• Knusper@feddit.de
    3·
    9 months ago

    I always hated that. I grew up with a big hazelnut bush/tree next to our house, where it was usually more useful to pull yourself up than to try to find good footing.

    And then I think, I’ve been climbing my whole life, I’ll visit a climbing gym, and then they’re like, oh no, not that kind of climbing. That would be using muscles, which is famously unpopular in gyms.

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      13·
      9 months ago

      Stand for 10 minutes.

      Now dead hang for 1 min.

      Surprise, your legs muscles are much bigger and much more powerful than your arms at defying gravity.

      • mvirts@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        I think the disconnect is, some go to the climbing gym to climb, others go to work out.

        • Knusper@feddit.de
          4·
          9 months ago

          Well, in my particular case, I wouldn’t go for the workout. I just find the rock-type climbing frustrating and relatively boring, while I find the tree-type climbing fun. So, even if I can only manage 1 minute of tree-type climbing at a time, that would be a sport, I’d actually enjoy doing.

            • Knusper@feddit.de
              1·
              9 months ago

              Never heard of those before, I don’t think. Although, a colleague recently shared pictures of a gym around here, which looks somewhat similar. Yeah, I might have to check out, if they have a more varied climbing offering.

              • mvirts@lemmy.world
                2·
                9 months ago

                I’ve been to ones that have basically adult jungle gym stuff. I’m in the US and there are a few modeled after American ninja warrior the TV show

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      9 months ago

      “I always hated that. I grew up doing this task and when I tried to do a similar but not the same task with people who know what they’re doing they told me I was doing it wrong.”

      • Knusper@feddit.de
        1·
        9 months ago

        Bro, if you’re gonna mock me, you shouldn’t assume that I actually visited a gym. Obviously, I did not. I was speaking figuratively.

        I’ve encountered these rock climbing walls on excursions and such, so I know that I hate them, and I know that climbing gyms are full of them.

        All I’m saying is that if they had tree-like climbing opportunities or at least rock-climbing walls with rocks you can actually grip, then that could get me to actually visit a gym.
        I’m just disappointed that climbing is the only sport I really enjoy and even the fucking climbing gym still isn’t for me.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          9 months ago

          My dude, you should definitely go visit a climbing gym because you’ve got no idea what you’re talking about if you think they don’t have problems with grips you can hold onto.

          • Knusper@feddit.de
            1·
            9 months ago

            Alright, my guy, thanks for the advice. I don’t know why we’re being so aggressive to each other. I don’t think, there’s that many climbing gyms around here and what I’ve seen of the one we do have, it looked like grips are exclusively for children, but I guess, I should inform myself more.