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Any anons in to rock climbing?
Fucking awesome sport is fucking awesome.
>> Anonymous
George, Kramer and Tony went rock climbing......it didn't work out so well for Tony....
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It appears that rock climbing is foreign to /sp/. I officially declare tuesday as rock climbing tuesday, in hopes of gathering more rock climbing anons together so that we may converse.
>> Anonymous
Awesome sport? Who won last week's rock-climbing match? Oh, no one? Guess it's not a sport.
>> Anonymous
>>437619

Trolled.
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>>437619
That's because you don't fuckin watch rock climbing, nigger. You go get up off your ass and do it yourself. How the fuck is it fun/enjoyable to sit on your ass for 3 hours each weekend, staring at a fuckin TV, watching other people play sports?
>> Anonymous
>>437636
welcome to /sp/

also, /fit/ is that way ---->
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Time to put on your thinking caps, anons. I will now teach you what "free" climbing is.

IT'S NOT FUCKING THE SAME THING AS FREE SOLOING.

Goddamn, I hate it when people ask me if I "free" climb. Free climbing means using only your body to get up the rock, versus aid climbing in which you use tools and ladders and shit to get up the rockface. There is still protection (ropes, anchors) involved. SOLOING is climbing by yourself, without protection. The next time I hear some stupid bitch say that I'm "free climbing" if I happen to be soloing (or even fucking worse, bouldering), I'm going to fucking jump the fuck off the rock/building (lol buildering) I'm on and fucking stomp the shit out of her head on the nearest curb.
/RAGE

picture related, is free soloing
>> Anonymous
>>437645

/fit/ is for faggot dieters and acne fatasses, not people who actually go out and do shit.
>> Anonymous
>>437650

Too bad no one cares enough to learn the differences.
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>>437645
I thought that climbing would better go in /sp/, being a sport and all. If this thread ends up failing, I think I might go try my luck in /fit/.

>>437650(CONT)
pic related, is free climbing. note the rope trailing behind him
>> Anonymous
>>437600
/fit/
>> Anonymous
There needs to be a forum for people who actually do stuff so we can leave armchair faggots to /sp/
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>>437657
The next dumb bitch that says the word "free climbing" around me is going to care about the difference when I'm done :/

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A more sane version of free soloing (one that involves you not dying if you happen to fall) is deep water soloing (pic related, also>>437636). Basically, free soloing over water. Fun stuff, but I'll be damned if I could keep my hands/chalk bag dry when I went DWS this summer :(
>> Anonymous
Dedicated troll is dedicated.

Seriously, no one is taking the bait. Try again next week.
>> Anonymous
>>437669

While most people here are fat faggots who do nothing (see RMD) there are a few that actually do some sort of physical activity. Rockclimbing is not one of them.
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>>437669
Or we could just take over /sp/ for ourselves :).

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Bouldering, which I mentioned earlier, is climbing w/o ropes/protection ala soloing (unless you count crash pads and/or spotters), except the routes/problems will be short, and generally below 15 feet tall. If you fall while bouldering, you are much less likely to die, unless you are doing some really high-ball shit. Still dangerous though, even with crash pads. I broke my ankle bouldering a couple months ago. Shitsux :/
pic related, as usual. you can see his crashpads down below him
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>>437674
Goddamn, I swear I'm not a troll.
>>437679
Hmm, I guess that's sort of a contribution to my thread. I'd try climbing that if it was local, but it'd probably be slimey and chossy and shit.

(not ranting anymore, just informing /sp/ about rock climbing :) )
Indoor rock climbing has taken off in the last 20 or 30 years or so. Gyms can be found in most cities, sometimes multiple gyms, which is great for in the winter, or if you happen to be in an area with limited outdoor climbing (fucking texas...).
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This is the most badass fucking "playground" I have ever seen. If this were at a local park/school, people would think I was a pedo I'd be on that thing so much. Pic is in india or china or some shit, can't remember.
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My thread has gotten kind of lonely now that the trolls and people calling me a troll have left. Oh well, I trudge on nevertheless.

Some chick freesoloing. I read that she died a year or two ago in an avalanche. I was like, WTF, can't rockclimb in the snow, silly girl. (Mixed climbing doesn't count. If you have a big ass pick axe and spikes in your shoes and shit, that's fucking cheating, no two ways around it).
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I know that there has to be SOMEONE besides me who rock climbs on 4chan. Any day now...

Random dude free soloing. I like freesoloing/DWS because you don't have all that gear weighing you down. Also, fuckshit adrenaline rush. Pull on shoes, grab chalk bag, and go :)
>> Anonymous
Unfortunately here in Florida high elevation...300 ft lol
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'Course, anytime I want to push my limits, I will use pro (protection). A rack of quickdraws isn't that much to drag up the wall, I suppose, though the rope is kind of annoying at times (especially if my dumbass belayer isn't paying attention, and stops feeding me slack while I'm trying to stand up on some sketchy edge, reaching up for a shitstain of a nubbin. FUCK, SLACK, NIGGER.)

pic related, is a quickdraw. You might notice that there is a bolt in the rock; that is placed there by the route setter, and is used in sport climbing. Trad (traditional) climbing doesn't have any of these pre-placed bolts, so you have to place all your own pro (think, metal wedges shoved in to cracks in the rock).
>> Anonymous
quit talking to yourself faggot
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>>437725
I know what you mean. Where I'm at in texas, elevation is about 400 feet.
Also, lol, saw one of my own posts and thought somebody had contributed. Was like, "FUCK YEAH. Ohwai- shit".

The quickdraw is just the part hanging down off the bolt (basically, two biners with a bit of webbing in between them). When you (sport) lead climb, you clip your own quickdraws to these bolts, then clip your rope to that. That way, if you fall, you will only fall to the last draw that you clipped, instead of all the way to the bottom. In this pic you can see a bolt a bit above the dude, and a quickdraw clipped to his harness (peeking out beside his chalkbag).
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>>437740
Then you talk to me.

Pic is of a nice indoor bouldering wall. The tape marks different routes, and each route will be marked at it's start with a grade. In the US, the V (Vermin, IIRC?) scale is used for bouldering (V-0, V-1, etc, all the way up to V-16 or so). The Yosemite decimal system (YDS) is used for route climbing (toprope/lead), which is basically 5 point something. 5.5 is easy, and it goes up to 5.14 or 15. After 5.10, though, it breaks down further in to letter grades, from a to d, so going from a 5.8 to a 5.9 is the same as going from a 5.10d to a 5.11a, or a 5.11a to a 5.11b (in terms of how much harder the route is).
>> Anonymous
sage
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Good news to those tired of me; I'm running out of pictures.

Toproping is a type of climbing in which you don't clip in to quickdraws as you climb up - the rope is already anchored at the top of the route. It is what most beginners start with, as you don't have to worry about anything but climbing. It's also safer, and if you fall, you will only fall a few feet, versus lead climbing, in which you could fall quite a ways (as an example, if you are 6 feet above your last clip, and pull up 2 feet of slack to clip, and then fall before you clip, you will fall 6 feet to your last clip, plus 6 more feet (because you had to have that much slack out to be that far above the last clip... if that makes sense), plus 2 more feet for the slack you pulled out to clip, plus any stretch in the rope. That's 14 feet, not counting stretch, and that's also assuming you have a perfect belayer. In real life, that fall would probably be 16 feet at least.)
This guy is demonstrating some sort of route setting technique. I dunno what he's doing, but when I set routes, it's normally from just messing around while bouldering and stumbling upon a cool sequence of moves.
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>>437759
You missed

I always thought these time-lapse-ish photos were cool, you can see how he progresses through the climb. I am out of shit to talk about, and this is the last picture in my "climbing tuesday" folder, so I guess I'm done. Better luck next time with your sage, fag.
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Whoops, I lied, I found another cool pic.
So, /sp/ is seriously just a bunch of lazy ass armchair fags? (to quote anon from earlier). You'll have to forgive me if I sound a little naive, I usually spend my time with the gents in /r9k/.

Anyway, to reiterate, TUESDAY IS ROCK CLIMBING DAY. see you next tuesday, /sp/ortsfags, maybe i'll have better luck next time.
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sage
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>>437784
Hey, you're getting better at it. Shoot at everything, and somethings bound to hit, right?

K, I'm serious this time, last one. I've never been caught/reported-on while buildering, but I wonder how the talk with the LEO would go down if I do ever get caught. "LOL, SORRY OFFICER, MY CAT WAS STUCK UP THERE"
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Wow, thread has not only stayed alive, but is only on page 5.
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Here's some dumb bitch trying to stand up on a gaston, which she should be underclinging.
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This is toproping that I mentioned earlier. Climber just climbs, and instead of feeding out slack to the climber as they go up, the belayer will take up slack. The thing about toproping is, you have to be able to get to the top to put up the rope (if you are climbing outdoors). That means you either need a back way up, or someone has to lead or solo up and set up the anchor.
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Here's some multipitch climbing. I haven't done that yet, because I don't do any trad (yet), and multipitch sport climbs are almost non-existent, unless you want to have each "pitch" be 20 feet or so... :/
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This is a rack of trad climbing gear. There are basically two types of trad pro, as I understand it. Passive pro, which doesn't move, like the nuts and hexes on the left, and active pro, like the cams on the right. Active pro works via a spring type thing, which pushes the two arms out, so that it stays in the crack better I suppose (maybe if there's not as much of a lip/indentation for the pro to grab on to?).
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This is a rock tower thing in tasmania that looks amazing to climb. I don't know how many routes are on it (or could be on it, heh, it's not that big), but "the free route" is 5.12b, so not too hard, but is a bitch sketchy at times (you have to fall back on some old bolts, that don't even have hangers...?).
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This dude has quite a few spotters under him. Must be doing a hard problem or something
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>>438390
Now that I look at the picture closely, I guess that's just two people (that are visible, anyway).

The guy in this pic is fuckin killing his hands on that crimp. I suck at open-handing shit like that, but I at least try to keep my first knuckles somewhat straight. Goddamn.

Well, I'm hungry as shit, so, as the Gods say, "brb, soup".
>> Anonymous
ITT: Ass spelunker talks to self.