Dealing with fear of TRAD

[layton]

any thoughts on overcoming the fear of trad, like climbing a longer sport route or something. please help. need to uncage the soul for immediate release.

[Weekend_Climberz]

It's safer to just stay home.

[olyclimber]

The instructions are quite simple:

 

1. get girlfriend

2. breakup

3. uncage soul

[G-spotter]

for immediate release, repeat daily.

[jordop]

The instructions are quite simple:

 

1. get girlfriend

2. breakup

3. uncage soul

 

For best results, you should dump the girl because you feel sorry for her for going out with a scumbag like you

[Weekend_Climberz]

My girlfriend just got her own apt after living together for five years. All I have left is step three. Sweet.

[mountainmatt]

I think you will better uncage your soul if she breaks your heart.

[minx]

My girlfriend just got her own apt after living together for five years. All I have left is step three. Sweet.

 

there's a thread in the cafe about choosing wine for your climb. getting good and drunk should help you uncage

[John Frieh]

The instructions are quite simple:

 

1. get girlfriend

2. breakup

3. uncage soul

 

Fundamentally this is correct however if you breakup with her or part on mutual terms the ability to uncage is greatly inhibited.

 

To truly uncage she has to fucking burn you.

 

Also to reap maximum benefits of the uncaging avoid interaction with other females... meeting a new girl will kill your uncage buzz quickly.

 

[foraker]

[olyclimber]

i wrote a book on that subject. it is way better than that schlock!!!

[dan_forester]

everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

[olyclimber]

DIGESTING MR BISCOTTI

 

Peace comes hard to the abandoned hotel.

 

By the lake that harbours telepathic trout

Hither and thither dart the thoughts of God

Signora Biscotti scrapes the offal of her husband Dino

Into the limpid waters flat

It's swallowed

First by the surface

And then by the fish. The peel of his guts

The rind, is funnelled through their yo-yo mouths into their fishy tubes.

They flick away.

 

Next evening, two are hooked and cooked.

With lemon, pepper and saute´ potatoes

Signora Biscotti and a friend, still jittery, devour the fishes flanks

Leaving the heads to stare through floured eyes,

And the spines to pump dead messages past the peas,

Hard to see in the candlelight.

 

"Dino loved peas"

 

Their interlocking fingers, lit by guttering light,

like parchment spiders, rest and pulse before commencing the duel of love,

Beside the lake of stars, of unmovingness;

As Signor Biscotti - Dino - passes through them,

Peace comes slow to the abandoned hotel.

[knotzen]

For best results, you should dump the girl because she's a hopeless idjit for going out with a scumbag like you

[olyclimber]

i would never belong to a club that would have me as a member

[layton]

The instructions are quite simple:

 

1. get girlfriend

2. breakup

3. uncage soul

 

For best results, you should dump the girl because you feel sorry for her for going out with a scumbag like you

 

yup, guilty.

not the current one though, so you a-holes hold on to your bettin' money cuz it's still game-on.

[layton]

i'm going to try some trad this week. let's see how it goes.

[Off_White]

Ummm, who's fear of trad are we talking about? No offense, but you seem to be an unlikely candidate, is this the light of your life we're discussing?

[foraker]

Maybe he means fear of a 'traditional relationship' or a 'traditional marriage'?

[Dechristo]

Don't trad on me.

[archenemy]

this sounds corny, but here it is:

 

for all the talk of climbers dying, I don't really think that is what we are afraid of. I don't think overcoming the fear of death is that big of a step; however, overcoming fear of future suffering is a much stickier wicket.

 

the times I've been scared climbing (I mean sewing-machine leg, lizard-brain blubbering, breath-less outta control afraid) have been leading slabbyish, traversish trad and thin, last-3-placements-sucked aid. I've been lucky in that I have a supportive partner who always says I can back off if I need to. That helps. of course, it also helps knowing that oftentimes my only option is to keep going. That is when I realize the phrase "suck it up" actually has some merit; I've usually either stopped breathing or am on the verge of hyperventilating. I pause and make myself breath right, and make myself think only of my breathing. I think it is easier to tell the body first that there is no reason to be scared, then tell the mind.

 

Oh, and don't look down.

[billcoe]

 

yup, guilty.

not the current one though, so you a-holes hold on to your bettin' money cuz it's still game-on.

 

I get it now. I saw the earlier post and didn't understand.

 

Somebodys about to try something new and unusual....aren't they?

 

Go get em Mikey, my moneys on you all the way.

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Deep breath, shake, relax, ...go for it. Repeat as necessary.

[RuMR]

I mean sewing-machine leg, lizard-brain blubbering, breath-less

 

sounds like rad sex!!

[archenemy]

I mean sewing-machine leg, lizard-brain blubbering, breath-less

 

sounds like rad sex!!

As soon as I figure out how to get laid while on lead, I will rule the world.

[DirtyHarry]

i'm going to try some tard this week. let's see how it goes.

 

Sicko.