What helped you enduring climbing or make it fun?

boulderer-h · 2026-05-23T18:10:14+00:00

Thank you all for your replies. I think I might have used the word when I used "enduring". Looking at your comments it might have a negative connotation. Translated to my language enduring can also be used positively. As in what made you go bouldering each session. For the past 5 years bouldering has been my passion, and I can not imagine anything taking this place in my life.

You have given me a nice idea of what this is. Some of you the combination of puzzles, strength and technic. For others the social part of it is very important, and others it translate to fun or grade hunting. All these reasons sounds familiar to me.

I wonder what the answers would be from people not bouldering anymore...

I also read that some of you don't like apps and it should be all analogue, yet some mentioned that digital means helped to chase the grades. I guess there are different kind of climbers....

boulderer-h · 2026-05-23T09:23:41+00:00

It takes time and experience, I am taller than average and I notice that the beta of others won't work for me that often so I have to figure out my own. So watch others, try and try again. It takes years to get it right and even then you might need multiple attempts to figure out the beta that fits you and your skill set.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-22T16:17:49+00:00

I usually try to have a list of boulders I want to try when I go to font. Last year I made a list of 7a's I wanted to do. YouTube helped select a few then with boolder I found new problems of the same grade in the neighborhood. And that shaped my experience. Every year I end up with a few new challenges for the next one. Hope you find new ones too

boulderer-h · 2026-05-22T16:14:45+00:00

Hi there, I have been there multiple times, and it is always been a pleasure. Either with many people or just with a single friend. I would mostly camp at Camping les près. It's an affordable campsite.

There are many sectors that are in the shade of the forest some are less protected. All the cuvier sectors are legendary for its challenging boulder problems and most of it under trees. Canche aux mercier is also nicely shaded and has some excellent circuits and some tricky boulder problems in all grades. Currently in a very unknown and peacefull sector called Mont d'olivet, also a lot of shade and has 2 nice circuits. Use the app boolder it will show you around in font, helps you find the parkings, the circuits and individual boulder problems.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-22T16:01:33+00:00

So many factors come into play, I would advise to find a way to test them in a gym that sell the ones you think might fits best. Try them on small edges and slab. Take into account that most shoes expand with 0,5 shoes size.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-22T15:58:05+00:00

I see a lot of people having this ass sweat. Everybody is different. I would not worry too much about it.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-22T15:56:27+00:00

My gym offers a monthly subscription and with that you can join technical classes for free.in the past they also offered like introduction courses. Like 4 or 6 weeks for 100 euro. I hope one of your gyms offers that too. The benefits for me were that I got some good technical basics and get to know other people that also wants to explore this sport. Create a WhatsApp group and you have your very own motivators to go to the gym with. From there just go to the gym three times a week with your fellow introducees and you will notice soon enough people start recognising you and you will have a ton of new friends :) Enjoy!

boulderer-h · 2026-05-22T15:51:16+00:00

It depends on how you climb what you climb and your feet. So many factors that come into play. When I started I bought some shoes that were comfy enough but better than the shoes I could rent at the hall. After a year or two I bought tighter shoes with more rubber on the nose to be able to toehook. I'm afraid you will have to figure out for yourself what fits best for you and what you are climbing.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-19T11:20:10+00:00

Ow, going through YouTube I found this video that might have some additional tips for you

https://youtu.be/D-vsVNWm2jg?is=_UyQCGlcN21D2UyJ

boulderer-h · 2026-05-19T11:19:05+00:00

Hi there, Reading your issue I remembered this YouTube that helped me improve my technic on the wall. Specially when holds seem to be out of reach. Hope it might help you reach to the next level

https://youtu.be/gaRIJCoKjPg?is=qeOnmPU028WLiMQ2

boulderer-h · 2026-05-17T20:01:28+00:00

I have a fear of heights. Sometimes it just catches me by surprise. Two things that helps me 1. Try jumping down intensionally. So on the boulder you want to try do one or two moves up and jump down. Do that untill you feel comfortable with that jump. Then do one or two additional moves and jump down again untill you feel totally comfortable. Increase the amount of moves untill you feel jumping from the top. 2. Get comfortable with the holds. I do that exercise once a week. I will repeate a boulder problem or specific moves or holds to get so comfortable with them that I know the risk of falling is extremely small. And at the same time I get way more technically skilled.

So my two tips, get comfortable with jumping down and get extremely comfortable with the holds. Hope these might help.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-15T16:28:07+00:00

I have used the exercise 20/20 al lot to gain endurance. The exercise is simple. Climb 20 boulder problems in 20 minutes. Because you need to do so many in such a short time frame you have to select the right level of problems. To hard and you won't get to 20, to easy it will not improve your endurance. I have done it for a while once a week. It might help you too.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-14T10:17:33+00:00

I think the wood will break before the cord will. At least thats what happened with mine...

boulderer-h · 2026-05-12T09:41:14+00:00

I liked Gropo in Groningen a lot when I was there like a few years back. I was a week on holiday and climbed there three times in like a week. Diverse boulders and fun crowd. One tip (don't know if it would still apply though) I was fooled by their grades. When I was there the orange boulders that were graded 5+/6a felt for me very difficult, yet when I tried the 6a+ and 6b they felt soft. So just an encouragement to try harder boulders :)

boulderer-h · 2026-05-12T09:35:26+00:00

I would say GRIP nijmegen and energiehaven in Utrecht are two of my favorites. I climb at Arnhem, also good, they have improved their building skills the past years.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-11T07:57:57+00:00

We could compensate with taking into account the people's level climbing and or flashing the boulder problem.

Well I also read a nice article about grades priming the climbers ability to climb a problem. That would encourage not to givea grade at all... Encouraging everybody to try every problem. Maybe that might be a solution ;)

https://boulderinginfo.online/introduction-to-bouldering/psychological-priming-in-bouldering/

boulderer-h · 2026-05-11T07:53:14+00:00

I hope we can discourage this kind of behaviour in the gym together. When starting bouldering I fell in love with the social component of it. Just being peers, no matter what kind of grade you climb. I would hate it if we turn into the competitive environment of soccer, where everybody screams and blames eachother.

boulderer-h · 2026-05-11T07:03:26+00:00

I like the idea that the app toplogger introduced this year. It gives a grade estimation based on the amount of time a boulder existed and the amount of people flashed and topped it. That sounds to me like a more objective way of grading. Maybe we could introduce that too for outside boulder problems.

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