Re: [edge] Still not Sick of kids
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Thanks for writing that edge and thank you for everything you have done to help indoor and outdoor climbing progress. I see your point about affecting the outdoor climbing with overcrowding. However, I don’t think it will have quite the impact like snowboarding had.
If you want to snowboard like they do in the Olympics then you have to go to a ski/snowboarding slope to do that. If climbing becomes an Olympic sport and someone wants to climb like them then you will need to go to a gym and not necessarily go outdoors.
I don’t doubt that when climbing becomes an Olympic sport gyms around the world will be full of little kids talking about numbers more than actually climbing. However, there will still be a select few kids that are training like they do today.
Those will be the kids that also are climbing consistently outside and eventually they will be the ones that make it to the Olympics.
The Olympics will significantly increase the traffic in climbing gyms. I am still not convinced that it will significantly increase the traffic in the areas where the more experienced climbers on this board climb.
Places like Pilot Mountain near where I live will almost certainly be overcrowded with kids playing loud music. However, it is like that today. I doubt some of the trad climbing places like Moores Wall a few miles down the road will have any more traffic than they do now. The traffic in the bouldering areas in those places might increase. However, I doubt the roped sections will see more people than they do now.
(This post was edited by JasonsDrivingForce on Apr 6, 2012, 12:53 PM)
