#rock climber

[bedupolker]

Climb time! Feat. @bowelfly's magnificent weevzard, Quercus

#weevil #wizard #rock climber #insect #bug people #arthropod #my art

[like-this-post-if-you]

Like this post if you've ever gone rock climbing

#rock climbing #rock climber #sports #physical activity #climbing #moutain climbing #likes

[mactiir]

New set at the climbing gym today. The problems are new enough they don't have grades yet so me and partner are just throwing ourselves at whatever looks doable. There's this tallish slab problem with a HUGE muscly move up to the end hold but I'm looking at it like. Yeah, I can do it. Which, if I think I can do it with some practice, usually means it's no higher than a v4-v5 (intermediate range, for non climbers). Girl comes over to ask what grade we think it is, we tell her v4-ish. She can't do it either. Then her boyfriend comes over and flashes the problem with the BIGGEST, SHAKIEST power move accompanied by the loudest power yell I have ever heard. Then he hops down and goes "that's not a v4, that's at LEAST a v6 or v7 (start of advanced ranges), especially at this gym because their setting is so soft." And we were like, ok sure dude, but I'm still eyeing this problem like "...but I could do it though?" And granted I'm good at slab, but I'm not like. V6 good at slab.

Anyway, I looked that problem up on my gym's app when I got home and it's a... drumroll please... v3 (aka lower intermediate/tough beginner range).

Moral of the story: the confident power shouting white man at your climbing gym in fact does NOT know everything, even if he thinks he does, but hey, that might have actually felt like a v6 to him the same way it felt like a v4 to me. Similarly, my v3 might feel like a v5 to my partner, who is nine inches shorter than me, or vice versa, because she is much stronger. Grades are ONE PERSON'S thoughts on how hard something is -- almost always the setter. They don't reflect the varieties of skills, body types, and sheer motherfucking audacity you will encounter in a group of climbers. You're way better off listening to your body and taking advice from people with skill sets and body types like yours than letting your confidence be dictated by beta-spraying randos at the gym OR routesetters themselves.

#Also #grades are trash and climb what makes you happy #love being at the level where i am getting mansplained to constantly #but not at a high enough level to know how to correct them. #rock climbing #rock climber #Climbing #bouldering #Storytime #Random #personal

[dailylowqualitycats]

Day 170

Rock climbing cat

His name is Sorbet

#cats of tumblr #poorly drawn cats #daily cats #low quality #cute cats #funny cats #cats #artists on tumblr #cat #orange cat #rock #rock climber #the rock #climber #the rock climber #climbing #rock climbing #rocks #sorbet

[vickyller]

My second home 🖤

#me #chile #climber #climbing #rock climber #bouldering #boulder #chilean

[mpmountainworks]

new climb with pride stickers now available //may ‘23

#climbing #rock climbing #rock climber #stickers #bouldering #pride #pride month

[just-anka]

I have Monday (yesterday) and Tuesday off work this week to compensate for working pretty much all the public holidays this year so far, which meant I could spend the "regular" part of the weekend just recovering a bit and getting some life admin done and relaxing, without feeling sad about not getting to do anything fun - much needed. And then yesterday I went climbing with Ila and had another really good day! I feel so good climbing at the moment, both in the gym and on rock. Two years ago I had a summer of getting really strong and feeling amazing in the gym but almost never got to get out on rock that year, and before that I last felt like this in Sheffield when I first started climbing, so this is pretty amazing. I'm slowly working my way back into leading on rock - I always lead in the gym but with how little actual rock climbing I've done since moving here I had gotten so scared and developed a mental block about it. But it looks like 2023 is the year of getting back into climbing fully and I couldn't be happier about it 😍 plus getting time with my lovely friend, in a beautiful place getting to see somewhere new (we tried out a new crag in an area that's pretty much unknown to me) - everything together made for a pretty special day 💙

#personal #me #mine #climbing #rockclimbing #rock climbing #outdoor climbing #gym climbing #indoor climbing #switzerland #rocks #girls who climb #view #rock climber #climber #summer 2023 #2023 #i #friends

[cinnamon-does-wacky-shit]

Meet pamela parker, aka the alpine spider. She was bitten by a radioactive spider when dealing with an intense climb, And despite The bite, finished the climb. Her best friend and belay partner, gwen stacy died from pamela letting go of the slack at the wrong time when belaying gwen amidst a fight with a villain. Now she is her universes one and only spider woman

#Rock climbing #rock climber #spider man #spider woman #spider person #spider sona #spidersona #spiderverse oc #into the spider verse #across the spiderverse #beyond the spiderverse #spiderverse #art #drawing #digital art

[cyberr-v0id]

I’m going climbing (among other things) later today for the first time in a while, but my back is really quite painful, and I only woke up twenty four minutes ago. I can’t even tell only about it, so it’s up to you to remember my pain tumblr

#cyberr speaks #back pain #climbing #climb #climber #rock climber #rock climbing #pain

[bedupolker]

Friends who belay together, stay together

#bug people #anthro #joshua tree #wilderness #rock climber #my art

[averagehighlife]

Ran into my heroes today. These guys are the reason I pour my heart and soul into rock climbing and getting to meet them in person was fucking surreal.

#me #climbing #climb on #rock climbing #climber #bouldering #mine #boulder #climb #rock climber #alex honnold #tommy caldwell #heroes

[high-quality-tiktoks]

🐇

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #rock climbing #rock climber #rock climbers #wtf #nekaia

[mactiir]

Random body fun fact time:

Some of you might already know about the palmaris longus muscle, which is a muscle in the wrist that is absent in some people (I have it in one arm but not the other). You can see if you have it by touching your pinky to your thumb and then bending your wrist in slightly -- if you have it, it'll pop up against the skin. I've heard mixed things about the effect of this muscle on grip strength, and the consensus seems to be that it's vestigial and doesn't matter. For most of my life I've regarded the existence of this muscle as a useless curiosity, just one of those fun little genetic variance things you can compare with your friends, right along with attached earlobes and the ability to curl your tongue.

Anyway like every millenial and their dogs I'm a rock climber. Ever since I started, I have had a marked preference for gripping and pulling on my left hand, despite being, like the majority of people, right handed. At first I figured this was because of a lingering shoulder injury on my right side, but even after years of strengthening and rehabbing that shoulder, every grip strength test shows, numerically, that my left hand is about 10-15% stronger than my right for the purposes of just like, grabbing things real hard.

Well. Guess which arm is missing a whole muscle? Yep -- my right hand is the one WITHOUT the palmaris longus, and ol' lefty has it solidly in place. (Interestingly, my left hand is also the one that shows symptoms of carpal tunnel if I play too many video games, which is apparently also something that happens when that muscle gets inflamed). So there's a fun little piece of anecdotal evidence for ya.

#Palmaris longus muscle #Rock climbing #Rock climber #Climbing #Personal #Anecdote #anatomy

[higherentity]

#Sasha DiGiulian #climber #boulderer #sporty girls #rock climber #sasha

[vickyller]

🖤

#climber #rock climbing #rock climber #climbing #rock climb #escalada #chile #Chilean #escaladora #lead climbing

[mpmountainworks]

new low gravity day rock climbing stickers in dark teal now available ✨ link in bio

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #outdoors #rock climbing #rock climber #climbing shoes #sticker #stickers #sticker shop #space