My girlfriend wants to start climbing, but she wants to keep her hands soft and she doesn't want any calluses to develop. She wants to climb for mild exercise indoors and as part of physical therapy to help with overcoming muscle spasms from back surgery. She doesn't like yucky tape. Are there gloves out there for her? If so, where can I get some?

Oh bloody hell. Have you no sense of style?

yucky tape? Really?

My girlfriend wants to start climbing, but she wants to keep her hands soft and she doesn't want any calluses to develop. She wants to climb for mild exercise indoors and as part of physical therapy to help with overcoming muscle spasms from back surgery. She doesn't like yucky tape. Are there gloves out there for her? If so, where can I get some?

No she doesn't.

Curt

No she doesn't.
Curt

agreed but what aboot these...
http://www.madrockclimbing.com/thefinger.aspx

Bingo: Curt nails it. Bet she just wants to hang out with you dude. If you marry her, I'd bet she'll stop climbing (and probably a few other things she's doing) immediately.

At least that's what I usually hve seen in my 38 years of climbing.

OK. Sorry i don't want nasty callused up hands when i engage in sexual activity with my boyfriend.

OK. Sorry i don't want nasty callused up hands when i engage in sexual activity with my boyfriend. I live with him and we have a bouldering cave in our bedroom so it isnt about hanging out with him. I see him every day. He wants to help me fix my back problems and he is skilled at bouldering so why should i pay for yoga? or some other lame activity if i like climbing AND just dont want to have my hands look like a dudes. I just figured maybe someone would be helpful. if you dont know of anyway then dont waste mine and your time trying to sound cool.

" with my boyfriend"

"My girlfriend wants to start climbing,"

OK. Sorry i don't want nasty callused up hands when i engage in sexual activity with my boyfriend. I live with him and we have a bouldering cave in our bedroom so it isnt about hanging out with him. I see him every day. He wants to help me fix my back problems and he is skilled at bouldering so why should i pay for yoga? or some other lame activity if i like climbing AND just dont want to have my hands look like a dudes. I just figured maybe someone would be helpful. if you dont know of anyway then dont waste mine and your time trying to sound cool.

have you checked whether he'd prefer you to have man hands when you engage in sexual activity?

clearly he wants me as feminine as possible.

if you dont know of anyway then dont waste mine and your time trying to sound cool.

He sounds rather overbearing. Does he make you clean his dishes?

how can a man who wants to help me recover from awful muscle pain and spasming (in my back due to invasive surgery) through a fun physical activity be overbearing???? He's not overbearing in the least bit and I dont want my hands to look like tree bark and since i enjoy the sport, is it really that hard to understand???? are they any women on this site? Aside from a few helpful posts it seems like rock climbers on here are a bunch of tools.

And no we have a dishwasher asshole.

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Lots of women climb. I have seen them do it. If you don't enjoy it enough to do it with your hands, then you don't really enjoy it. I am a tool. That is why I have no friends. However, being an elitist tool is a whole lot of fun. You should try it sometime. It might help you lighten up.

Please answer my question. Who does the dishes?

Who loads it? Who takes the dishes out? I have a dishwasher too, and last time I checked, it did not load itself. However, I may be mistaken.

Seriously? What does that even mean?

You are.

OK. Sorry i don't want nasty callused up hands when i engage in sexual activity with my boyfriend. I live with him and we have a bouldering cave in our bedroom so it isnt about hanging out with him. I see him every day. He wants to help me fix my back problems and he is skilled at bouldering so why should i pay for yoga? or some other lame activity if i like climbing AND just dont want to have my hands look like a dudes. I just figured maybe someone would be helpful. if you dont know of anyway then dont waste mine and your time trying to sound cool.

It's probably not a good idea to try teaching her how to crack climb.

colatownkid's wife says:

My husband and I are both climbers and (gasp!) my hands have calluses. My solution is simple: I just use my mouth instead. I don't think your boyfriend will complain.

OK. Sorry i don't want nasty callused up hands when i engage in sexual activity with my boyfriend. I live with him and we have a bouldering cave in our bedroom so it isnt about hanging out with him. I see him every day. He wants to help me fix my back problems and he is skilled at bouldering so why should i pay for yoga? or some other lame activity if i like climbing AND just dont want to have my hands look like a dudes. I just figured maybe someone would be helpful. if you dont know of anyway then dont waste mine and your time trying to sound cool.

So you're saying that your boyfriend isn't actually a climber either.




In my last year of university I dated this guy I was totally in puppy love with. He would complain how rough my hands were sometimes. Anyway, before I graduated I broke up with him and then went on a roadtrip.

On said trip I met this guy who I shacked up with. We laughed at my old boyfriend. When we first arrived at J-Tree I ripped my hands to shreds. He said I should take a photo and send it to the ex (which I never did, the ex wasn't a bad guy, just bad for me).

I'm now married to the guy I met on that road trip. I think he loves me more for my rough hands.

So you're saying that your boyfriend isn't actually a climber either.
...

I'm now married to the guy I met on that road trip. I think he loves me more for my rough hands.

pay for yoga?

Bouldering will not help your back problems, will probably make it worse.. is your boyfriend a medical professional? i doubt it because he is wrong.

your question has been answered. you cannot climb and wear gloves. You can use various post-climb balms like Badger balm, JTree salve, ClimbOn

My girlfriend has been climbing for over 10 years.. the past 5-6 with me on very sharp rock and has never had issues with me.

just because you don't like the answer doesn't mean they are wrong.

Climbing helps my back problems.

But then, I don't have to load a dishwasher either.

Or wash the dishes.

Though I do occasionally have to wash my water bottle.

wtf?
Edit to add - what GG said.

Your boyfriend in university complained about your rough hands?

I have a very tender shaft.

Edited to add; what I meant to say was that if rough hands really bothered climbers, then climbers would never play with themselves, and I'm pretty sure that aside from me, lots of climbers play with themselves.

I just figured maybe someone would be helpful.

He wants to help me fix my back problems and he is skilled at bouldering so why should i pay for yoga?

No she doesn't.

Curt

You might just have to limit the amount of climbing you do. IF you are unwilling to sand off calouses.
Burts bees products do work well. so does cornhuskers lotion.
ok since you brought up sex not us.
use lots of lotion when you give him that hand job. or you could actually have intercourse. I seriously doubt you will get calouses there from climbing. or if you do lots of us might like to see a vid of how you actually acomplished that.
climb bareback oops I mean climb barehanded and wear nice soft gloves for the sex.
or if all else fails leave the light on during sex so he sees you your hands are not really a guys.
if you are going to continue climbing AND you are doing it at your own place. there is a spray on rubbery kind of stuff ment for tools NOT HIS TOOL MIND YOU! but pliers and such. that you could spray on the holds to protect your hands. heck it would probably increase both of your hang time on smaller holds.
hmmmm now that i think about it maybe I should try that spray on stuff my self for a bit more girth. on second thought go ahead and try it on him and let us know how that works out
The fact is unless you are grabing big jugs, gloves just do not mix with climbing and even on big jugs they are prone to wanting to slide off.
IF it is really him that does not want you to have gnarly hands AND you really want to climb. And he climbs a lot. Look him in the eye and tell him to suck it up, you put up with his gnarly hands.
What I have done in really cold weather is got a too small pair of jersey gloves. Taped them on at the wrist then taped the hell out of the gloves. it actually worked better than anything else I tried.(glove wise) meaning they only sucked real bad.
the actuall best thing is to sigh tape your hands. we have found a citrus based spray cleaner that smells real nice. and it will take off the glue residue with out hard scrubbing or harsh cleaners. did i mention it smells good too? just like oranges

Sepulker,

You could give these a try:

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fuck you. you havent been helpful i the least bit.

fuck you. you havent been helpful i the least bit.

HMMM i just had a thought( hey it didn't even hurt this time) while i would never try gloves to climb if I were actually climbing to climb as I have lost enough skill over the many years I was away from it and why limit myself even more! I would try those deepsea diving gloves before I coated a good set of holds in plastidip. they fit Very snugly people have to use talc powder to slide them of and on. I have watched racing rescue divers do emergency medical procedures while still wearing them so they HAVE to allow for good feeling and dexterity. HECK i might even try them my self so i can try to start climbing here in IL months ahead of when I was planing to get back to the crags

Great save! Thread was threatening to start sucking (and not in the good way colatown's wife does it) with all this...

johnwesely wrote:

starting to act like an adult

Oh wait, bonus points! You may have just succeeded in getting this moved to Campground, where any mention of a hot chick must be accompanied with pics.



Oh wait, are you hot?