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Lead fall Hard Rock CBD 25-Jul-2008 At 3:32:41 PM bluey

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On 25/07/2008 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>I did heaps of climbing in gyms when I lived in Melbourne, and I'm of the
>opinion that it was the worst thing for my climbing. Forget belaying,
>clipping leading etc etc yadda yadda yadda, it's all about using your feet.

Good point - in the last 6 months I've barely hit a gym but have jumped up a couple of grades for trad onsights. I attribute this to being outdoors heaps (doing a course on guiding climbs as well as my own recreational stuff), and doing lots of stuff around rock that wasn't necessarily challenging climbing (e.g. lots of gear placement in anchor set-ups, guiding and getting to know easy routes at Araps that require FOOTWORK).

Went back to the gym a couple of weeks ago for the first time in months, and felt like a weakling and couldn't get up stuff I used to cruise, despite climbing far better outdoors. The following week, went back to the gym again and decided to not think, just climb and crank hard...and got up more stuff but no doubt added little to my climbing ability.