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#25 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 12:13:50 am
Malc was nearly always on his own.

The holy oracle of power
Of course he did not need someone to hold his hand when training nor to tend to his wounds after the battle for he knew that sacrifices had to be made and the rewards would plentiful! with chalk and sweat and effort (and a padlocked fridge) he became the best there ever was.
now you get your ass back on that board

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#26 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 07:29:53 am

Personally I prefer holds to be named. Preferably something offensive/childish.

I like it when you can form sentences (abusive/childish if at all possible) out of the hold names. If setting / climbing on your own cn be a method of forcing moves / holds you are worse at, or don't like and tend to avoid.

If you combined that with the "cut-up" technique Bowie used to compose lyrics you could end up in a whole world of bother..... pull the wrong word out of the hat and you might emerge from the woodie room ressembling a one-man human centipede!

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#27 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 09:28:16 am
a one-man human centipede

this sums up bouldering in general, but especially applies to training

nothing wrong with it, just saying

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#29 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 01:08:20 pm
That's an interesting site, nice one Eddie

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#30 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 01:14:22 pm
For me, training on the board alone is something I've not managed to sustain for more than about 2 sessions. I just don't enjoy it enough in it's own right to enjoy it on my own.
If this is you (it doesn't sound like it is) then it paints a fairly bleak picture if you can replace the need for human company with a few posters of Jerry.

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#31 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 02:05:39 pm
For me, training on the board alone is something I've not managed to sustain for more than about 2 sessions. I just don't enjoy it enough in it's own right to enjoy it on my own.

Wait until there is more in life you want to escape from / have respite from. Then an hour of silence in front of unblinking non crying/puking/pooing plastic will seem like a heavenly elixir.

Not meaning to be too negative like ;)

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#32 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 02:41:34 pm
This.

My half hour on the turbo or treadmill in the garage feels like a haven of peace once the kids are in bed. And we've cleared up the mess. And washed the clothes, and removed the biscuits from the dvd player. etc.

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#33 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 04:37:59 pm
For me, training on the board alone is something I've not managed to sustain for more than about 2 sessions. I just don't enjoy it enough in it's own right to enjoy it on my own.

Wait until there is more in life you want to escape from / have respite from. Then an hour of silence in front of unblinking non crying/puking/pooing plastic will seem like a heavenly elixir.

Not meaning to be too negative like ;)

Oh yeah.

I own a friken wall/climbing gym and only really train when we're closed!
I can put on very heavy, very loud, very NSFW music. Meditate between sets, or swing a Bow staff or Katana around like a loon, without feeling like a dick or killing a passing kid.

Also, being able to give vent to my full nautical vocabulary, at volume, is very cathartic; but would result in arrest under section 8 of the mental health act should anyone hear...
And I fall off/fail a lot!


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#34 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 07:49:22 pm
This quote from Andy Pollitt from his interview of Jerry on the other channel:

"I remember many long, bitter winters when you’d hitchhike out to Stoney to boulder at Tom’s Roof all by yourself. The mental stimulation to do that day after day was remarkable and you gained tons of respect for your dedication from ‘us lot’; your contemporaries."

I guess all those laps in Tom's Roof on his tod in the middle of winter were done on the back of pure psyche - training on his own was evidently not a problem for Jerry!

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#35 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 08:18:05 pm
I'm having almost the opposite problem - my inclination  is to have a thrash on the woodie every night - but I am having to exercise restraint and have the odd day off as as my elbows are complaining.   I used to be saved by the necessity of frequent late nights in the office but work has been pretty light of late.

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#36 Re: Training on your own
April 04, 2017, 08:22:32 pm
This.


+2

Since #2 was born 4 months ago, I've made it to the wall twice. Every other session has been in the garage after 10 at night, once the rest of the household is sleeping. It's the only peace in the day.

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#37 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 07:47:46 am
Having kids sounds shit

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#38 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 08:07:22 am
have a thrash on the woodie every night

Fnarr.

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#39 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 09:03:24 am
Having kids sounds shit

It's not a good idea if the priority in your life is climbing and you don't envisage changing that. Some people really shouldn't have em!

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#40 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 10:02:02 am
Having kids sounds shit

You're thinking about it all wrong. Imagine having your own little knee bar disciples - you could unleash all your training knowledge on them. Build an 8c circuit around their bedroom...

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#41 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 10:07:28 am
Plus a ready supply of subordinate future spotters, years after any sane person is tired of standing there watching you shake out.

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#42 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 10:10:44 am
Who are always in total awe of your abilities...

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#43 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 10:51:17 am
Being somebody who can barely look after a pint let alone a child, it's nice to read some of these positive spins on having them.

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#44 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 11:37:14 am
Given my inability to look after myself it still amazes me mine are still (mostly) intact.

I gave them a shot on the treadmill in the garage the other day (when mum was away for the weekend).

"Make it go Faster daddy faster!"

"Ok mind your back on the lawnmower!"

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#45 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 11:41:05 am
Being somebody who can barely look after a pint let alone a child, it's nice to read some of these positive spins on having them.


I was unwittingly wise enough to wait until I'd peaked at climbing before I had kids (unlike some of these strong Dads who are still getting stuff done).


This has proved beneficial in my case, as it has providing me with a permanent excuse for non-achievement, plus lowered my expectations so far that pretty much anything other than a warm-up is an bonus for the ego.

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#46 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 12:26:33 pm
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Having kids sounds shit

Amen! Plus overpopulation is a massive issue, think I'll pass

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#47 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 12:39:08 pm
You can have up to two kids guilt-free on the population front.

For the record I've climbed consistently harder since having kids than before. I fact I put down to soley the life-giving inspirational properties of fatherhood, and in no way due to having been shit before, eating like it was going out of fashion and never really training.

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#48 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 01:10:27 pm
Who are always in total awe of your abilities...

Yeah, right ...

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#49 Re: Training on your own
April 05, 2017, 01:12:11 pm
Who are always in total awe of your abilities...

Yeah, right ...

Shhhh...!

 

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