Overheard/overseen at the gym

Mary Elizabeth Beckwithwrote:

watched a guy who easily climbs v8s and up in our gym power scream excessively and fall off of a v3 i was working on. was really strange to see that reaction, especially because it was kind of just a high heel/mantle move? and even stranger because i had been able to do the move he fell off of since my beginning attempts (and i only climb v8 in my dreams). made me feel kinda good about myself though, i wont lie

Are we sure he wasn't trolling you?

Breece McConnellwrote:

Are we sure he wasn't trolling you?

hes done similar stuff before. im not super close to him but i know hes a decent person, not a toxic boulder bro. hes very strong and pretty nice, but has the tendency to power scream in odd situations. if he was trolling me, it definitely went over my head lol

I'm leading and a friend of mine is belaying. some random dude walks by and yells "don't deck!". I had never seen him in the gym before and I haven't seen him again.

I'd deck just out of spite.

A dad telling his 13 year old daughter that the maybe very slightly overweight kid on the climbing team is "a total loser" and not to climb with him anymore

Two guys talking about running a marathon with zero training. Referred to it as "onsighting a marathon".

Eshan Kingwrote:

Two guys talking about running a marathon with zero training. Referred to it as "onsighting a marathon".

Those damn comp kids always trying to onsight everyone's project 

Eshan Kingwrote:

Two guys talking about running a marathon with zero training. Referred to it as "onsighting a marathon".

I’ve had this conversation before. The idea has a strange appeal

Doctor Drakewrote:

A dad telling his 13 year old daughter that the maybe very slightly overweight kid on the climbing team is "a total loser" and not to climb with him anymore

Wonder if there's more to this?  Maybe the chunky kid does crack out behind the gym when the grownups aren't watching.  Fuk that kid!!!!!

MattHwrote:

I’ve had this conversation before. The idea has a strange appeal

If Joe can do it, you can too. 

In a 1999 interview with Steppin’ Out magazine, Joe Strummer, talked about his “training regime”:

Q: Didn’t you once run in the Paris Marathon?
Joe: Yep. I ran three of them.
Q: Correct me if I’m wrong but is it also true that you never trained for any of them?
Joe: You shouldn’t really ask me about my training regime, you know.
Q: Why?
Joe: Because it’s not good and I wouldn’t want people to copy it.
Q: Don’t make me beat it out of you.
Joe: Okay, you want it, here it is. Drink 10 pints of beer the night before the race. Ya got that? And don’t run a single step at least four weeks before the race.
Q: No running at all?
Joe: No, none at all. And don’t forget the 10 pints of beer the night before. But make sure you put a warning in this article, “Do not try this at home.” I mean, it works for me and Hunter Thompson but it might not work for others. I can only tell you what I do.

Loose hold about 7 feet off the ground at the gym today. Guy working on the boulder problem calls over an employee to tighten the bolt down. The employee, who’s wearing rather tight jeans and doc martens, struggles for an eternity to make V-easy moves up the wall adjacent to the loose hold. I only mention the outfit because it’s clearly making it hard for him to climb. Me and the guy working on the problem offer to climb up the wall and tighten the bolt down ourselves, but the employee refuses to hand over the Allen key. Mumbles something about liability. After a couple more frustrating minutes, the employee walks away. To grab a ladder? No, to grab a sticker that says “OUT OF ORDER. DO NOT CLIMB” , which he slaps onto the starting hold of problem.

I hate gym bouldering. And I’m keeping Allen keys in my car from now on.

Ally Lwrote:

Loose hold about 7 feet off the ground at the gym today. Guy working on the boulder problem calls over an employee to tighten the bolt down. The employee, who’s wearing rather tight jeans and doc martens, struggles for an eternity to make V-easy moves up the wall adjacent to the loose hold. I only mention the outfit because it’s clearly making it hard for him to climb. Me and the guy working on the problem offer to climb up the wall and tighten the bolt down ourselves, but the employee refuses to hand over the Allen key. Mumbles something about liability. After a couple more frustrating minutes, the employee walks away. To grab a ladder? No, to grab a sticker that says “OUT OF ORDER. DO NOT CLIMB” , which he slaps onto the starting hold of problem.

I hate gym bouldering. And I’m keeping Allen keys in my car from now on.

Touchstone or PG? 

Connor Dobsonwrote:

Touchstone or PG? 

Gotta be PG

Went in there recently and there were at least 6 of those signs all over the bouldering area, not a great impression after not visiting for a while

Math Bertwrote:

Pointing at the speed climbing wall, which has the world records posted on it:  "Wow, this one is a 6.8, must be really hard!"

As of yesterday, the men's record is now 5.10

Which, coincidentally, is the rating of the speed route.

Connor Dobsonwrote:

Touchstone or PG? 

It was most def PG, ahem, Movement, which has to be the most soulless conglomerate gym I’ve ever been to haha.

At the gym on Saturday, a couple of newbie climbers are bouldering in harnesses. The guy has a chalk bag with a fully-functioning waist belt, as far as I can see. But he is holding the bag in hand, chalking up, and setting the chalk bag on the bench nearby, before getting on the problems.

I didn’t actually think much of it at first, many gyms have no-chalk-bags-on-the-mats rules, I figured that was why he didn’t put the chalk bag on.

But then the girl says, I gotta buy you that clip so you can clip the chalk bag to your harness. It’s only $25, not that bad!

To which the guy replies, I don’t want to buy any clips until I check that they are compatible with our harnesses. The harnesses we have are black diamond, and that clip was Edel-something.

Lena chitawrote:

At the gym on Saturday, a couple of newbie climbers are bouldering in harnesses. The guy has a chalk bag with a fully-functioning waist belt, as far as I can see. But he is holding the bag in hand, chalking up, and setting the chalk bag on the bench nearby, before getting on the problems.

I didn’t actually think much of it at first, many gyms have no-chalk-bags-on-the-mats rules, I figured that was why he didn’t put the chalk bag on.

But then the girl says, I gotta buy you that clip so you can clip the chalk bag to your harness. It’s only $25, not that bad!

To which the guy replies, I don’t want to buy any clips until I check that they are compatible with our harnesses. The harnesses we have are black diamond, and that clip was Edel-something.

Lol! Points for caution, at least?

I'm guessing this guy just took an Anchors 101 class

SM climbing gym 

Connor Dobsonwrote:

Touchstone or PG? 

At the touchstone gym I used to go to there were allen  keys hanging at a couple places in the gym (next to brushes) so you didn’t have to bug any staff for spinners.  Not that I love touchstone or anything, but at least they had that right.

Yuri Rodeawrote:

I'm guessing this guy just took an Anchors 101 class

SM climbing gym 

Does look a little goofy but it's even more goofy that you're making fun of someone for working out.

You need a hell of a lot more tension and stability to do excersizes with hanging weights than just throwing plates on. I'd reckon it's a better excercize for climbers than a regular bench would be.