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Listen man, I did bouldering. For fitness. Any time people were talking about doing that shit outside, I noped the fuck away.

Because of this :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lvoS4H9wR0

On 7/29/17 a 300 lb rock landed on my leg from a height of 10 feet. Because the falling weight/force of the rock upon impact was over 3,000 lbs, I believe it had only an indirect, partial impact to my leg,

Fucking no. I’m not going to the outside where the holds might be wet, fall off, and cause me injury fucking up my training regimen.

I mean, I’m old and my back is fucked up, so I’m not doing it anyway, but I wasn’t back then neither.

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lps2@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Outside is where it’s at - indoor is a good workout but hard to call it rock climbing rather just a rough facsimile of it. Being out in nature, cracking a beer and/or hitting the pen, and climbing is on a completely different level from the gym. It’s still super safe assuming you’re doing sport and the accidents like the one you quoted are rare. Driving to the gym or crag is far more dangerous

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- Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Outside is where it’s at - indoor is a good workout but hard to call it rock climbing rather just a rough facsimile of it.
  
  I mean yeah. I’ll 100% cop to being a faker, I did it because it was a more fun gym, and I enjoyed solving puzzles with my body.
  
  Driving to the gym or crag is far more dangerous
  
  I walked there.
  
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  - lps2@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I mean yeah. I’ll 100% cop to being a faker
    
    That wasn’t my intention, rather just encouraging you and others to try climbing outside (with others who have experience)! It’s so much fun
    
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- PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nearly died on a drive home from a rock climbing trip where we did tons of fun and wild (but safe) stuff on ropes, there was a car stopped perpendicular across part of a dark empty interstate in the middle of the night that we passed at full speed.
  
  Two carloads of people had a near-death butt pucker like nothing else we’d experienced on that trip (and no clue what was going on with that car, we were long gone by the time we recovered our wits and processed not being a mangled up paste of people). Your comment resonates with me cuz I understood driving that night, lmao. It’s wildly uncontrolled compared to rock climbing, with comparatively high risks of really bad outcomes in fully capricious ways. Can become a splat out of nowhere with barely a moment to consider the coming fact. Woof.
  
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