Overheard/overseen at the gym

Erik Jwrote:

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. 

I would suggest then doing a benchpress-like workout with dumbells (or really I wouldn't, I think a benchpress is fine for 99.9% of people). The placement of the weights will make little difference, and seems very much influenced by what people like Joel Seedman are putting out, 

Erik Jwrote:

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. 

I also wanted to stretch with a sling or do Jefferson curls but lmao he took every single one. 

Its a completely useless way to workout. Just use dumbbells to work your shoulder stability or hop on some gymnastic rings (they're 5 feet to the right). 

Yuri Rodeawrote:

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

SM climbing gym 

I know it looks silly but this requires a lot of stabilization.  This pressing / stabilizing combination got rid of my 6-year tendonitis issue in a way that traditional presses did not.

Eric Dwrote:

I know it looks silly but this requires a lot of stabilization.  This pressing / stabilizing combination got rid of my 6-year tendonitis issue in a way that traditional presses did not.

The real problem is that you are hogging all that equipment.

Mesa Rim North City!

Leader lowering off after falling at the 4th bolt, loudly to his belayer/everyone in earshot: "At least I sent it!"

Big Redwrote:

Leader lowering off after falling at the 4th bolt, loudly to his belayer/everyone in earshot: "At least I sent it!"

The trouble with new climbers is that they come from a different jargon than us lifers.

Sending has been appropriated. It basically means going for it. When skiers or mountain bikers use it, it generally means the same thing. Tried hard and made it. It’s gotten dilute. You can send your morning shit as well as send that phone call with your boss. Utter drivel. Guarantee that he genuinely thinks that send meant he stepped up and tried hard.

It’s a shame because it meant quite a lot to a lot of us for a long time. I’ll probably go back to redpointing.

It’s the same thing we have done to “rig”, “splitter”, and in larger society “smart”.

That really smarts

Saw a pair of teenagers in rental gear start climbing on TR. Girl was past the 1st bolt, guy was holding his phone in his L hand, rope with his R. No belay device. Reason they caught my eye was because a ginormous amount of slack in the system. I run over and said you probably don't want to do that. Guy didn't respond but gave me a side eye that sorta said "mind your own business". I started to explain that they need to use a belay device to climb on TR but guy still didn't say a word. Girl starts asking where to get 1. At this point my partner gets involved and said "you need to go to the front desk" so they can get sorted out. I didn't get a chance to see if the girl had a figure 8 but she untied it pretty quick. I mean...

Jeremy Lwrote:

Saw a pair of teenagers in rental gear start climbing on TR. Girl was past the 1st bolt, guy was holding his phone in his L hand, rope with his R. No belay device. Reason they caught my eye was because a ginormous amount of slack in the system. I run over and said you probably don't want to do that. Guy didn't respond but gave me a side eye that sorta said "mind your own business". I started to explain that they need to use a belay device to climb on TR but guy still didn't say a word. Girl starts asking where to get 1. At this point my partner gets involved and said "you need to go to the front desk" so they can get sorted out. I didn't get a chance to see if the girl had a figure 8 but she untied it pretty quick. I mean...

This is so egregious it almost sounds fake. How does this even happen?

"We'd like a day pass please".

"Ever been here before?"

"Nope"

"Sign this waiver. Need any gear?"

"Nope"

"OK have fun! This is all perfectly normal!"

PortlandRobwrote:

This is so egregious it almost sounds fake. How does this even happen?

A little Gym I used to go to in NJ was kinda like this, one high schooler at the front desk with 0 visibility to the climbing area. You needed to set routes with your own draws, and halfway up some routes you'd realize they weren't completely bolted

PortlandRobwrote:

"We'd like a day pass please".

"Ever been here before?"

"Nope"

"Sign this waiver. Need any gear?"

"Nope"

"OK have fun! This is all perfectly normal!"

My interaction at every new gym I go to when traveling…

Doctor Drakewrote:

I routinely see people belaying with the grigri clipped in upside down.

I routinely see people with belay loops belaying with the grigri clipped through their two hard points.

I routinely see parents lowering their children on a grigri by pulling the lowering handle all the way back, letting go completely of the brake strand, and pulling rope out of the top of the grigri. 

Ok I’ve definitely lowered my kid in the gym by pulling rope out the climbers side because she weighs 35 pounds and the rope was wrapped twice around the barrel/anchor up top. If I didn’t she’d still be hanging there.

The summer camp kids were dressed as super heros. One spiderman kid keeps falling off the autobelays and whines, "being Spiderman is hard."

2 average-size guys climbing together and each using an Edelrid Ohm on the first bolt. 

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsionwrote:

The trouble with new climbers is that they come from a different jargon than us lifers.

Sending has been appropriated. It basically means going for it. When skiers or mountain bikers use it, it generally means the same thing. Tried hard and made it. It’s gotten dilute. You can send your morning shit as well as send that phone call with your boss. Utter drivel. Guarantee that he genuinely thinks that send meant he stepped up and tried hard.

It’s a shame because it meant quite a lot to a lot of us for a long time. I’ll probably go back to redpointing.

It’s the same thing we have done to “rig”, “splitter”, and in larger society “smart”.

HAFE? Are you by chance an anesthesiologist who drives a blue 4Runner?

Will Shawwrote:

2 average-size guys climbing together and each using an Edelrid Ohm on the first bolt. 

Rope drag simulator

Arthur Wwrote:

HAFE? Are you by chance an anesthesiologist who drives a blue 4Runner?

I have neither a 4 Runner nor access to propofol. Sorry to disappoint.

Had some propo recently for a foot surgery.  Awesome stuff.

Climber: "That climb was so awesome.... I had to take a victory whip at the end"

He was top roping.