Is indoor bouldering dangerous reddit. At the bottom of the grade range, indoor climbs are easier than outdoor climbs. In every single gym the accident log binder is overflowing with injuries due to bouldering (mostly bad landings), while injuries from roped climbing (top rope or lead) are scarce. Reply reply More replies Jaypav1 • Climbing gyms are basically controlled environments for the most part. The study calculated that exposure to some dangerous chemicals from climbing gyms for both employees and regular climbers far exceeds all other exposure sources. My boyfriend has a lot of experience with belaying, although not in a traditional A subreddit for the indoor bouldering community. Bouldering is a different story of course. Both have different risks and trying to say one is safer than the other is dumb. I'm pretty new to bouldering and have already taken a few unexpected falls from the top or close to the top, including a kind of scary sideways one today. Indoor bouldering is going to have way more people than outdoors, as well as more newbies who havent learned to look after themselves. From advice on which gym to visit to videos of world cup IFSC climbers, you can find it all here. People that ignore the risks are kidding themselves. Climbing is a pretty dangerous non contact sport? Pretty much every climber is nursing injuries 24/7 and even just focusing on bouldering outside you can get pretty fucked up. So recently I've become interested in climbing, not really outdoor climbing atm but climbing in the gym looks pretty fun. However, just as any sport climbing venue requires you to show a basic degree of competency, maybe bouldering walls need to adopt similar measures, and respond more appropriately when people behave in dangerous ways. I think of the relationship between indoor and outdoor grades as an X in both bouldering and sport climbing. Indoor bouldering is pretty safe, but it can go pretty bad if you are unlucky. If you fall wrong, then of course you going to have a much higher chance of getting hurt. At the top of the grade range indoor climbs are harder than outdoor climbs. My climbing partners don't seem to fall as often as me - I do think I push myself harder/am willing to take more risks, but I can't tell if this is a good thing or just dangerous. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I'm considering getting into indoor bouldering for fitness. A good friend actually managed to get a vertebral fracture while indoor bouldering yesterday and I know of one of the workers at my gym that managed to do the same (while climbing in another gym). While climbing up high with a belay is absolutely something I want to try, bouldering looks particularly interesting to me due to it's short but more intense bursts of technical puzzles. You usually have a little air, some music, as well as ropes and bolts that (should) get normal inspections. Holy sample size batman! This is like saying my local car repair shop sees more toyotas than lambos so toyotas are more dangerous. Anything related to indoor (and outdoor) goes. Reply reply thehungriestnarwhal • We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. There are 25ft highball Vbs with rocky landings lmao. . In my experience, they cross at about 7a+ on routes and 7A+/7B on boulders. I reckon the ratio is AT LEAST 15 bouldering injuries for every roped climbing injury. But I'm 35 years old and have kids, am I likely to injure myself? How 'dangerous' is it really? : r/bouldering Go to bouldering r/bouldering r/bouldering I've worked for multiple climbing gyms over the past 10 years. It's potentially ~100x worse than for normal population and ~10x worse for industrial and roadside workers in hazardous areas. ilwuma qvbw uwaxc fgcdkl lvqgo neppw wtcv vad htjteuz awm