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chingas
May 7, 2003, 5:13 PM
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Has anyone heard of this? Basically, you free solo the TR/Lead climbing walls of the gym-thereby experiencing the rush of free soloing in the safety and controlled enviroment of a gym. What a rush!
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geckoee
May 7, 2003, 5:18 PM
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how is a gym safe and controlled compared to outside? either way when you take a 40 foot grounder you are going to break something.
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z0mb1e
May 7, 2003, 5:30 PM
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What gym would allow this? It looks like a lawsuit just waiting to happen.
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robmcc
May 7, 2003, 5:33 PM
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Troll?
Sounds pretty pointless to me. I can't imagine many gyms would allow it, either. Mine won't let you belay without being anchored. Imagine the fun of trying to explain to the noobies that the guy without a rope is a very experienced, competent climber who knows his limits and is climbing well within them, that he knows the consequences of a fall and fully accepts personal responsibility for it, so you shouldn't do it no matter how cool it looks.
Personally, if I want to be gripped by fear at the thought of seemingly inconsequential events (slip!) with monstrous consequences, I just think about my kids becoming teenagers. :shock:
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brianthew
May 7, 2003, 5:51 PM
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I smell sarcasm.
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salami
May 8, 2003, 6:31 AM
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I have spun or broken too many holds to try soloing in a gym. try missing a clip because your foot hold broke which sends you for a 20 ft lead wipper slamming you into your belayer and you may be more thankful people invented ropes and spray n wash.
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psych
May 8, 2003, 6:52 AM
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I could see it happening, and could see it being cool actually...but you've gotta be pretty tight with the gym owner and it's gotta be after hours. If I had a gym, heck yeah I'd do it, but I'd have pads down below me...about 10 feet thick...
Mike...
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onelung
May 8, 2003, 7:47 AM
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You mean they use ropes in a gym? I dont get it. Is this a joke?
Bill
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ryanpfleger
May 13, 2003, 5:32 AM
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Sounds pretty lame to me. Especially the part about "the rush". WTF?
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ptone
May 13, 2003, 5:53 AM
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So thats what happened!!!
The gym owner where I winter came in one morning, found some guy in prana shorts moaning over a twisted ankle...
He said there were nail marks in the wall by the phone where he tried to stand up to dial a taxi :shock:
Now if you rented one of those nail boards the circusfreaks like to sleep on, and use it as a boulder pad...
Maybe you'd be starting a new extreme-bouldering trend!
(or maybe you'd be losing partners)
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koto
May 13, 2003, 7:54 AM
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I have actually seen someone do this. It was only a low grade, but he just made it to the top when the gym manager saw him, and I believe his exact words were: "That is without a doubt the dumbest thing I've ever seen anyone do in this place!" Scary, stupid, definitely dumb, and true!
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jerrygarcia
May 13, 2003, 12:13 PM
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aarong
May 13, 2003, 1:36 PM
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It makes it more realistic when you put some items at the bottom of the wall to mimic objects in the natural outside soloing environment. You know, buckets of holds, backpacks, other people milling about. If I expect one of the resident indoor soloers to visit the gym that day I always like to randomly loosen a few holds - just to make things exciting.
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bishop
May 13, 2003, 1:53 PM
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Question... How do you top-out at a gym? I do a little down climbing myself but my gym is 60ft and a really arm pumper to down climb.
and second... not that it hasn't been said already. But any gym owner that allows this to go on won't be a gym owner for long.
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