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hi megan! welcome back
oh hi we were talking about ashima, right? shes amazing
hahaha yesssss she is amazing
and so is alex megos
I remember when she climbed like a v14 or something when she was like 9 years old alex is very strong kid but I feel like hes really underrated for some reason
Yeah I feel like people who have been climbing their whole life have a huge advantage because having good technique is probably easier to learn when you're younger
yeah it is. Thats why I am going to start my kids young who knows maybe they will become an olympic climber
that'd be awesome...although I don't really like the format it'll be during the olympics
what do you think about sasha not climbing as hard as she used to? Do you think she is too busy with fame and sponsorship from like adidas and stuff?
I don't know, she seems pretty busy so maybe
yeah she was a big face in climbing as a child prodigy like ashima
oh I didn't know so are there a lot of avid rock climbers at BYU?
yes there are a lot of climbers at BYU. I think though a lot of them are more casual though
Do you know why there isn't a BYU team registered with USA climbing for the collegiate championships?
I think maybe because BYU cares only about football and basketball? hahaa that is my biased opinion I don't like BYU provo because all they really pride in is that and they don't really care about other stuff like rock climbing or recognizing video game clubs
:( I'll get them to care about it when I get there lol
yessss I will help you i found another climber here!!!
that's awesome. I'm from the midwest so I'm super excited to go to school surrounded by mountaing *mountains
yessss the provo valley is unreal world class climbing without an hour of Campus
It's so beautiful there
yeah it is. so I found a good way to describe boulder vs sport climbing you want to here?
sure
so bouldering and sport climbing is like the difference between sprinting and long distance. bouldering you need a lot of power are all a short distance but sport you have to pace your self so you dont get pumped out
That's so true
pretty good huh? I just thought of that
yeah. I have a friend who started out bouldering, so he got really powerful, but then he started leading and for some reason he never seems to get pumped so he's super good it's hard to figure out when to rest and when to keep climbing because you need to be efficient with energy
yeah thats awesome! I like to always switch around the climbs so that I don't get used to one thing and so that I don't plateau oooh that is a really good topic we can talk about. rest days and nutrition
oh I'm terrible at nutrition lol... I guess I could be worse, but I could be better once I didn't eat treats for a month because my dad told me that every time I ate a treat, that would  make me get to one less climbing hold in competitions
oh wow this was how I did my climbing routines. I would climb sport/lead then boulder the next day and then alternate until my forearms were just blown out and tedons were shot then I rest for like a couple days just doing pull ups and yoga
haha pull ups is resting...
then I get back to the same thing hahaha. But obviously I ate a ton of food all the time and drank protein all the time hahaha yeah... my lats and back never get sore from climbing its always my forearms
Once I did 4x4's on the boulder and the next day my legs were sore, so that's when I realized I should probably start doing something to strengthen them My forearms used to get sore, but not so much anymore... maybe I just need to try harder lol
do deadlift for legs haha try harder? maybe. or try more over hanging stuff
I wanted to start doing crossfit, but I did like one "workout of the day" and I just didn't really like it because I'd rather work on my strengths
hmm interesting. I never have done crossfit either but my good friend really wants me to try it and im like I dont need to pay 200 bucks a month for someone to tell me how i need to work out. to be honest I am self motivated and my body looks good anyway
I'd never pay to go to a crossfit gym because they're super expensive, but my dad used to do it so he bought a bunch of weights and stuff
I honestly respect those people who do crossfit and it looks really fun
it makes your wrists and collarbones hurt though
ooh i have a bad wrist from breaking it. Im not about that
did you break it climbing?
no haha but I broke it from long boarding. want to here the story?'
yes
so before the mission I thought i was invinsible. there was this fresh asphalt road behind my friends how because they were building houses there and there was this really big nice hill. So my friends and I decided to bomb it. Well I actually decided to bomb it fast and my friends went really slow. When i got a ton of speed and got to the bottom I hit a big rock and stopped my board and flipped me off. I hit my head and I planted my hand on the ground to break my fall my entire body weight rotated around my wrist. When I got up from it I saw my hand was rotated about 90 degrees inwardlly and I shattered my radius bone My friends rushed down and I was like "COLLLIN TWIST MY WRIST BACK IN PLACE" because I did not want to go to the hospital because i didnt have insurance. My buddy grabbed my hand to twist but threw up from my mangled hand
wow....that was dumb.  But I guess you couldn't have known there would be a rock I've never broken anything
yeah true but it was in the dark at like 10 pm so i couldn't see anything either. Yes I was really dumb Ill admit thats good that you never broken anything. keep it that was hahaha it takes about 3 months to heal a bone at least
I have a friend who I climb with who broke his wrist snowboarding so he missed some climbing competitions. But then when it was doing better he competed with his cast on even though his doctor probably wouldn't have wanted him to. But he still did a good job
yeah that is awesome! When I broke my ankle from decking I was out all of winter semester but I still went climbing anyway indoor because I could not just climb hahaha I never have done any competitiions though. I probably should
I find that I climb better in competitions because I feel like I have to get to the top or else the world will end
the pressure and stress makes you climb harder huh? OH when I first started dating my girlfriend I took her climbing and I sended some harder routes that I was working on because I wanted to impress her hahaha that worked
pressure helps haha
hahaha yeah. Thanks to my girlfriend I got to send some of my indoor projects do you like to do multi pitch climbs?
I never have, have you?
yeah I love doing multi pitches. its actually the climbs style that I love doing for fun. I never try going hard on them its really fun to get really really high up
I bet looking down is fun
hahaha yeah it is its really cool too because you know that not many have been on top of whatever you just climbed on my favorite multipitch climb is called the cork screw in Moab
wow i just googled it and it looks really cool
yeah super fun the most fun climb I've ever done
I'll try it sometime
yeah who knows? maybe we will meet when you get here and we can go! BYU doesnt have a stand alone rock climbing club its just called the outdoor adventure club
that's what I heard
wel megan I think you and I have been chatted out I feel like. We can only chat so much about Rock climbing hahaha