Introduction To Rock Climbing

Rock climbing is a sport for numerous types of people. It’s a sport where you have to learn to obtain a very positive mental attitude. Some of the information that runs through the climbers head very frequently is “I Can Do It”, “Just Do It” and etc. Those are the phrases that are frequently used in a climber’s mental head.

Rock climbing can be done by virtually anyone. The only pre-requisite that is needed to do rock climbing is the positive mental attitude, tenacity to try even though encountering multiple failures and also a just do it attitude. The rest can be obtained along the way and the new climber will have a lot of fun doing it and learning from experience.

There are two types of rock climbing one would be the indoor climbing and the other would be the outmost famous outdoor climbing. Majority of the people prefers to climb indoor nowadays, but there are still a lot of people that climb outdoors. The reason why the newer generation prefer the indoors because it is normally very convenient compared to the outdoor climbing. The new climber would also be able to train very specific moves to increase their skill in a certain area.

There are a lot of excuses that people normally give themselves before they even try the sport. Some of the popular excuses are “I can’t do it”, “I have very weak arms”, “I am not able to pull myself up”, “I like it, but I don’t have time” and the list goes on and on. The best mental approach for new climbers to approach all this negativity is to change their mental mindset to a more positive one like “I may not be able to do it now, but in the future I would be able to” , “Just Do It”, “One More Try!” and many more. As long as the mental expect is positive, it will be good for the climber.

The trend that is available nowadays would be for the new climber to start indoors in a gym. There are pros and cons to this aspect. The pros would be it’s in a contained environment, it’s quite cooling most of the time, it’s also convenient and the most important aspect would be mentally the climber feels very safe. The cons would be the new climber would not be able to experience the great outdoors, the different technical moves that a climber needs and also the creativity level to learn and explore the moves would be quite different compared to indoor climbing. The new climber would normally be spoon fed a lot in the indoor gyms.

There will be quite a number of skills that the new climber would need to pick up along the way. When a new climber sees a more experience climber climbing, the new climber would be thinking this person is a natural. REMEMBER this, the experienced climber has put in a lot of “sweat and blood” into training to be like that. If the new climber goes through the same process as the experienced climber, he would get the same results too.

For new climbers, stop thinking and just go and climb! No PAIN no GAIN!