Woo! Motivation PTFTW!

Yeah, AB had a similar impact on me. I couldn't climb shit with him.

Oddly, my motivation is not wanting to fail in front of certain people. Some people, I simply don't care, others I do. I don't care that much about success with myself, so that's why I don't push myself for my own benefit (It's simply not why I climb), but some people do actually impact how hard I push things.

AB kept me off the deck in the morning, but by the afternoon I stopped caring. shrugs.

A_B did what? That's knot what we sent him down there to do...

I'm curious as to whether one-starring your posts helps zend, but I'm afraid it will confuse the results, so for today I'm just one-starring jt's posts. I've gotten around 10 so far, hopefully this will translate into better climbing.

I plan on testing different factors, such as number of jt512 posts one-starred, timing of the one-starring compared to my climbing, recentness of the one-starred posts, etc., to see what translates best into better climbing.

Hopefully we'll have numerous people involved in the testing, so we can get better results.

Do you actually have to get on the climb before it's considered that you bailed?

Defeated before I even started......but I was thinking of starting to one star JT512's post to see if that helps.

Let me know if you need help analyzing the results. I'd participate in the study as a subject myself, but alas am precluded from rating my own posts, which is unfortunate, since I'm the one who needs the training effect the most around here.

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I five starred one of his posts and I tore my acl ... definitely go for the one star

Yeah, AB had a similar impact on me. I couldn't climb shit with him.

I haven't been to the gym in a few weeks, so I may try this and see how I climb tonight.

Its a well know fact that you can't climb shit irregardless of who ewe are doing nature hikes with.

I think that one-starring JT's posts actually works even futuristically. I went to the gym tonight, sent my proj, then came home and one starred him! And scored the PT, too!

Oh it's gunna help awlrite... I guarantee it! Soon ewe'll be sending like never before...

and that monkey on yore back at nite? Yea, he'll finish that kitchen... or he'll be looking sumwhere else to hide teh salami.

I'm telling ewe won staring JT512's posts is teh answer to awl of lifes woes.

This is a story about trying hard. . . .
A little more than two years ago, I quit my jorb to go climbing. . . . Motivation for me turned out to be a two year process. Do you have any motivational secrets?

Yes.

After three years of life as essentially a pro climber, you managed to "flash" a 5.11 sport climb with running beta. For that, your father figure rewarded you with free gear.

That was a shameful display of just what is wrong with America today.

I blame declining standards. I blame sport climbing. I blame Dr. Spock. I blame the loss of American pride in craft. I blame lax parenting.

And above all, I blame Preble for rewarding you with the patriarchal love that you clearly hadn't earned. (And which you repaid by posting semi-naked, homoerotic and insufficiently ironic moderate choss blort jpegs which drove the entire deal way out of the realm of victimless crime by punishing the rest of us even though we weren't complicit in tripper's inappropriate gifting of shoes.)



Nice story, though.

KLK clearly did not get teh free shooz.

Its a well know fact that you can't climb shit irregardless of who ewe are doing nature hikes with.

If I remember correctly... didn't ewe won star a bunch of JT512's post just before ewe lost awl that baby blort and then went on to send teh Warm Up?

Well, I am back from teh gym, and ... that shit works! Hadn't bouldered in there in ages, and was cruising white porblems and even zent a brown porblem. Looks like I have a lot of one-starring of JT512 posts in my future.

Deep down I am a lazy climber. I have a tendency to climb the stuff that I'm good at, and not try very hard. This is a story about trying hard.

A little more than two years ago, I quit my jorb to go climbing. I had high hopes of meeting lots of cute girls and bagging the classics. Well, a week after I gave my notice but before I was actually done working I met my girlfriend. So the hotties were out the window, and it was going to be about bagging the classics.

Then the gauntlet was dropped, and the shoes thrown. I was challenged by another climber to head down south and climb a steep physical training route known as the $20 hooker. The grade of the hooker was somewhat in doubt. Going with the laugh grade, ie, what you can call it without actually laughing, it goes at .11b. Other sources put the Hooker as high as .12b.

The bet was as follows: I send the Hooker in one day, and I win a pair of shoes. Free shoes! I love free stuff.

I fail to send the Hooker in a day, and I dance for the camera in my grots. Now, I don't fear other people looking at this porcelain adonis, but the pointing and laughing I just couldn't bear.

So I fled. I didn't get within 50 miles of the $20 Hooker for two years. I had climbed 5.12 in the past, before a couple hand injuries set me back. I hid on the low angle dummy domes. I cowered in the pillow soft grades of indian creek. Before long, I couldn't look at myself in the mirror.

What to do? I couldn't hide any more. During this time I had been mocked and ridiculed by those who knew of the bet, despite my tales of AWESOMENESS about the creek, the red, the high sierra, the needles and those other needles.

I needed to motivate. To face my fears of the mockery. So I went to the gym and started to pull.

After three sessions, I realized the answer wasn't in the gym. It was the faces of my enemies! Arrogant_bastard, snoopy and jim. I began to train again secretly. I could see them laughing at me in my mind, and I could pull harder. I could visualize them crying the real tearz as I sent, and I felt weightless, effortlessly moving up the overhang.

My hatred fully channelized, and my fingers the steel hooks bachar spoke of, I loaded up the car with my dog and my self respect when my girlfriend said it was ok, and drove down to challenge myself on the Hooker.

Snoppy and Jim weren't going to make it easy, plying me with several margaritas the night before. But it was do or die, and I was primed to kill.

I should mention that despite his unseemly desire to see me do the grots dance, Jim did give me the full beta spray down on the Hooker. Got the full walk through on the beta, with the crux location and secret, and an in depth description of each grip.

I stood below the Hooker. I gathered my thoughts. If I sent, I could vanquish my foes. With any luck, they would even quit climbing.

The route was easy!! The pump didn't even hit me until after I clipped the chains I was so focused!! I had Onflashed the $20 Hooker!! I had won the boots!! The boys would be pissed!! My girlfriend wouldn't care!! I had found the motivation I needed to climb hard!!

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Motivation for me turned out to be a two year process. Do you have any motivational secrets?

What do you think?

I'm curious as to whether one-starring your posts helps zend, but I'm afraid it will confuse the results, so for today I'm just one-starring jt's posts. I've gotten around 10 so far, hopefully this will translate into better climbing.

I plan on testing different factors, such as number of jt512 posts one-starred, timing of the one-starring compared to my climbing, recentness of the one-starred posts, etc., to see what translates best into better climbing.

Hopefully we'll have numerous people involved in the testing, so we can get better results.