the next generation, young kids climbing (Read 9522 times)

Aussiegav · May 17, 2009, 08:15:51 am

with so many dad's on here, dragging our kids out climbing. i thought this maybe a way to show our kids.

this is my 6 yr old son Harvey

erm, sam · May 17, 2009, 05:55:43 pm

Here is one of Ru (Ru the younger of course) 4yrs, at Font last week..

neil h · May 17, 2009, 06:10:14 pm

as much as this is a good well needed thread dont you think it might turn into a pushy parents thread

Strife · May 17, 2009, 07:20:29 pm

I saw an 8 year old working his way through the hardest circuit at the climbing academy a few weeks ago.

Zods Beard · May 17, 2009, 07:52:38 pm

Quote from: erm, sam on May 17, 2009, 05:55:43 pm

Here is one of Ru (Ru the younger of course) 4yrs, at Font last week..

Good to see parents use there children to test descent routes, behaviour to be commended!

Sloper · May 17, 2009, 07:56:22 pm

Indeep Sloper Jnr will be expected to be cruising the Whites at Font in 9 days time.

marty · May 17, 2009, 09:03:20 pm

Finn-meister and some serious bridging in Font last summer:

Lochlann-loch-less with some serious smearing going on.

The kiddies white circuit at Canache-aux-merciers was just brilliant. Excellent problems - lots of variety!

neil h · May 18, 2009, 04:54:13 pm

that lloks like sabots to me

Jaspersharpe · May 18, 2009, 05:01:30 pm

That's what I was thinking.

marty · May 18, 2009, 07:33:17 pm

Your right - bottom one definitely sabots. Think the top one was canache aux mercier - I could have that wrong though aswell mind - but I do remember C-A-M being a top venue, and kiddies white being ace (better that Sabots imho)

neil h · May 18, 2009, 09:56:47 pm

Quote from: marty on May 18, 2009, 07:33:17 pm

Your right - bottom one definitely sabots. Think the top one was canache aux mercier - I could have that wrong though aswell mind - but I do remember C-A-M being a top venue, and kiddies white being ace (better that Sabots imho)

I agree with you there, thats because, at CAM the kiddie circuit is an infante circuite and the one at sabots is a junior circuit designed to teach all aspects of font climbing, there are a couple on there that even I have trouble with, the smearing slabs with round top outs

marty · May 19, 2009, 07:46:25 pm

Quote from: neil h on May 18, 2009, 09:56:47 pm

Quote from: marty on May 18, 2009, 07:33:17 pm
Your right - bottom one definitely sabots. Think the top one was canache aux mercier - I could have that wrong though aswell mind - but I do remember C-A-M being a top venue, and kiddies white being ace (better that Sabots imho)

I agree with you there, thats because, at CAM the kiddie circuit is an infante circuite and the one at sabots is a junior circuit designed to teach all aspects of font climbing, there are a couple on there that even I have trouble with, the smearing slabs with round top outs

I hadnt realised there was a difference. Any other "infante circuite" that you would recommend? I am hoping to get a font trip in later this year.

erm, sam · May 19, 2009, 08:33:24 pm

Usefull knowledge there Neil. Anybody would think you spoke French or summut.

Falling Down · June 24, 2009, 10:05:56 am

I thought this was the most appropriate thread..

Me and Falling Down Sr at the base of Tyn Towyn

Dad

SYKED at 65

Andy F · June 25, 2009, 02:40:57 pm

The young'un training hard: http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=117769

Richie Crouch · June 25, 2009, 05:34:19 pm

Haha. Nice work Andy, surely not long till he can start crushing the 35 and 45's

Monolith · June 25, 2009, 06:35:32 pm

Andy's lad has to be the youngest to have hung some holds in the cave. Was he about 6 months at the time? Crying furiously if I remember rightly.

erm, sam · June 25, 2009, 09:33:44 pm

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Me and Falling Down Sr at the base of Tyn Towyn

Does your father generate a sphere of invisibility that effects all around? I cannot see any picture......

Falling Down · June 25, 2009, 10:37:23 pm

That's bloody Apple MobileMe hosting for you.. it's shit.

Here they are on Flickr

Fiend · June 25, 2009, 11:09:49 pm

So are you the next generation then, FD??

Nice pics

Falling Down · June 25, 2009, 11:19:49 pm

Yeah I guess so. My Dad took me climbing when I was little like the Dads on here but I didn't really get into it until my early 20's. He was more of a walker that could use a rope and belay. We've done some good routes together though on Tryfan, Cader Idris and in Scotland. Big Diffs and stuff...

It's pretty cool and I'm very lucky that he understands what it's all about though he gets very excited when I tell him about routes like Cenotaph Corner and The Sloth with them being cutting edge routes when he was a youth.

He got all star struck when Jerry came to stay at their caravan to go surfing which was funny.

Johnny Brown · June 26, 2009, 09:16:15 am

Nice, sounds very similar to my apprenticeship. I took my Dad round Robin Hood's Stride on a a crisp winter's day once to show him what bouldering was all about. At Ben's wall we bumped into Jerry and, after I'd burnt him off, Dad stuck his chest out, pleased as punch, and said to Jerry 'I taught him everything he knows.'

Is that line of wierd bolts still in at Quarry 5? Keep forgetting to take a spanner up. Exlax is a great route.

clm · June 26, 2009, 12:02:12 pm

Not as good as ironing

slackline · June 26, 2009, 03:13:01 pm

New boulder in Burngreave that looks quite amenable to kids (even big ones)...

Munkii · June 26, 2009, 05:46:15 pm

i wish my parents where more interested in my climbing, they just do not care at all.

they even stop me climbing for punishments.