Why Do Some Climbers HATE Bouldering?

Bouldering is hard and scary. I've never hit the ground trad, sport, or ice climbing.

that guy named seb wrote:

If you think you sit around doing nothing bouldering you should try properly projecting a sport route, 45 minutes sat in a harness while the climber barely moves more than 4 meters while he tries moves with all the different beta under the sun. This is also while being somewhat violently jerked towards the wall as the climber falls, again and again and again. 

Bouldering it's like a 5-10 minute break between serious attempts with lots of climbing for everyone while you  all work out the beta. 

Philip Lutz Wrote:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     It is probably the most simple way to climb. Find Rock. Climb Rock. (Don't Die.)

It is the basis of all other rock climbing

Do some Climbers Hate Climbing?

Rock Climbing Is an exercise in futility & nothing emphasizes that more than Small rock Yo-Yo-ing

Bouldering came first , Every fall is a ground fall.  Pads help,  Pads are aid,  Pads ruined bouldering

Pursuing purity is brutally honest, It is a "SEND-IT" game; Send or Fail -  No cheating

"Beta" is cheating, Chalk Tick marks are cheating, Spotting is cheating, Pads are cheating

The reason for hating on anything is always the same; If one can't rise up to game ? Try to tear it down.

 Pebble Wrestling,  Pad people,  Small Rock Messaging, Boulder Massaging,  Bare`back `Bienie`Wankers,                                                                                                                           Stone Ticklers, Rock Tickers, Yankin' Wankers, Yank`n planters, Tough-Tuggers,  Ugly Landers (come`n go splat' I'L'smoke that & Spilt* beer) *Spilled Brew is a sin to a few

The thing is rock climbing should be defined by the "verb"  "Climbing",
& not by all the modifiers now applied to it: "Hanging out Catching some pad time" - hang or dangle till you get up something.

Every  fall is a ground  fall, I am not afraid of falling, I am afraid of the  ground. 

I enjoy all forms of climbing - mountaineering, adventure/choss new routing, trad climbing, sport climbing and, yes, bouldering.  I get a little something different out of each of them.  I'm not all that strong at any of them, but I am enthusiastic.

I find bouldering (both indoor and outdoor) to be complementary to my other climbing - it is a very efficient way to maintain what strength I have.  Outdoor, I often boulder with only one pad and no spotters.  This encourages accurate assessment of the difficulty of a problem, which transfers to trad route reading.  Solo highball bouldering demands that you know your limits and know when to commit and when to back off.  I find this is very good for my trad lead head.  

I like to travel for climbing, and bouldering can be very accessible when you visit a popular area without a partner or gear.  I have met a lot of friendly people while bouldering, although I hardly match the typical demographic .

After more than ten years of bouldering, up to my current age of 65, the worst injury I have had from bouldering was a bruised heel.  Maybe I have just been lucky, but you do not have to hurt yourself bouldering.

So, I really don't understand "why some climbers HATE bouldering".

I don't really think it's that anyone hates bouldering.

It's that everyone, hates boulderers. 
 

Its pebble wrestling. If you think youre a real climber you are only cheating yourself

Russ B wrote: I don't really think it's that anyone hates bouldering.

It's that everyone, hates boulderers. 
 

Well, scooooooz me. ;-)

Best, H

A funny quote, I think maybe from Tim Toula, ‘I love everything about climbing, except the actual climbing.’

that guy named seb wrote:

If you think you sit around doing nothing bouldering you should try properly projecting a sport route, 45 minutes sat in a harness while the climber barely moves more than 4 meters while he tries moves with all the different beta under the sun. This is also while being somewhat violently jerked towards the wall as the climber falls, again and again and again. 

Bouldering it's like a 5-10 minute break between serious attempts with lots of climbing for everyone while you  all work out the beta. 

45 minute rule bro. Lower after 45 minutes on the wall. Does everyone good. 

Go Back to Super Topo wrote:

45 minute rule bro. Lower after 45 minutes on the wall. Does everyone good. 

I'm more of a three strikes and you're out kinda guy, especially if the climber isn't really going for it.

Boulderers are the Flat Earthers of climbing 

I think I get it now... it’s a predominately male sport and y’all just like to talk shit to each other. Lmfao. Now it all makes sense. Well I’ll see y’all out there. 

If you want to talk more to bouderers about this, visit Boldering.com There you can see what chuffers are and why roped climbing is so hated.

Elena Sera Jose wrote: I challenge any boulderer to jump on a 12 draw sport 10 or a trad 100ft 7 and manage to keep their balls in the sack!

Done! Do I get a cookie?

Wilburn wrote:

Done! Do I get a cookie?

So you have graduated to climber status! From boulder bro to climber man youve come a long way!

In answer to the OP.....because the dream isn't 15 ft. tall.

To me bouldering is just practice for bigger routes.

I no longer boulder because I kept popping finger tendons, which really sucked. I refuse to get hurt and out of the game for some fucking 12 foot high boulder.

m Mobes wrote:

I'm more of a three strikes and you're out kinda guy, especially if the climber isn't really going for it.

That’s harsh man. 

Bouldering is OK, but dangerous.
Watched a guy become a cripple.

I think trad and even sport climbing is more fun, and people who put down aid probably suck at it. When you are good aid takes you places free climbers never see.

But 99% of climbers will never know the thrill and joy of soloing a big virgin route.

Ron O wrote: Bouldering is OK, but dangerous.
Watched a guy become a cripple.

I think trad and even sport climbing is more fun, and people who put down aid probably suck at it. When you are good aid takes you places free climbers never see.

But 99% of climbers will never know the thrill and joy of soloing a big virgin route.

You got that right, Ron. I tried aiding for about 2 years, but to get good at hauling you have to do it a bunch, and I just didn't have that kind of time. Plus the interesting aid routes in my neck of the woods are all just one pitch, so you don't even get a payoff.

I was quick enough on clean routes, but nailing was another story. Sold all the Angles, Arrows, Jumars, aiders and hooks for a song in 2005.