This dude is nuts

[thurmanmerman]

So ive recently been getting into indoor/outdoor climbing and was researching a couple things an came across this guy. Name is Dan Osman. Pretty much was a climbing bum. He was doing this stuff back in the early to mid 90's and solo climbing(aka climbing without a rope or safety devices) is now getting popular. Too bad he had to die doing one of his free falls.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=994500903799016230&q

[harm]

Video's loading slow for me, but that first jump is insane enough.. I haven't been out climbing for a few years now - but it's great exercise, lots of fun, and you actually accomplish something (hopefully) in the end. Plus it's one of the few physical activities that actually makes my back NOT hurt.. i've been thinking I should just bite and join the Y for the climbing wall again, but I enjoy being lazy and not trying to fit into their BS schedule. meh.

[thurmanmerman]

You don't have to be a member to climb. Its a little more expensive but worth IMO. $10 for 3-5 hour sessions.

[harm]

i'm just going to have to give up being lazy someday then, and get back to the wall. anybody else around here climb?

only thing i don't miss about climbing is steering and shifting on the drive home.

[SPANISH-RICE]

climbing is cool every once and a while at the Y but something about climbing the same 25' piece of wall over and over again is very boring to me

[thurmanmerman]

SPANISH-RICE;210503 wrote:
climbing is cool every once and a while at the Y but something about climbing the same 25' piece of wall over and over again is very boring to me

Have you ever attempted the different routes that they have?

[Krazy_Kling]

that jump would be an insane rush, like mixing meth and PCP, and some shrooms. LOL

[harm]

the good part about walls is the different routes available. don't take the same one every time, stretch until it hurts once in a while, and it's less boring. or try it with your eyes closed, one-handed, whatever. you're tied in, it's not like it's going to kill you to do something stupid.

i do remember the last few times i went to the Y, they had at least talked about changing the layout some.. but i don't remember it ever being different.

i heard rumor one of the fitness clubs in town has a climbing treadmill? I don't know which one, but somewhere up north. ..too lazy to look for it, but it sounds interesting.