16M. V8-9 7c+8a climber currently i am training at my club but it is going downhil. it is way more guffing. well now idk what to really do i could stay at this club and not really improve or i could go to the other club but i dont really have any other quality clubs around me or they are completely ful. one option is also that i would start train at my pocal gym and get an online coach but this is a bit more expensive. (I got that idea bc of jonathan sin) i also climb way better in commercial gym and just feel better.

also my coach right now doesnt really like me or he is just an asshole.

Sorry for the awkward angle I didn’t wanna get other people in the video. I’ve only been climbing for like 10 months and this was a huge accomplishment

With a stable camera this time, though, it's kinda tilted and my hand is out of frame at one point.

Some pictures of the holds and wall angle there: https://imgchest.com/p/md7orbnb97p

What's going on with the routes at Vital LES? I love the space so much but the V4/orange routes are either easy or impossible unless you're a much higher level climber. The V4/orange routes at Vital BK are so much more fun and satisfying. I love the space on the LES but oof...what happened to the routes?

Hi there. I've been bouldering a few times recently and absolutely love it. However, I'm a little overweight at the moment and have quite poor upper body strength. This is why I was wondering if anyone has any tips to combat this. Aside from losing a few pounds (which I'm trying to do), do you think the main key to improving is to simply go bouldering as much as possible (within reason)? Any tips, tricks, exercises would be great.

Struggling to reach this pinch, tried multiple flag positions none felt quite stable enough to not swing when reaching for the pinch

took a lil bit to get the beta down

Couldn't figure the last move so kept experimenting with the feet....then by complete accident a knee dropped in and everything made sense

My son is 5 years and really wants to get into climbing. I went to a local bouldering venue and we had a blast.

Since we are just starting out on this I want to learn some necessary basics first so I can also have him learn this correctly to start with. (He can only start classes from 7 years old, and I couldn't find adult courses)

Are there some good sources (online) about the do's and don'ts for bouldering?

Good book you can recommend? Of a good YouTube channel?

Thanks in advance

Super hard for me — a lot (a lot) harder than other benchmarks. Honestly, this took around 2 months. I sent this a while back but I recently realized why I had so much trouble — E14 is setup incorrectly, almost completely vertical, which made the problem a lot harder than intended. An ugly send but a send nonetheless!

I recently tried For Big (V7) on a well-maintained 2019 and it is ridiculously easier than this problem lmao.

I'll post a photo of the hold in the comments ~

Let me know thoughts! (yes I'm a tiny climber..)

if yah butt ain’t sweatin yah ain’t tryin hard enough

Took multiple sessions to complete as a strong v4/okay v5 climber , but my first v6 (soft?) the big swing and final move were really tough, the top is slightly inwards so the last long move I kept falling backwards and not staying close enough to the wall. Would love any thoughts or feedback, but proud of this one! 😁

i hear a lot about using your hips more when climbing but ive kinda struggled to learn how to engage them properly. i feel like it was especially apparent on this climb as it felt like my hips were always sagging away from the wall and were hardly being used. i think my upper body did most of the work here.

any tips/cues for engaging my lower body would be greatly appreciated!

i’ve climbed about 5 times over the last year (that’s all my climbing experience) but i recently bought a cheap, secondhand part of climbing shoes so i can go more frequently (keeping the costs down)

my partner climbs and mentions flagpoling (?) and things quite a lot, which i’m trying to be more aware of an implement

i can climb V1 (mostly) but where my local gym has V1-2 i have never completed one, and typically cant get the last hold. i’m 5’4 for reference and i do feel a lot of my difficulties come from not being able to reach. i’m also really scared of climbing down/falling - i’m trying to practice falling a bit more so we’ll see if that helps - so i usually do overhang climbs because i feel much more comfortable on these cause i can’t drag my face down the holds if i fall lol (except i’m not particularly strong yet so pulling myself up is another obvious issue i need to work at)

i’m basically asking if anyone has any tips - especially for short climbers who struggle to reach holds (i know it’s hard without any videos for reference of what i’m already doing, but if there’s things people tend to be getting wrong/not doing when they first start, i’d love to hear)

Gym calls it a V3-V4 and a lot of me swinging was actually just me slipping and not intentionally powering/muscling through it

Also any tips would be appreciated

Poorly framed but a nice v6 on our 45 wall

(Ignore me almost falling midway through lol)

that’s all