I just feel that I need to point out how lame it is to "sign" your posts with your sign on name.

I somehow doubt your name is Ido.

what's a jaffle?

or "gear a beer"?

I have taken people out from the gym who claim to climb 12+. They could not follow 9 outside. They had a very difficult time staying on routes (no tape… ,hahah) and they were shaking once they got above 50 feet high or so (mental fucking breakdowns). They burnt out quick, tried to power through all the moves, over gripped everything, had a hard resting on holds to remove gear, couldn’t smear worth of shit, and had very poor footwork in gen. I have also taken people inside to a gym who learned outside. They lead any route they wanted fearlessly. Their endurance was astronomical compared to the local jocks ,( jock : “my forearms are pumped”) hahaha lol… jump to the blue floor...

I don't get it, there's always all these people on this site talking crap about gym climbing. Me personal I love it you get a good climbing specific workout in a short time little hassle with gear a beer and maybe a jaffle, I'll be a happy man. So why talk thrash on gym climbing? All climbers I know (including guys who have done serious ice and trad and FA's and the whole shebang) enjoy the gym as well as climbing outdoors, they're a different beast of course but they're both fun. So do you guys just need to maintain your badass outdoor dude image? Or are you weak old traddy's who can't crank in the gym?

Discuss,

Cheers Ido

I will be neither reading nor posting to this thread.


Best Wishes,

Fuckall Gymrats

I just feel that I need to point out how well practiced it is to sign your posts with your real name .

No one runs a marathon in a gym.

I know someone who will remain nameless. This certain person claims to be a lead climber(ok I know a few) but only in the gym. When the person I am thinking of goes outside, its always a top rope, even if they have people that can lead it, just because someone has never done that route before.

The gym blows dude, just give it up already. No one dies in a gym, but plenty of people do outside. Nothing is better inside, lets see the things that are enhanced by outside, tennis, baseball, football, skateboarding, soccer, sex, barbecues, paintball, drinking a beer, shooting small animals with a rifle a cleaning rod and blanks. Everything is better outside.

Still too hot to climb at Frog?

When I started climbing outside I was climbing 5.11s after a few trys, and I had only climbed a handful of 11a's in the gym after serious projecting.

Just longing for my first Aussie winter to arrive they're supposed to be dry and a nice temperature.

Cheers Ido

It's done all the time around here or at least initials. It's a little redundant to sign on with a clearly visible name and to think you just added something by signing the same name.

For example, lets say mad_dick_lollipop_avenger7 wants new shoes so he writes;

Hey guys my shoez are worn lol, I need new ones, my big toenail turned yellow lolz. I just want to climb 5.13 in my first year, wut should I buy?

Thanx,
Maddick Lollipop Avenger VII


Or

Hey guys, I want new shoes. Any suggestions?

Thank,
Frank


Both are stupid but only one makes me want to kill myself so I can haunt the SOB for eternity and look at his sister in the shower.

I hope you see the difference.

Not really, it's been overcast a lot so I've spend a couple of days climbing there already and it is gorgeous. Unfortunately I do not have a lot of experience leading trad and have not yet done so at frog, witches cauldron would be great. Oh and we do leave Brisbane at five to go there... But now it's raining like crazy and my trip to slider this weekend might be canceled and I'd end up in the gym instead. Just longing for my first Aussie winter to arrive they're supposed to be dry and a nice temperature.

Cheers Ido