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–	Rock Climbing: Why you should be doing it Piece of advice - don't even think of using a hangboard without having climbed regularly for at least 1 year. It's a sure way to injure yourself and set you back significantly. Muscles get stronger quick, tendons take years. You start pushing your tendons to the limit too quickly (like hangboarding does), you will (usually) tear the finger pulleys and worse than when you started. And anyway, when you start climbing, the limiting factor is always technique - and you only learn that by climbing an…	/r/TheRedPill	14/02/17 12:40 AM
–	Rock Climbing: Why you should be doing it Climbing is actually much safer than bouldering, injury-wise. The caveat is that in climbing it's extremely rare for accidents to happen, but when they do they are very serious/death, while bouldering they happen more frequently, but aren't usually serious. It comes down to personal preference, but for me and most of my climbing friends: indoors bouldering is much more fun, outdoors climbing is much more fun.	/r/TheRedPill	13/02/17 10:59 PM
–	Rock Climbing: Why you should be doing it I started bouldering just over 2 years ago at age 25... My biggest regret is not having started it way earlier. At some point, climbing is basically dynamic meditation: it's just you and the wall, everything fades and nothing else matters. No sadness, no happiness, no nothing, just a perfect state of pure concentration. And few things make you happier than conquering that problem that you've been working on for weeks non-stop. Or finishing that problem that looks completely impossible. My boulde…	/r/TheRedPill	13/02/17 10:50 PM

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