Why Do Some Climbers HATE Bouldering?

Bouldering is awesome, trad climbers are just jealous because they're weak and fall on V2.

But in all seriousness I don't really get why people rag on bouldering. I don't like trad climbing or sport climbing and it's not because I'm bad at either, I just like the difficulty and short bursts of intensity that bouldering offers. I don't care if someone likes trad climbing or sport climbing; to each their own. It's all about fun anyways and at the end of the day we're all climbing on rocks, no matter how big they are...

Don't be a purist. Just try to have fun and not ruin other people's fun.

I dont think people hate it as much as they love to hate on it ... gives ya something to bitch about to pass the time.

Jake Jones wrote:

Fixed it for you.

Wait, I've never met a trad climber who could climb V3 have you? ;)

Jake Jones wrote:

Maybe you're right Ken.  I get spit off V3 now and again. ;)

No worries, so do I!

as you get older you get smarter and realize that tendons only have so much life  and a finite number of climbs in them. Also its not so easy to jump off of things with old knees. I save the tendons for real climbs.

i talk a lot of shit on bouldering/boulderers

i dont do it cause i actually think bouldering is stupid. I do it because its kind of low hanging fruit...its easy to make fun of. stuff like the fact that your foot mightt touch the ground to ruin the send and how contrived a lot of the problems are (think grandma peabody, etc) its kind of funny to me. its easy too easy. I think boulderers bring it on themselves a little because they're the biggest  "Bros " of the climbing world. I also always joke that bouldering is the crossfit of the climbing world.

but Im also primarily a trad climber. we're pretentious, elitist, argue about whether a fixed piton is more "ethical" than a bolt, and get into childish bolt chopping wars in Joshua Tree and Yosemite.

its all stupid. climbing is a pointless and irrational activity and we are all dumbness for doing it. just have fun with it. make fun of sport climbers for never topping out and using power drills. make fun of aid climbers for doing 5,000 pull ups to get to the top of el cap. who cares. to me its just kind of a fun "brotherly love" type thing.

Can you imagine a world where a person could enjoy bouldering, sport, and trad climbing?  Each aspect helping the other in synthesis!

Jake Jones wrote:

All your dumbness are belong to me.

Jake,  you posted that from the wrong account!

Jake Jones wrote:

All your dumbness are belong to me.

Don't get me turned on like that baby

TBlom wrote:

Can you imagine a world where a person could enjoy bouldering, sport, and trad climbing?  Each aspect helping the other in synthesis!

Go back to boulder, hippy! :)

Jake Jones wrote:

Hahaha, if only I could claim to be Aleks.  He did slip up once a while back.  I only said that so I could vicariously live like the famed fictional neck meat dynamo- if only for a moment.  Plus it was low hanging fruit.

climbing friend,

I have never "slip up?!?!" what is it you would be talking on? are you smoking the funny the shtuff?

I do not do this "slip up!" I am only thrusting up the greatly overhanging climbing rocks for great satisfaction of the flash, most likely shirtless and campusing, proud neck meat of considerable size, tone and definition displaying outwardly the repesentations of great inner strength and beauty for all to see.

all your troll are belong to me.

Makes you strong and sequence understanding during hard redpoint attempts. Has made my aid, ect game better. Just go climb. 

The crux is is which side do I where my gun in Greenland?  And i am Oklahoman. Go figure. 

Y’all be good. Try hard and love harder. 

It has been a practice for ages

And this sorta thing just adds the ART

To the Art Form

Best When There are Big Holds at the Top

Of course there are the natural curves & what look like faces frozen in stone 

They say every one sees what they see,

   -What is- . . .

 is in the imagination of the beholder

Every falls a grounder. . . so your mileage will cost ya as the years go by

Jake Jones wrote:

Climbing friend,

 but I am having the mind of steel trap.

Yeah, I gotta mind like a steel trap too....mauls everything that gets tangled with it.

;-)

Phil Lutz just pulled one helluva troll...15 pages of it to be exact lol

Jake Jones wrote:

Climbing friend,

Do not be trying the trick of mind on me.  We both know you had the fart of brain.  I have not the neck meat of fame, and forearms sometimes not refreshed at crux because of diet of intermittent fish head, but I am having the mind of steel trap.

The memory of your fuckup are belong to me.

climbing friend,

no.

you would be incorrect. it was some desperate individual posing as if me and pretending it was some mistake from account most incorrect-myah, in order to pleasure themselves on the internet and attempt they troll on me. also for pathetic attempt that my greatness somehow it rubs one off on them.

all your flash are belong to me. 

Tom Hanson wrote: Why does one faction of climbers have to dis another? i.e: blunderers vs tried or spurt (translates to boulderers vs trad or sport)? I suggest we argue climbing vs wallyball, climbing vs spending hours on Farcebook, or climbing vs shopping. Sure, only climbers visit this site, but, for crying out loud, quit comparing apples to oranges and appreciate the fact that we all like to pull down. Big walls, big mountains, crags, boulders, ice, mixed, whatever. It is all good. One of the things I love about our sport is that it is easy to get burned out when you focus on one aspect of the sport time after time and then you can add some variety. When I get burned out on spurt clamming I can go blundering. When I get burned out on blundering I can go do some turd (trad if you must). Burned out on turd? Go climb on yo mamma. Petty infighting is for trolls, who need to get out more and take themselves less seriously.

Thank you. I haven’t been bouldering for long but I imagined if you love me being out there on the mountains with your hands and feet in the rock, harnessed or not, that that was part of the passion for either sport. I also imagine that both bouldering and climbing intertwine. If you really love one you should dabble in the other to improve your own game. I don’t understand battling which is better. Neither are better. They are one of the same. Thank you for your response. I just joined the community of bouldering/climbing and I’ve been blessed to meet some AMAZINGLY talented and friendly people! I hope this community is one that’s welcoming and not full of stuck up rock people. Regardless, I’m planning my first CLIMBING trip and I’m fucking stoked. Let’s all agree to disagree and support each other. Thank you for your response Tom. 

So glad to see that this thread was brought back to life as there's definitely more than needs to be said about the topic that aren't covered in the 15 pages before this.

Also Candice, Protip: You can type your response in the same post as your quote. (As a brand new member, you'll be subject to posting limits so posting two posts everytime you want to quote something is going to limit your voice in these threads significantly.)

95% of trad climbers are grumpy old men who use trad as a way to feel superior when they lead that "real heady" 5.8 while 2 routes over some sport climber is sending a 5.12c as a warmup.