Story time! I had a lovely experience at climbing last night. So recently, I’ve been trying to climb using a harder set of holds, not because the previous set were too easy (there are still many I am unable to complete) but because I wanted to challenge myself even more. So, for the last 3/4 climbing session I’ve been climbing “purple” (where I climb, white is the easiest, then green and then purple). I haven’t completed many yet. I just started climbing another purple. It was a weird one, you had to put your foot up REALLY high on the wall to start, but I managed to (somehow) get to the one that was one off the top. Now, it was a massive swing up to the last hold. (Bare in mind this is written in my perspective and anyone that is actually good a climbing would find this easy.) I had one foot on a hold, one hand on another, and I had to pull up about a metre to the last hold. I kept trying and touching it with my finger tips, but not grabbing it. I keep trying and my sister (who was climbing next to me) says “I don’t want to scare you but there are a crowd of people watching”. So I, of course, look around and what seemed like a lot (but was probably no more than ten) people below watching me climb! This is quite normal for the climbing wall because you climb a bit, chat a bit and watch other people climb a bit, but it had never happened to me before. I think they were watching because they were all being really lovely and cheering me on - but I was sort of shaking in embarrassment. I kept trying, and failing, but I knew I had to do it with that many people watching me. So then this coach dude comes over and tells me that I need to put my foot in a different place to help me pull up (bare in mind I am currently about 3 metres in the air with no harness or anything). I am so grateful to him because after taking his advice (and a couple more tries) I got to the top! It was just such a great thing for those people to do because I would have definitely given up if it wasn’t for them. I was still shaken for embarrassment afterwards though! I’m not sure why it happened (because many people struggle with holds but not every time do people gather around) but I’m so happy that it did. I'm glad I finished the climb and I’m glad that people made sure I got to the top even though I’ve never spoken to them and probably never will! (Old photo of me climbing months ago.)
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I'm a teenager and this is my blog. I update it roughly every other day (I'm a lazy teenager, sometimes I'm too busy wasting my life on YouTube or with fan fiction). Archives
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