What do you hate most about rock gyms?
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I get lost with all the similar colored tape. It seems like they could put a light green tape and a darker green tape route farther apart. When I was younger, I was a tape MASTER! Now I'm not. |
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TP in SLC wrote:Momentum here in SLC rules! All the same colored holds for each route. It makes for good climbing if you got a short attention span.I agree, Tyler. Except for when two similar colors are set side by side. I love Momentum, but have one major complaint: they really need to clean the cracks. I know several people who have gotten infections after climbing the cracks there, one was hospitalized last year. |
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I find them lacking in that outdoors aspect. |
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Gym Rats, epsecially those have take there shirts off.
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Waiting for a rope when there are people top-roping and their lead rope is lying on the ground next to them for half an hour. |
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NO BEER!!! what's bouldering if you can't enjoy an nice "athletic" beverage such as Coor's banquet, Ham's Premium, or PBR (the good old pabst smear). I also can't get over the grimyness of all the holds. but as an added benefit the climbing wall on campus shares a room with the cardio machines, Mmm Mmm Mmm stanky indoor climbing with spectators!!! whats not to like? Oh yea, unsolicited beta! |
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1) Breathing in chalk dust. |
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movement doesn't have NEARLY enough lead ropes. even when the place is fairly deserted, you end up waiting for a couple hours to get one. if you get one at all. |
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Hank Caylor wrote:What do you hate most about rock gyms?They breed a modernized yuppie version of the crusty old trad climber that whines incessantly about gyms, yet climbs in them. |
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I really despise people who judge me for taking my shirt off, cursing, shouting out confusing beta, and setting kids on boulder problems directly below them. |
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Ryan Kelly wrote: They breed a modernized yuppie version of the crusty old trad climber that whines incessantly about gyms, yet climbs in them.Chill out Ryan, I climb circles around you. No crust here dude. |
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Kid Parties |
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Ryan Kelly wrote: They breed a modernized yuppie version of the crusty old trad climber that whines incessantly about gyms, yet climbs in them.Hey, most of us were modernized before gyms came along. And we don't whine about gyms, we whine about all the tools from gyms who go outdoors and treat it like the gym. My gym peeves: Way too easy to overtrain and get injured. Those shallow, flared things they call "cracks". |
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Jackasses |
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When I'm at the rock gym I hate that I'm not at a real crag, with real rock. |
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sums it up: |
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i hate when i run into mp users. i like that my gym is shared by lots of college girls on treadmills. I, like matt, also hate jackasses. And kids. And no beer or weed. Man why do i climb in the gym? |
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Bobby Hanson wrote: I love Momentum, but have one major complaint: they really need to clean the cracks. I know several people who have gotten infections after climbing the cracks there, one was hospitalized last year.I've suggested that they put up a sign that just says tape is required. Gobie mixing is gross. |
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Don't hate anything about gyms, so difficult to rank. |
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A lot of things...but the two that bother me the most are inconsiderate folks and the people that climb barefoot. I don't want to touch your toe cheese... |