Goal of Climbing

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What is your primary reason for going climbing?

Relieve stress
14
39%
Redpoint projects
9
25%
Hang with friends (it's not about the climbing)
4
11%
Get some exercise
0
No votes
Hangdog and spray.
0
No votes
Onsight hard stuff
1
3%
Toprope the same climb 15 times a season
0
No votes
Get in shape, cause that is always my excuse for climbing like crap.
3
8%
Smoke a blunt, get drunk, and hit on the hotties.
5
14%
 
Total votes: 36

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pigsteak
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Goal of Climbing

Post by pigsteak »

What is your primary reason for going to the crag? (not indoor climbing) My guess is it has very little to do with actual climbing, and you could get these needs fulfilled in many other ways too.
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.
Paul3eb
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Post by Paul3eb »

you don't have an option for "simply having fun"..
and great loves will one day have to part -smashing pumpkins
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Post by Paul3eb »

and your post title and question are two very different things.. my primary reason and my goals aren't the same. and yes, my primary reason could be fulfilled in many other ways but there are tons of secondary reasons i go and climbing is the best way to get them all together in one nice little neat duty-free package.
and great loves will one day have to part -smashing pumpkins
lordjim_2001
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Post by lordjim_2001 »

That does it. My goal for climbing is now to send harder that piggie so I can tell him that he's not a "real" climber and shut the fuck up!
Screw you guys. I'm going bowling.
Stewy911
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Post by Stewy911 »

To enjoy Miguels pizza after a long day of extremely hard climbing (5.0-5.5).
Who Me? I gotta hitch hike god damn 18 miles to get a god damn beer......that's bullshit.
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pigsteak
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Post by pigsteak »

why do you guys have to make it so diificult?

lordjim, ya gotta it all wrong brah...you are what ails this country, brah..once you climb 5.12, you join the ranks of a real climber. you don't bump any one else off the list..you just get to make the rulez, brah. peace.
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.
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SCIN
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Post by SCIN »

I love onsiting but my primary reason for climbing is to redpoint hard lines. I want to be a solid 5.13 climber. That means bagging at least one 5.13 a week within a handful of tries.
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pigsteak
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Post by pigsteak »

I'm with you SCIN...I long for the day when I can call myself a solid 5.13 climber. It will feel like all the determined training has paid off. And if it never comes, the rewards of pushing myself were still plentiful.
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.
J-Rock
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Post by J-Rock »

I just like to get outside and climb...
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Wes
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Post by Wes »

My goal is to flash my friends' projects at will, downrating and downspraying as I go, yet remaining humble. Or something like that.

Wes
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Po, the kung fu panda
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