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rec8er
Sep 24, 2012, 2:09 PM
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2010). International Chemical Safety Cards on Magnesium Carbonate Retrevied from http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ipcsneng/neng0969.html
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DemolitionRed
Sep 25, 2012, 8:27 AM
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What I don't get is the massive overuse of chalk in indoor gyms.
Its very unusual for me to ever have to use chalk in a gym.
Watching a climber stop to repeatedly dip his/her palms into a chalk bag just makes me think its bad habit. Those people who do it every time they need to rest their pumped arms. I say, shake them out man, don't go for the chalk bag every time because it gets to look like you have a nervous twitch.
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Matthew0718
Sep 25, 2012, 1:26 PM
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Well unless your huffing it in a plastic bag....
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billcoe_
Sep 25, 2012, 10:39 PM
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anything worth saying once is worth saying twice:
billcoe_ wrote: Try to minimise the use of the stuff and that way I won't have to breath your chalk dust. For years no one thought that the dust in a coal mine was a health issue. Long term studies of chalk hasn't been done, and you won't know until it's too late, so why not go easy on the stuff now? That's my approach.
Then and now.
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notapplicable
Sep 25, 2012, 11:43 PM
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rec8er wrote: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2010). International Chemical Safety Cards on Magnesium Carbonate Retrevied from http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ipcsneng/neng0969.html
This was actually discussed at length in another thread on here. The research is actually quite alarming.
http://www.rockclimbing.com/...lk%20cancer;#2216980
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healyje
Sep 26, 2012, 9:36 AM
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It can't be good for your lungs, but however bad it is for your lungs it's even worse for your head.
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