2018-07-16 00:20![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
grok_mctanys
grok_mctanysI appear to have levelled-up my bouldering climbing skill.
At the climbing gym I regularly go to, they have sets of problems (routes) with similar difficulties. So they'll have a set of problems at grade 3, a set of problems at grade 4, a set of problems at grade 5, etc... (using the "font" scale). Each set of problems stays up for 2-3 months, before being taken down and re-set as a different set of problems of a similar grade.
I've mostly been doing the grade 5 problems for a while now, with the occasional foray into a 5+/6a problem, but in every grade 5 set until now there's always been a handful of problems I've not been able to do (in some cases, not even been able to start) before they were taken down.
Today, that changed! I completed the last 5 problems of the current grade 5 set.
They were tricky, took a number of attempts, and a couple felt like I was about to fall off at any moment, but once I'd figured them out, they felt doable. One particular problem that I thought was going to stump me for a couple more weeks at least, turned out to require a fair bit less strength that I thought I was going to need, once I figured out just the right sequence of hand movements, foot/heel placements, body twisting and weight shifting.
It's slow progress, considering how long I've been doing this now, but it is progress.
Of course, now I have to work on the 5+/6a set of problems, which will feel impossible! Ah well.
At the climbing gym I regularly go to, they have sets of problems (routes) with similar difficulties. So they'll have a set of problems at grade 3, a set of problems at grade 4, a set of problems at grade 5, etc... (using the "font" scale). Each set of problems stays up for 2-3 months, before being taken down and re-set as a different set of problems of a similar grade.
I've mostly been doing the grade 5 problems for a while now, with the occasional foray into a 5+/6a problem, but in every grade 5 set until now there's always been a handful of problems I've not been able to do (in some cases, not even been able to start) before they were taken down.
Today, that changed! I completed the last 5 problems of the current grade 5 set.
They were tricky, took a number of attempts, and a couple felt like I was about to fall off at any moment, but once I'd figured them out, they felt doable. One particular problem that I thought was going to stump me for a couple more weeks at least, turned out to require a fair bit less strength that I thought I was going to need, once I figured out just the right sequence of hand movements, foot/heel placements, body twisting and weight shifting.
It's slow progress, considering how long I've been doing this now, but it is progress.
Of course, now I have to work on the 5+/6a set of problems, which will feel impossible! Ah well.
