I know that a number of Arsians climb, or have climbed, and since I've got a couple of hours to kill before the IFSC Lead Finals in Innsbruck starts and am still waiting for my friends to come back from mountain biking (I'm currently nursing a cracked ankle joint, so I am out of all of that for 5-7 more weeks) I'm gonna make a thread about it 
Climbers of all sorts welcome, as well as people that always were curious and wanted to ask about it. Tell us what you like about the sport, what you'd want to try, your goals for thsoe of us who just have to have that in our lifes.
Let's see if this thing as legs, or if it drops as fast as me trying a competition route.
To start out with, the area of the sport I personally enjoy most is outdoor, alpine multipitch climbing, but due to time constraints most of the climbing I end up doing is bouldering and indoor climbing in the gym. Prior to last year I had a long pause, but since then I worked myself back up to being able to do VII-ish (UIAA) on lead and 6B-6C (Fontainbleau) on boulder, depending on the gym. This is why I'm so pissed myself for my foot injury -- being able to pretty consistently do most 6B and some 6B+ at my home gym is a relatively recent thing for me, so I am dreading how much those two 6-8 weeks of no climbing will set me back.
Since it is an Olympic discipline since 2020 maybe also a bit of commentary on competition climbing, at least those who are following it?
Despite doing the sport for a couple decades on/off I've only started to watch competition climbing a couple months ago, and I've to say I am quite enjoying it. Well, except for speed climbing; that one is just weird.
Climbers of all sorts welcome, as well as people that always were curious and wanted to ask about it. Tell us what you like about the sport, what you'd want to try, your goals for thsoe of us who just have to have that in our lifes.
Let's see if this thing as legs, or if it drops as fast as me trying a competition route.
To start out with, the area of the sport I personally enjoy most is outdoor, alpine multipitch climbing, but due to time constraints most of the climbing I end up doing is bouldering and indoor climbing in the gym. Prior to last year I had a long pause, but since then I worked myself back up to being able to do VII-ish (UIAA) on lead and 6B-6C (Fontainbleau) on boulder, depending on the gym. This is why I'm so pissed myself for my foot injury -- being able to pretty consistently do most 6B and some 6B+ at my home gym is a relatively recent thing for me, so I am dreading how much those two 6-8 weeks of no climbing will set me back.
Since it is an Olympic discipline since 2020 maybe also a bit of commentary on competition climbing, at least those who are following it?
Despite doing the sport for a couple decades on/off I've only started to watch competition climbing a couple months ago, and I've to say I am quite enjoying it. Well, except for speed climbing; that one is just weird.