Gym tantrums

LOL, people.  These stories are great.
Guy, the China Girl story is hilarious. 
I can’t remember ever seeing anyone throw a climbing tantrum!

GDavis wrote:

Being frustrated because you flubbed a silly arbritrary low clip in a world cup and throwing a tantrum at nothing is not anything like being passive aggressive because a gym proj. I really doubt Ondra throws these kind of wingers in the gym, and I doubt people who throw gym tantrums go to world cups.

Ondra was World Championship in Lead AND Bouldering that year, so I guess he gets the last victory scream.

Tim Stich wrote:  ..

Also, I am sick of that perpetual baby Adam Ondra. Grow up you little fuck.

If you think his uncontrollable rage at failure and his climbing achievements are unrelated, you’re wrong. 

Ryan M Moore wrote:

If you think his uncontrollable rage at failure and his climbing achievements are unrelated, you’re wrong. 

Alex Puccio and Daniel Woods seem to have had long-lasting success at that level without those shenanigans. It seems to work for him, but others don't need the histrionics.

jg

Ska Ggs wrote: We have a college nearby our little gym. I rarely boulder but when I do, i look for that D-bag type who pulls on everything and grunts about his muscles ... find what he’s struggling on, then flash it and walk away making full eye contact ... it gives me reason to boulder.

If people wanna get upset about not climbing well, I am really happy to help them.

Don't harass the Yalies too much, you'll probably be working for one of them someday.

IMO the babies having tantrums aren't as annoying as the spraymasters who spend most of their time hosing the gym down with unsolicited beta.

Josh Gates wrote:

Alex Puccio and Daniel Woods seem to have had long-lasting success at that level without those shenanigans. It seems to work for him, but others don't need the histrionics.

jg

I remember a certain video of Woods trying (and eventually succeeding) to send Hydrangea V15 which included a lot of cursing and shoe throwing.

Saw a guy blow up and lose it cause his GF told him where a hold was on a gym climb and she "Blew his onsite". Guy was legit pissed.

Tradiban wrote: Gentleman, it's called a "wobbler".

Is it possible to throw a wobbler bouldering? I thought you needed to be hanging on the end of a rope after falling (preferably while hanging in space so you can really get the arms and legs thrashing) for it to be a wobbler.

B K wrote: When a dude throws a wobbler, it's toxic masculinity.  He should be met with great scorn.

When a woman has a meltdown we all have to indulge in "her truth".

Gender equity.

If you had read this thread, you'd notice that the China Doll story shared earlier featured a woman having tantrum, and I'm pretty sure that this tantrum got the same ridicule in this thread as the guys throwing tantrums.

So far all dudes being twits. But women do it too. Just last week in the gym there was a 20-something woman climbing a 5.12, and she was having trouble on the first hard section. She was cursing and complaining loudly, and kept demanding "more slack!" from her belayer. The belayer looked like he wished he was somewhere far away. My partner and I were working on a route nearby, but we had to stop and go to another area - her attitude was really uncomfortable to be around. I have trouble on routes sometimes too, but I hope I handle it a lot better than that.

Señor Arroz wrote: There used to be a guy at my gym who was a really strong climber, consistently one of the best in gym full of good climbers, but he just whined like a big f-ing baby about EVERYTHING. So much so that my daughter and her middle school girl friends used to call him "big baby George." He also had a very good-looking girlfriend he was always berating for one thing or another.

Luckily he seems to have moved away. 

God, we had a guy like that back in Austin. He was always telling his wife she was doing something wrong while climbing or no, I haven't shown you how to traverse yet or some such nitpicking shit. 

 She was cursing and complaining loudly, and kept demanding "more slack!" from her belayer.

I had a high maintenance female climbing partner once who was down right abusive when she was climbing poorly. She once dressed me down because I didn't verbally encourage her enough, and I mean she was highly annoyed by that. Luckily, like big baby George she moved away. 

Pretty sure I heard a guy giving birth the other night.  I heard it was a girl!

You big meanies are denying my truth with your Well-balanced Person Hegemony.

Can't you see that purp V3 is my Silence? My Dawn Wall! My Madam Grundewald's dammit (someday)!

I go to the Gym to dominate, not get mocked by young wimin in yoga pants, teenage mutants and Columbia convertible pants wearing masters of plastic. Under Armor or death!

Mock me if you dare my gym bros know its my truth!

Harumpfster Boondoggle wrote: I go to the Gym to dominate, not get mocked by young wimin in yoga pants and Columbia convertible pants wearing masters of plastic. Under Armor or death!
Mock me if you dare my gym bros know its my truth!

And, then, there are those gym kids. They don't even consider my projects their warm ups. And, I can't effing curse - they are not old enough for those words.

amarius wrote:

And, I can't effing curse - they are not old enough for those words.

I asked the other day why they changed the radio station to something awful, and they said that it was because of my kid (almost 9) and some lyrics from the previous station. I observed that he likely heard worse than that on the drive over and managed to get some good music back on :) Damn their strength-to-weight ratios, though!

amarius wrote:

And, then, there are those gym kids. They don't even consider my projects their warm ups. And, I can't effing curse - they are not old enough for those words.

Nah, curse all you want. They probably know all those words, and some more besides. Have you looked at the route names these kids are sending? Every gym crusher under 13 has sent BOHICA by now. And it doesn't stand for Beautiful Orange Hibiscus in California.

Edited to add:

As my then-10yo son had said to his friend, in response to friend's claim that "Bitch is a female dog. It's in the dictionary, so it is not actually a swear word. Because it is in the dictionary"
"Dude, all swear words are in the dictionary, I checked!"

Eric Kuenstner wrote: equally as bad are the people who "psssssaaaaaat!" their way up anything and everything. my current gym has one of those guys...

The vocal track from this session was vile:

Josh Gates wrote:

Alex Puccio and Daniel Woods seem to have had long-lasting success at that level without those shenanigans. It seems to work for him, but others don't need the histrionics.

jg

I watched Alex throw a total fit on Robinson Rubber Tester, V0, some years ago. Chucked her shoes at it and stormed off XD but yeah I hear you out. Some people are not like others, in fact some people are not very emotional at all while some people are very emotional. Crazy! what to do! who to hate!

GDavis wrote:

I watched Alex throw a total fit on Robinson Rubber Tester, V0, some years ago. Chucked her shoes at it and stormed off XD but yeah I hear you out. Some people are not like others, in fact some people are not very emotional at all while some people are very emotional. Crazy! what to do! who to hate!

Woah - V0? That's wild! We all certainly have our bad days. Makes me feel better about mine :)