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katiebird
Sport climber
austin
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 23, 2006 - 12:03am PT
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So, I'm up here in the big apple jonsin' for some climbing and i decide to hit up one of the gyms. keep in mind that i've no partner with me and time is of the essence, thus a quick trip to the gunks ain't happenin'. so i go to the gym and i'm totally unimpressed. it was small, the routes sucked and in general so did the climbers. i played around in the cave for a while until the muchismo fest rolled in and wnated to show off their ever so honed-in flailing skills. whatever, gyms suck! can't wait to be in the granite comfort of yosemite soon.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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May 23, 2006 - 12:12am PT
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What a pleasure you must be, judging from your post.
How nice of you to share these good feelings.
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Anastasia
Trad climber
Near a mountain, CA
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May 23, 2006 - 12:14am PT
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"Laughing."
The only gym I have ever liked is one that is being run by a big wall climber. I consider myself lucky to have Boulderdash in Calabasas CA.
Even though it can't replace rock, it gives a good workout when the season is wet. Plus it is full of good climbers that have spent years on rock before playing with plastic. Everyone is pretty friendly and not easily impressed.
Like I said, I'm lucky to have it near.
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Anastasia
Trad climber
Near a mountain, CA
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May 23, 2006 - 12:20am PT
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Shush Dirt, girls need to express themselves to reach normalcy.
Shut them up and you'll be asking for it.
I'm sorry Dude, it is our nature...
I think it's better then what guys do when they strut around, swing their dicks while doing the stare off with other men. You can sense the competition until they reach an agreement to shake hands.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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May 23, 2006 - 12:30am PT
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Sorry, Ishould hvae realized that the way fro a new gal to win friends and influence people would be to say negative, nasty, unkind things about every aspect of everything she did that day.
Silly me.
You are right, I just don't understand women.
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maculated
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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May 23, 2006 - 12:34am PT
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I dunno, give it a try instead of being so elitist.
I laughed at SLO-Op when I heard about it, but the guy who had started it sought me out and helped me join. Now I'm running a better version of it with him. And I LOOVE my SLO-Op. I love Tuesday nights with the crew, I love the routes to play on, love the tunes. It's not regular climbing, but it's great, and I'm getting better.
Yay for gyms.
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WBraun
climber
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May 23, 2006 - 01:38am PT
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What are all those goofy colored tags for?
What a nightmare, you guys climb in that environment? Yech, blah, phfffftttt, uggghhhh!.
Hahahaha, ok, .... so you do.
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pyro
Trad climber
Ventura
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May 23, 2006 - 01:51am PT
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Hey! I just joined the GYM.
The "Climbing Gym"....
I joined because I missed my best past time of working out in
the garage. listening to friends and their about their day.
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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May 23, 2006 - 01:56am PT
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Ha Ha! Locker is a gym climber!!
(not that there's anything wrong with that)
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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May 23, 2006 - 02:37am PT
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Climbing gyms rock! so to speak.
But it's not the same, at best a fractle of what can be found ...
Do-loop to the cave analogy
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lightweight_yank
Trad climber
Sparx
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May 23, 2006 - 03:19am PT
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Yeah, climbing gyms suck, but some of us have to live in the city and groom poodles for a living.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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May 23, 2006 - 03:21am PT
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NO locker, I have no idea what you are talking about.
I climb outside, most often on new rock, with a very small group of friends, usually no more than 4, more often just two of us, and we all get along, we are all older, and we don't ever have stupid young anti social bimbo wannbe climber chicks or dudes wander up to sashay around.
In fact, we almost never see anyone else, and if we do, we usually know them.
People with the attitude of the bird woman or the guys you are talking about would not be welcome, but they normally would not find us anyway.
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slayton
Trad climber
Morongo Valley, Ca
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May 23, 2006 - 03:25am PT
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Lightweight yank: ".. . .but some of us have to live in the city and groom poodles for a living."
Not "have to" but "get to".
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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May 23, 2006 - 03:42am PT
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I guess folks make the best with what they have.
Isn't that why all those macho guys go for other guys in prison?
When I was going to Berkeley, there as no Gym. I would have totally joined if there were. I had to buy a motorcycle to get some adreniline. I went to Indian Rock a few times but nobody was ever there and there was no beta anywhere. Just seemed like a pile after yosemite but I hate bouldering
Peace
Karl
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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May 23, 2006 - 06:44am PT
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The OP was judgmental about the gym, the climbers in it, and the boulderers. The author pretty clearly implies that she was better than the other climbers. (She does not flail, of course.) Further, it extrapolated based on the experience of one "small gym" to all gyms.
Perhaps she just was having a bad day. "Time is of the essence." People in NYC do tend to let themselves believe that.
Nobody forced her to go to the gym. If she does not like them, she does not have to go again. (What are the odds that she will visit another gym? I would put it at 1:8.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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May 23, 2006 - 07:20am PT
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Hey Karl, don't diss Indian Rock. It was handy for us East Bayers and I met some top climbers there - Chris Fredericks, Galen Rowell, Patrick Sawyer... ooops nix that last one, he ain't no top climber, according to his alter ego - Doug.
(My first name is Douglas, Patrick is my middle, I am also a Gemini, you know... split personality, heh heh)
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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May 23, 2006 - 08:34am PT
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Locker, spoken like a true entourage climber, I must say.
Mind your own store.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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May 23, 2006 - 09:25am PT
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I know the gym....59th Street. The place has a mix of "regulars" and "new to NY" climbers and people who go there because the memebrship is $250/yr vs. $600 (or $2,500! if you go to Chelsea Piers.....)
It's Gunks season, and those who climb outside are not in the gym at this time of year. It's just the regular guys, there are a few, who gym climb exclusively and possibly will boulder in Central Park.
The cave is small. Only 1 person can play at a time, and so....I guess it would suck to see the empty cave, start playing, and then find not one, not two but three others drifting over. Now one has to wait their turn....when only a few minutes ago, those same folks were engaged on the other walls, bouldering......
The girl was just jonesing for some climbing, didn't get her fix and tried to create a Seinfeldian diorama for us. She couldn't get her climbing on, so she did the next thing that came to mind - post up in her community..... There's no need for anyone to judge anything about her. She's probably a very nice person in real life.....
Katie - if you ever are in NYC again - I won't go gym climbing with you but will be happy to show you the Central Park boulders. And if you need a partner for the Gunks, let me know as well. Though I am not a hard climber, I am an attentive belay and I know the area.
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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May 23, 2006 - 11:06am PT
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Anastasia said, "I think it's better then what guys do when they strut around, swing their dicks while doing the stare off with other men. You can sense the competition until they reach an agreement to shake hands. "
sttzo said "Anastasia - What do you mean? After the handshake, it simply becomes "friendly competition" :-). "
I think she is referring to the "I will shake yours if you shake mine guys" This is an interpretation and not an offer...
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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May 23, 2006 - 11:42am PT
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Locker, you've already forgotten: Hanger 18 is in Upland and about twenty miles from Riverside. It is also wellknown for its wretched music.
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