why do you climb?

[itmeansgod]

Climbing is a uniquely amazing sport.

1. You can do a route that's really hard for you and know without a shadow of a doubt that you just spent the hardest 5 minutes or 10 minutes or whatever in your life.

2. You can do a move that's at your limit and know without a shadow of a doubt that you just spent the hardest 3 seconds in your life, and that you've never tried harder to do anything.

3. If you see a climb in a picture or a movie and it inspires you, you absolutely can just pack up your gear, get on a plane or in a car, go find it, and get on it, whether it's 5.15, V0, or A3. Any climber in the world can give himself the opportunity to experience any climb in the world, no matter the difficulty, and by and large, fairly safely.

4. There isn't another sport out there where the top levels are dominated by so many incredibly different body types, and ages. You need strong fingers to hold on to holds, but beyond that, you can heelhook, lock off, campus, dyno, reach, or whatever the fuck you want to get from hold to hold. So you can be short, slow twitch strong, fast twitch strong, have strong legs, or tall, and be just as effective as a climber as anyone else, even though you're doing everything in a completely different way. Look at Dave Graham, then look at Fred Nicole, then look at Daniel Woods, and tell me that this isn't a ridiculous and awesome sport.

I like climbing because it feels really really hard sometimes.

[anticlmber]

i only doubt that you can try aid climbs safely just by going and getting on them. all in all our...... whatever you want to call it, is fun. but it's just like the others.

[bentley]

I climb so that I can hang out with hot chicks, by hot chicks I mean Anticlimber and Flashmaster.
Of course there is Heratio....

[ynot]

I think the more important question is,why are all the hard climbers so twisted? what's up with that? do you want to go there too?

[itmeansgod]

basically I like climbing for all of the same reasons that I like giving birth to babies. Large petrified babies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithopedion

[krampus]

I heard Chuck Norris was a stone baby

[itmeansgod]

There's a stone baby on the wall at the Gym but every time I get there after Ho the two finger pocket on it's all greasy.

[tunedvwgti]

I climb for the crux move.

I climb because while backpacking, all of think of lately, is my last test I bombed on the physiology of the mitral valve and abnormal heart sounds; and while climbing all that I think of is the present moment, not the unfinished work I have to do.

That being said, If I had no more work to do, and didn't feel the need to free my head of the stress from normal life, would I still climb? Of Course I would! Because it is in the present, and God, I love climbing.

[dipsi]

god I love climbing

god I miss climbing!

[krampus]

don't worry dipsi, some day we will share the walls again.