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So. Climbing.
I'm getting pretty good at climbing V0s at the north gym, if they're not too horribly inclined. (Muscle strength: needs some work.) If it's labeled a V0 and goes straight up and down a wall, I can do it, pretty much. So that's starting to feel reasonably satisfying, in that I can go try out a new V0 and have it down within a few attempts. Which is good!
But it also means I need to be moving on to V1 routes, because, hey, doing stuff I can handle is good practice for doing that level, but it doesn't really push me to the next, does it? And here I'm running into a problem, because I am falling off V1 routes like woah. And that's if I can start them in the first place; a lot of them have super-scrunched beginnings where I just can't get any leverage if I'm trying to hang off a mediocre hold with my feet half a foot away from my hands. (Some nice V0+s would be lovely, but they don't seem to set any... Sigh.)
I'm not quite sure how to address this. The V1s which don't have hideous starts and are on nice straight walls--of which there are maybe two in the gym--I can get a few holds up, so that's at least something I can work on, but clearly at some point I need to learn how to do hideous crunchy starts. And...well, "just try it repeatedly" isn't getting me any closer. Doing the same wrong technique several times in a row isn't going to teach me the right one, and while I can work out a lot of very basic tricks through "keep trying different things until one works", I'm kinda stumped here.
Maybe I should actually look for books on rock climbing. Presumably there's Dummy's Guide to or the equivalent out there somewhere.
I'm getting pretty good at climbing V0s at the north gym, if they're not too horribly inclined. (Muscle strength: needs some work.) If it's labeled a V0 and goes straight up and down a wall, I can do it, pretty much. So that's starting to feel reasonably satisfying, in that I can go try out a new V0 and have it down within a few attempts. Which is good!
But it also means I need to be moving on to V1 routes, because, hey, doing stuff I can handle is good practice for doing that level, but it doesn't really push me to the next, does it? And here I'm running into a problem, because I am falling off V1 routes like woah. And that's if I can start them in the first place; a lot of them have super-scrunched beginnings where I just can't get any leverage if I'm trying to hang off a mediocre hold with my feet half a foot away from my hands. (Some nice V0+s would be lovely, but they don't seem to set any... Sigh.)
I'm not quite sure how to address this. The V1s which don't have hideous starts and are on nice straight walls--of which there are maybe two in the gym--I can get a few holds up, so that's at least something I can work on, but clearly at some point I need to learn how to do hideous crunchy starts. And...well, "just try it repeatedly" isn't getting me any closer. Doing the same wrong technique several times in a row isn't going to teach me the right one, and while I can work out a lot of very basic tricks through "keep trying different things until one works", I'm kinda stumped here.
Maybe I should actually look for books on rock climbing. Presumably there's Dummy's Guide to or the equivalent out there somewhere.