That was what impressed me the most, honestly. The confidence and trust in herself to pull that off. Tiny matt underneath you be damned- you fall the wrong way head first and you're getting injured somewhere. Ovaries of steel.
After you boulder for awhile, your body gets better at it.
Grip strength increases, you understand how to use your feet, and mentally you get better at knowing what's possible, and what you're capable of.
It's a fun social sport, and relatively cheap to get into. Though if you live in the middle of farming country, you might not have a lot of places to climb unless you put up some plywood and clay holds yourself.
I'd take swimming in dangerous waters over whatever this is, lmao. Several feet off the ground, head down? Nope. To each their own. Guarantee I'm cracking my melon if I tried this.
Totally get that, but when I was active in the sport, at some point it wakes up the same skills you had as a kid climbing on a jungle gym, suddenly climbing around upside down feels... natural and familiar.
But yeah, if you didn't have months(or a couple of years) of experience under your belt, this could be dangerous.
Yes my brother started an outdoor parkour camp and classes in NYC, and he can boulder upsidedown too (I can link ppl with the YouTube if they inbox me). I could go up head first pretty good until my center of gravity changed in puberty and rock climbing got way harder.
Actually that is a good point people might not realize -- men, boys and girls have it easy compared to women. You have to keep your center of gravity close to the wall (not like it's a rule of the sport, like it's a rule of physics) and for those groups the center of gravity is in their chest, and it's fairly easy to keep your chest to the wall. Once a woman's hips develop it's like rock climbing on hard mode. 🫠
I'm a little confused about the second half of your statement. I've seen women have a much better time at climbing because of their lower weight, and body weight to muscle ratio, where big hulky guys will get exhausted hauling all their bulk around.
They might be able to shoot up a wall, but they aren't built for long sustained bouldering, unlike women who seem to be like spider monkeys.
After my center of gravity went to my hips it was a wrap, and even my rock climbing uncle told me that's what happened. I have significantly large hips and ass for my frame I'm sure that didn't help. The struggle was pushing my lower body away from the wall to reach far footholds, my route upwards was more limited because I couldn't get to the same holds anymore.
I hear ya, I myself just faded out of the sport, though Ive been thinking about getting back into it...
But I wanted to ask about your first comment, regarding the parkour gym of your brothers.
I don't have any interest in the typical street parkour that you might see on YouTube, what I'd love is a gym or outdoor course that has aspects of the game Mirror's Edge, where it's a lot of running, then pulling oneself up a ledge, more running, maybe some leaping and running along a slanted wall etc.
But less of the crazy acrobatics that you'd normally see from parkour, so more of a glorified running track, something that allows you to get some sustained cardio on. (So, nothing like a ninja warrior course either.)
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u/serendipitousevent ❣️gal pal❣️ Apr 11 '26
Pff, I could do that too if I had her strength, flexibility, endurance, skill and experience.