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What is it about Bouldering that turns you on? 5-Aug-2004 At 3:43:11 PM Pei

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On 3/08/2004 A5iswhereitsat wrote:
>A number of contributors have commented on 'working the move/s till you
>stick it'.
>I can see the satisfaction in this as a one-off.
>
>Do any of you come back to those hard problems at a later time and use
>them as a measure of how much you have improved/slacked off, during the
>interim?

Since at the moment for me most of the bouldering I do is indoors (if this counts as bouldering!), most of the problems are changed after a period of time. Although I once attempted some bouldering at Contos Rocks, WA when I was just beginning and couldn't pull any moves, but when I went back half a year later I was much better - it was quite satisfying to see the progress I had made. I guess it's really just like climbs - sometimes you go back and try some climbs to see how much easier/harder they feel compared to the last time.

>If you manage to stick something after much effort working it, do you
>then go the next stage and try to 'consolidate the grade' so to speak?;
>or are you happy enough to walk away and never return to that problem,
>due to having already 'ticked it' ??

Just like climbing really - it depends on your own personal approach. For me at the moment, once I've done a climb I tend not to do it again for a long time. Same with boulder problems. For me, I have limited time on real rock, and wish to try as many routes/problems as possible. I guess for me, I'm at that stage where I'm trying to increase the number of routes I've climbed to get more experience and build up my technique.