Is Outdoor Climbing Actually Harder? | Indoor vs Outdoor
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- When you switch from indoor to outdoor climbing, your approach will likely change. Most people "feel" that outdoor climbing is harder.
Climbers sometimes feel frustrated with their efforts outdoors, scared, and discouraged by the grades. This is normal. Indoor climbing is much different than outdoor climbing. There are a lot of factors to consider when climbing outdoors that you don’t have to worry about when you’re inside. But does this make outdoors harder?
That's what we are talking about in today's episode!
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00:01:00 Reference point of climbing
00:01:30 Katja analogy - learning a language
00:03:50 Why Mercedes finds it easier to climb outdoors
00:07:23 Mindset of indoor vs outdoor
00:09:48 Nuances of your area/gym
00:15:20 Our no.1 tip for outdoors
00:16:33 Skin care/conditioning
00:18:00 Slowing down
00:18:53 Safety 
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I’ve never climbed inside, but I enjoy rock climbing. Climbing inside on plastic seems fun though:) you can control climate and have WiFi😅
😂
Not to mention easy access to cold water and flushing toilets 😉
*Laughs in 5.9 trad in California vs the east coast*
There is no comparison between climbing 1000 feet up a huge wall and hanging out at the gym. The psychology (a very important part of climbing) is entirely different.
A few things to counter your arguments: 1. very old problems were graded when the max grade was much lower and hence the scale was very different (eg, some gunks roof cracks are 5.6), 2. some gyms really seem to give soft grades to attrack customers, esp in the soft grades (I've seem a study that showed the indoor grades up to ~V4-V6 were regularly very soft indoors whereas the harder grades are more realistic). That said, I feel like the outdoors are often better for short people because of all the extra foot holds and intermediates whereas setting for all heights indoors is really hard.
These are really great points Lara, thanks for adding them! And I too agree that many commercial gyms will grade climbs below V6 softer than what you find outdoors. Which can lead to safety issues for newer climbers going outdoors. Thanks for listening to the episode and for your support!
All good points, but if in some gyms grades are softer, in others grades are harder.
@@biomorphic Absolutely! I visited Chicago not long ago and was flashing grades above what I can do at my home Vancouver gym. Then there's the famously brutal B-pump.
@@larathompson1981 I will try B-pump this year, because I'll be traveling to Japan.
The main difference is the risk level. Indoor climbing is climbing in a controlled enviroment. Outdoor is a natural enviroment. Rain, does it matter indoors? The deck is flat and often padded indoors. The deck outdoors is what ever? The outdoors route setter has a good imagination.
Outdoor climbing is waaaaaay harder, and I do love it, but its also harder to do because of distance, hiking, preparation, setting ropes or equipment, etc.... 😢 so i dont do it as much as i want to
It's not that climbing outdoors is harder,
It's that most people find it harder to perform out there
outdoor climbing is the real climbing
For us who can get outside, it’s wonderful. Not everyone has that option. Indoor climbing has really established itself as its own discipline in the past 10 years.
I love enjoying outdoor climbing, but it's pretty inaccessible to a lot of people without the same physical abilities I enjoy. It denigrates the athleticism and skill of people who don't share your capabilities to call outdoor climbing "real" climbing and indoor climbing not real.
I am old af, but growing up i got into climbing because I was already outside in the woods near a rock so I started climbing them out of boredom. I didn’t know I’d like it so much :-)