If you Google "fingerboard mounting", there are lots of guides to different ways of fixing it over a doorway with minimal structural damage.
Good tip, will do. Sometimes I wish I owned this house and didn't have to worry about leaving holes in doorframes and the like.
Talking of structural damage, you probably know this already but be careful and don't overdo it -- finger tendons take a long time to strengthen, and it's easy to over-stress them.
Oh, yeah. I'm really careful with my fingers. Even more careful now - last week I strained two middle fingers because there's a grip on that one 6er route at our gym, where you can just fit your fingers, and it's just out of my reach so I have to jump a little and turns out my fingers aren't strong enough for that kind of thing yet, where they have to abruptly hold the entire body weight even for a little moment. It's a little frustrating because most of the 6er routes I tried have problems like that are difficult for smaller people, and then you see the taller folks just grab the things with no problem. I decided to avoid those routes for another couple months until my fingers are stronger and I improved my general technique.
I've gone climbing twice since and picked only the easiest routes to go easy on the fingers for a while, and that was fun too. An easy route becomes interesting again if climbed three times in a row, I found.
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Date: 2011-01-14 11:45 am (UTC)Good tip, will do. Sometimes I wish I owned this house and didn't have to worry about leaving holes in doorframes and the like.
Talking of structural damage, you probably know this already but be careful and don't overdo it -- finger tendons take a long time to strengthen, and it's easy to over-stress them.
Oh, yeah. I'm really careful with my fingers. Even more careful now - last week I strained two middle fingers because there's a grip on that one 6er route at our gym, where you can just fit your fingers, and it's just out of my reach so I have to jump a little and turns out my fingers aren't strong enough for that kind of thing yet, where they have to abruptly hold the entire body weight even for a little moment. It's a little frustrating because most of the 6er routes I tried have problems like that are difficult for smaller people, and then you see the taller folks just grab the things with no problem. I decided to avoid those routes for another couple months until my fingers are stronger and I improved my general technique.
I've gone climbing twice since and picked only the easiest routes to go easy on the fingers for a while, and that was fun too. An easy route becomes interesting again if climbed three times in a row, I found.