gym so we could climb anytime. I'm really excited - I've never enjoyed anything physical before, but I love climbing!

[rydra_wong]

It's extremely okay to post -- hi and welcome!

I'm really excited - I've never enjoyed anything physical before, but I love climbing!

Yes, same for me when I started -- I was Bad At Games at school and had avoided anything resembling sports with fear and loathing for a couple of decades (okay, I did a bit of yoga and walked, but nothing else). And then I fell in love with climbing.

And I've met a lot of other climbers who've had similar experiences.

[ivy]

Top roping is super fun! Congratulations on discovering something you love!

[rydra_wong]

Also, feel free to start a new post if you'd like to introduce yourself! I'm sure people will be happy to spam you with tips and resources (or film recs or book recs or whatever you'd like).

[wpadmirer]

There has been no climbing in my life. Though climbing is affecting my work, in the sense of it's very hard for me to get my fingerprints to register on the damn time clock. Why? Because when I do climb, 2 weeks later (almost to the day) my fingertips peel.

I have to use my thumbs because they don't peel much.

[rydra_wong]

Yes, a while back a company went round trying to market biometric entry systems to climbing walls (so if you were a member you could sign in using a fingerprint sensor), and funnily enough it didn't take off ...

[wpadmirer]

HA!