Yeah fuck I'm kinda surprised the climbing community's Genshin Impact levels of faggotry hasn't been documented in depth here.
I've never done it but definitely grind out your endurance, are you eyeing easy routes to do it or do you want to push yourself? As a crippling autist, traversing your gym's spray wall or even the whole bouldering area is a great way to build endurance and learn to recover when you've got too much spaghetti in your pockets to ask for a belay. Downclimbing a route and climbing back up over and over is also choice.
Been meaning to try it for a while but have yet to find a decent location to give it a try. The geography makes it hard as most of the coast is either sandy, doesn't have the overhang to clear rock ledge or is too high grade to give DWS a first attempt.
Probably not enough of an online presence, though I do know there are a couple of small lolcows in my local community (drama over belay and naming rights to routes, inane shit like that) but not enough to get milk from. Most of the faggotry is in cliques though and found the general community is pretty welcoming but then again I'm not US based.
Majestic in BC, Canada looks like a good spot. It's a V6, though, so it's probably a year or two too early for me.
This forced me to stop years ago. Everyone got married/got girlfriends/moved away and in one extreme case, went to prison.
That’s an amazing spot, route looks like it’s good fun too. Definitely adding that to my bucket list.
Too much at stake with an auto belay imo, seen too many horror stories about them resulting in death or in one case anal impalement.
Auto-belays are used in speed climbing competitions, if that's not a sign of reliability then I don't know what else could be.
How many? I only heard about three or four, and all of them were the climber's fault for not clipping in properly (including the six-million-dollar lawsuit incident in Seattle).
Six I think? Two at place in my city which is more the cause of hesitancy and honestly they've been slap dash at the best of times with double checking safety (they've now removed all the auto-belays). But the more I think about it, you're probably better off in the hands of the auto-belay instead of some Gumby you've just met.
I like watching Louis from Catalyst Climbing coach people - applying his tips and feedback to my climbing helped me send a couple tough projects.
What is up with that?
I like rock climbing. I think it comes with the fact that many people who rock climb are out West, and California is ground zero for that kind of sin. So it is just leaking into it.
Could be the lack of direct competitiveness, they don't need prove anything to participate. So it's ok for them to prance around the local gyms as a social thing without making anyone feel bad for losing. There's a few groups who do this at my local, but you never see them at the crag and they only turn up sporadically. The vast bulk of the regulars are groups who are pushing themselves or each other to try harder grades instead of loudly clapping and cheering when their crop-top wearing tranny friend with the pokemon chalk bag finally clears the pink in the corner.
