What do you do when you're not diving?

[KyMermaidDivr]

sillygrendel once bubbled...


Elvis Leg? =-)

Hehe .... the infamous Elvis leg !

When I started climbing I was terrified of heights! Felt good to overcome that though.

For the most part

I think there are many climbers that start out that are initially afraid of heights. I wasn't, but I've spoken to a lot who have said as much and it was a way to overcome their fear. And this isn't a jab at guys, but it seems to be more guys that have said so than gals. I've got 3 male friends that I've tried to get involved in the sport and it's their fear of heights that veto it. LOL, one says he gets dizzy if he puts on two pair of socks! I'm finding it real interesting though how many people here rock climb and dive. Does that make us high on the scale of risk takers, I wonder? (much to our parent's chagrin!) LOL

 

[KyMermaidDivr]

sillygrendel once bubbled...


It never goes away but...

You do learn to enjoy the searing pain in your forearms!

don't scare Chad, I'm trying to convince him that outside is much better than inside and that yes, the soreness does go away ... eventually. Chad is bouldering more right now and that is tougher on the upper body ... and the arse when you smack it on that pad! BTW, Chad, that brings up a question ... you were commenting on smacking the bean bag floor ... weren't you smacking a mat when you would fall?

 

[Welshman]

It depends on the time of year. During the spring, summer and early autumn a few golf games and riding my motorcycle - I head into Wales and enjoy the relatively quiet Welsh roads with many other bikers. Through the year I clay pigeon shoot when the mood takes me. In the winter months I like watching rugby and occasionally visit my old school Llandovery, which is one of the finest rugby schools in the UK, to watch high quality schoolboy rugby - much more enjoyable than the professional variety. All in all I enjoy the variety of having a number of different interests.

Regards

 

[charmed]

going to gym, maybe I'll go skiing
Have to do something and also

 

[ckharlan66]

Mat? You mean I am suppose to land on the mat?

 

[Tractor Tom]

The winters here in Michigan are my favorite time of the year. I go to the gym every weekday for an hour to start my day, and work for the phone company the rest of the day. Weekends on the farm are spent cutting and splitting and loading and unloading and stacking red oak firewood, at least one trailerload a day until the snow is too deep in the woods to get in there with the tractor and trailer. Then nordic skiing up north or riding the snowmobiles. In the summer it's touring on the Goldwing and working around the farm (those pumpkins aren't gunna weed themselves!)

In three weeks, we leave for the warm water of the carib on a cruise ship, and dive three of the islands down there....

 

[Fishkiller]

WORK is very restrictive in a Catch 22 sort of way

then when I have free time I GeoCache, Which by the way learned from Reading this fine board, I wish I could talk more but oh well, My son Zellet is busy reading and Watching videos he starts his class in January, Still haven't decided on where to get him Certified at, but I know where I want to take him once he is a card carying member of the diving society...

 

[KyMermaidDivr]

ckharlan66 once bubbled...
Mat? You mean I am suppose to land on the mat?

You're such a silly goose, and if you're not landing on a mat you will be!

 

[sillygrendel]

Okay... I'll be good :mean:

Chad -- The pain will go away... And when it does it means your not working hard enough!!!

Climbing is 90% technique anyway!

KyMermaidDivr once bubbled...


I think there are many climbers that start out that are initially afraid of heights. I wasn't, but I've spoken to a lot who have said as much and it was a way to overcome their fear. And this isn't a jab at guys, but it seems to be more guys that have said so than gals. I've got 3 male friends that I've tried to get involved in the sport and it's their fear of heights that veto it. LOL, one says he gets dizzy if he puts on two pair of socks! I'm finding it real interesting though how many people here rock climb and dive. Does that make us high on the scale of risk takers, I wonder? (much to our parent's chagrin!) LOL

LOL... I was a little kid in North Dakota (Hmmm... Pretty flat maybe that where I got it!), we would always go on these family nature hikes at a place called Sullys Hill. Anyway... There was a steep hill there with railroad ties going up it. It was a circular path so you could go either way.

If we went so we came down the hill I would skip as happy as could be! If we went UP the hill... I'd have to crawl up it backwards, quite upset.

Started to come back a bit when I was doing some free climbing 200' off a rock platform (the climb was only 40' but overhanging & started on a ledge -- looked easy!) I reach what feels to be the last move and it is the VERY DELICATE, balancy move...

Ladies and Gentelman, Elvis has left the building!!
(barely)

Taught me a bit of a lesson I think though! I don't free stuff that high anymore. Will go on a bit of a run out if I know the climb pretty well & I've been leading a lot though!

Please tell me you get out to the Red River Gorge!!!!!!!!!

 

[KyMermaidDivr]

sillygrendel once bubbled...


Taught me a bit of a lesson I think though! I don't free stuff that high anymore. Will go on a bit of a run out if I know the climb pretty well & I've been leading a lot though!

Please tell me you get out to the Red River Gorge!!!!!!!!!

LOL ... glad your climbing safer these days! You bet your ass I get to the gorge. Right now, (now remember I'm from the south) it's been too cold and wet. But, since spring, we've been hitting The Gorge every Sunday. I just started this past spring, had done some indoor climbing before that. God, I love it! I just started leading sport. I've top roped trad and love that, also, but don't know if I want to get into the trad thing ... we'll see. Just taking my time and learning all I can about techinique. I just had gall bladder surgery and I remember asking the surgeon before I went out when I could start climbing again, he just shook his head at me ... that 's he last thing I remember. LOL There are four of us that go to The Gorge consistantly and 3 out of 4 of us dive and the 4th is getting certified this spring or summer and there's a guy we climb trad with that's going thru his diving cert after the first of the year. Now, the goal is to do a trip, once everyone is certified, to Costa Rica for some climbing and diving!