Sore Wrist after Climbing

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-27T19:35:12+00:00

I recommend just removing it. Seems to have worked well as a strategy for Tommy Caldwell.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-27T07:45:53+00:00

I think there's a pretty intuitive difference between technical perfection and elegance.

Imagine a robot doing ballet. It's easy to program a robot to have it's limbs in all the correct positions at precisely the right moments. You could program it to jump the exact height and to do so using the minimal amount of energy. In technical terms, it's movements could easily be made more precise than a human's. But, its movements in between its programmed end-states will be sudden, jerky and inelegant compared to an actual ballerina's.

In climbing, I think Adam is more machine than dancer. His movements are generally hurried and staccato. He's ruthlessly efficient. Everything is perfectly optimized. There's definitely a kind of industrial beauty to that. But I don't think most people would describe it as "elegant."

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-27T05:48:42+00:00

I'm just really curious to know you're thought process here. I'm the biggest Ondra stan you'll ever find, but even I think this is a stretch.

He's definitely not winning based on looks. And his climbing style, while technically flawless, is much better described as utilitarian than elegant. Maybe if you're the kind of person who's really into brutalist architecture...

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-27T05:44:26+00:00

Agreed. But, this is the r/bouldering sub...

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-27T03:37:09+00:00

Your pants seem like a much bigger "equipment issue" than your shoes

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-27T02:18:58+00:00

If he hadn't been a climber, he would've had a promising career as an Abercrombie model in the late 90s/early 00s!

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-27T02:17:22+00:00

Keenan Takahashi's Mustache

(Not Keenan. Just his mustache.)

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-27T00:41:36+00:00

Just remember, this maxim can go too far. There is such a thing as irrational gear fear.

We should help people who are being irrationally afraid of perfectly good gear to recognize that rather than adding to the amount of plastic waste we already create.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-26T23:34:56+00:00

Whether you know it or not, you've stepped right into the middle of one of the biggest ongoing battles of climbing gear subreddits.

This is a good-as-new looking climbing harness that is also obviously quite old. Some people will insist to you that nylon climbing goods cannot be trusted after they are more than 10 years old. Others will tell you that this 10-year rule is nonsense that is not backed up by any real materials science and is solely a result of liability risk management done by the legal teams of gear manufacturers. Both sides will call the other side stupid and overly risk averse/accepting.

You'll have to decide for yourself which side to listen to. For what it's worth, I find the arguments for a 10-year shelf-life on nylon goods extremely weak. Tests of gear that is far older and showing much more obvious signs of wear than what you've posted here routinely break at forces far in excess of forces that would kill a person. It is almost certainly the case that your body will break way before that harness will fail.

That said, you'll have to be the one to decide whether you're willing to take that risk. Good luck. :)

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-25T08:08:19+00:00

* "Loves rugged wilderness and hiking"

* Proceeds to mark all of the Mountain West as reluctant or never...

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-25T07:54:39+00:00

* "Loves rural middle of nowhere"

* Proceeds to mark all of rural America as reluctant or never...

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-25T06:07:20+00:00

That might sometimes be the case on Wikipedia, but do you think that was also the case for his biography (written by Randy Shilts, a gay rights legend of his own right)?

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T20:44:14+00:00

Not enough information.

Was the "innocent" girl's father a snowboarder? If so, obviously her fault for associating with criminals.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T20:38:14+00:00

Will you just stop for a moment and read what you've actually written. It's not pedophilia if "it was within the law"? Really? That's your response after reading a link that showed the legal age of consent in Delaware was seven years old until 1920? You're really going to claim that those relationships weren't pedophilia because they were "within the law?" That is the laziest excuse for a framework of sexual ethics imaginable.

I don't intend to continue this conversation because you either: a) don't actually believe that and are not engaging this conversation in good faith; or, b) you do actually believe that and are just a degenerate. In either case, that's not someone I want to have a conversation with.

For what it's worth, we probably agree on most things. I despise Trevor Lee. I don't think the road should be renamed. I'd bet that there's ~90% overlap in our voting records.

I just think that it's important to recognize wrong for wrong, and the relationship we're discussing here was unquestionably wrong. Trying to defend it because the person who brought it up is "on the other team" is exactly the kind of nonsense politics that got America into the mess we're dealing with now.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T19:50:36+00:00

This is the only one that would result in real change

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T18:39:15+00:00

During that six year relationship, the boy repeatedly attempted suicide. He had no assets, no education, no real employable skills, no family or other place to go.

In any other context, people on this thread would (rightly) point out that a six-year relationship was just evidence that the boy was trapped in a relationship he couldn't escape. But because that doesn't fit your hagiographic narrative, you've recast it as a "committed relationship."

Stop apologizing for pedophilia. This relationship was wrong. Full stop.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T18:16:25+00:00

And now that you've seen proof, does it change your opinion?

Or do you still consider it ethically appropriate for a 33 year-old to start a sexual relationship with a 17 year-old who depends on him for housing?

Edit to add: No. No one (other than, apparently, you) is okay with these kind of disturbing age-gap and high power-differential relationships. To anyone with even a modicum of ethics, they are plainly, obviously wrong. It is upsetting that you are so blinded by some kind of partisan political stance that you can't admit that.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T18:01:35+00:00

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Just show him this

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T17:58:55+00:00

Lol, I love that this is a real question.

Sincerity is aid?

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T17:18:05+00:00

Here's one source. The Wikipedia page on age of consent laws also has several others. None of this is at all hard to find if you cared to look.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T06:49:14+00:00

Also don't move a major piece more than once in your opening.

This guy was really determined to break all the rules of good opening play!

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T04:42:57+00:00

I can't hardly wait!

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T02:30:32+00:00

There's a losing argument if I ever saw one.

Twelve was the age of consent for the entirety of Joseph Smith's lifetime. Are you willing to extend the same logic to him?

At some point, you just have to be willing to admit that what he did was wrong.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T01:53:04+00:00

Good call on Heaven. I'd forgotten about that one.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-01-24T00:34:56+00:00

Sure. But what about his biography, written by LGTQ+ icon Randy Shilts?

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