climbing in a gym

[512OW]

Shheeeeiiiit. I'll start removing more footholds from projects...

[dhuff]

That's it! The ultimate training: routes with loose holds and no feet. That will get everyone pulling ten times harder in no time.

[ReachHigh]

Bring the choss indoors!

[Webbman09]

My main point is I never climb with the training mentality. I just climb to climb, and climbing should never be training. Every day you get on the wall it is a learning experience, but I still consider it climbing.

[Izzy]

My main point is I never climb with the training mentality. I just climb to climb, and climbing should never be training. Every day you get on the wall it is a learning experience, but I still consider it climbing.

Agreed, well said. However if you find a route outside that totally inspires you, say a wicked featureless slab climb, and you suck at slab climbing. Wouldn't climbing slab routes at the gym be an effective way of "training" to send the real thing. Isn't identifying your weaknesses, focusing on them and improving your abilities a key part of "training" in any endeavor?

I suck at steep jug hauls, so when I'm in the gym I spend most of my time climbing steep jug hauls and trying to improve. It's climbing, and it's fun, but it's definitely the most effective form of training, and that's the main reason I do it.

[charlie]

You can call it climbing, training, funning, or sexually harassing nappy headed, cross bred battle toads if you want. What does it matter?

[512OW]

Shut up charlie. It matters. Don't kid these gumbies...

[bcombs]

If everyone just climbed to climb for the fun of climbing the top of YDS would still be 5.10. Sack up, train, climb harder, repeat....

[ahab]

If everyone just climbed to climb for the fun of climbing the top of YDS would still be 5.10. Sack up, train, climb harder, repeat....

for some, the fun in climbing is pushing the grades.

...nappy headed, cross bred battle toads...

ran across a couple of those out at miguel's last fall.

[Webbman09]

Agreed, well said. However if you find a route outside that totally inspires you, say a wicked featureless slab climb, and you suck at slab climbing. Wouldn't climbing slab routes at the gym be an effective way of "training" to send the real thing. Isn't identifying your weaknesses, focusing on them and improving your abilities a key part of "training" in any endeavor?
I suck at steep jug hauls, so when I'm in the gym I spend most of my time climbing steep jug hauls and trying to improve. It's climbing, and it's fun, but it's definitely the most effective form of training, and that's the main reason I do it.

I would not disagree with you on that point, however as I said before to me it is climbing, even if I suck at that type of climbing. I have found for me if I call it training, I feel like I am at work and that is not what I want the experience to be.
I guess the key thing to think about is there are people who climb for competition/their job, and there are those of us who just love to climb.