| As time goes on rock climbing is becoming more and | | | | away to this with their strenuous training routines and |
| more popular. Everyday it seems like hundreds if not | | | | constant need for improvement. |
| thousands of new people are giving rock climbing a | | | | I am not saying that you don't need to push yourself. |
| try. Unfortunately a lot of these new rock climbers | | | | That you shouldn't compete or that you shouldn't |
| are becoming misguided about what rock climbing is | | | | even try to be winning. What I am saying is that |
| all about. | | | | climbing is much more than that and that you |
| Today with all the climbing magazines, news, | | | | shouldn't allow yourself to get all caught up into the |
| websites and blogs and all the climbing movies coming | | | | ego of climbing. Their egos have got many rock |
| out we start to get a different perception of | | | | climbers hurt and have made climbing more of a |
| climbing. Climbing has become for many about climbing | | | | chore to them than anything. Pretty sure that you do |
| the hardest line possible, doing the single most | | | | not want rock climbing to be a chore for you, do |
| difficult move they can do on a boulder problem or | | | | you? |
| even trying to win the next big competition.limbing | | | | It is the goal of this article to help you remember |
| has begun to slip away from why we all originally | | | | why you started climbing and hopefully will bring you |
| started climbing. Simply because we loved it and we | | | | back to your climbing roots. |
| have a lot of fun doing it. Many can admit to falling | | | | |