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Re: [shurafa] The V0 Dilema for New Climbers and its Effects on the Rest of Us!:
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MasterOfKungFu
Feb 23, 2011, 4:06 AM
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In my opinion, bouldering isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world, and I definitely see people being discouraged if they just try and jump into bouldering on rock. I was pretty athletic before I started climbing, but I started out on toprope, and then began bouldering inside. Recently I find that I can boulder V5 on rock and V7 on plastic after about one year of alot of bouldering.
For the less naturally athletic, I'd for sure tell them to start bouldering in the gym to get good base levels of strength, technique, and flexibility.
I have been on my school climbing team for 3 years and this year we got a good large batch of new climbers. The bouldering only gym had a better group rate than the indoor toprope gym so the team is exclusively bouldering this year.
After about a semester of bouldering, the new climbers have been doing fairly well. Most are up to V2 now, but some of the new female climbers are struggling because they aren't as strong as the male climbers physically, and haven't figured out their technique because they are so new to climbing. I think that they will get better as the year goes on, and once they figure out better technique.
(This post was edited by MasterOfKungFu on Feb 23, 2011, 4:12 AM)
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