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edge
Nov 3, 2012, 2:00 AM
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Daggers wrote: I would definitely disagree and say that there is a lot of variety in a gym. The route setters have all types of style and holds. I would say a gym has more variety than an area outdoors simply because the problems are whatever they want it to be and you can make up routes on top of those and get even more types of climbing styles.
You should purchase a dump truck, because you're going to need something to carry away all that dirt from the hole you're digging yourself into.
First, before you lecture me about gyms, you may find it interesting that I have climbed in, ran comps for, and visited over 130 gyms in over 20 states. I coached a competitive climbing team for 10 years, have designed and built 5 large walls for schools, and have made my own holds from shaping to pouring the resin to route setting for comps. Oh yeah, I'm also a USA Climbing Nationally Certified Head Judge and have overseen all manor of events including Adult Bouldering Nationals. I am going out on a limb here, not knowing you at all, but I may know more about gym climbing than you...
Now for the best part, I have well over 1500 days climbing outdoors totaling maybe 6000+ pitches from trad to sport to big walls, and I'm not even the most experienced climber on this site; far from it. Many, many more days and pitches if you count ice and alpine climbing, but lets exclude those for the purpose of our discussion, shall we.
Now, bottom line is, everything you wrote in the above quote is a crock of Sh!t. You are young (I'm guessing 16ish?) and enthusiastic; that's fabulous. It appears to me that you have climbed at no more than a couple of gyms, if that, and I seriously doubt you have ever climbed outdoors at all. Florida is not generally known as a climbers playground. You can never replicate the variety and styles of climbing available outdoors in a gym environment. For all the multitude of holds and gyms as there are, there are infinitely more in Nature. Period. End of story.
Please stop arguing a point that you are not going to win and have no qualifications to have an opinion on.
(This post was edited by edge on Nov 3, 2012, 2:12 AM)
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Post edited by edge
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