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disobey_gravityThe 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: Alizee Dufraisse on the first female ascent of La Reina Mora, 8c+/9a.
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: Alizee Dufraisse on the first female ascent of La Reina Mora, 8c+/9a.
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Date: 2012-03-10 07:59 am (UTC)And I need to re-read it and put more of it into practice. It's one of those devastatingly simple little books that will tell you to work on exactly the things you sort-of knew you needed to work on but were avoiding. Damn.
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Date: 2012-03-10 11:07 am (UTC)I've been climbing entirely without theoretical approach so far because I figured climbing is the best training there is and I've been making slow but steady progress, but now, while I haven't reached a plateau yet I can already see it looming ahead. Like, everything up to 7+ is a-ok but to get to 8- I'd need a minor miracle... like growing ten centimeters while losing ten pounds. I'm very curious if the book offers another alternative.
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Date: 2012-03-10 02:18 pm (UTC)"Climbing is the best training for climbing" is true in so far as when people ask "Should I drop one of my climbing sessions and lift weights/do yoga/whatever instead to get stronger/more flexible/whatever?" the answer is always "No, you'll get most improvement in your climbing from spending the time actually climbing." Not that yoga/weights etc. can't be useful on the side, when you're climbing as much as your body can handle -- just never instead of.
But you can definitely improve by consciously learning movement technique. And once you've hit a certain point, it can definitely pay to make some of your climbing time into "climbing training" -- whether that's technique practice, training power-endurance, or whatever. Still climbing, just doing it in a way that focuses on and trains particular apects.
I am not very good at this, which is why I need to re-read 9 out of 10 yet again.
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Date: 2012-03-09 01:54 pm (UTC)There's got to be a joke about breathing in white powders to stage off withdrawal here somewhere...
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Date: 2012-03-09 05:17 pm (UTC)And there is always the possibility of bouldering, of course ...
*ducks and runs*
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