28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

Bouldering is awesome. Seriously awesome. It challenges the body. It challenges the mind. It…well…it’s just rad, and if you think differently – you’re wrong. You’re just wrong, OK?

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So, maybe you’re a bit of an old hand when it comes to bouldering. Or maybe you’ve only been half a dozen times. Maybe you live at a bouldering centre, and the owners of the bouldering centre haven’t found out yet. We don’t know. What we do know is that everyone who considers themselves to be a boulderer were rookies once upon a time. There’s always a first time, after all. Remember yours?

This, right here, is what’s happening inside the head of every single bouldering beginner.

1) How much chalk is too much chalk?

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

2) Can I go yet, or is that person too close?

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

3) I don’t know what to do with my feet

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

4) I don’t know what to do with my hands

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

5) OK. Keep your cool. You got this

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

6) Remember your very brief training

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

7) Alright, I’m bouldering. I’m literally bouldering!

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

8) It might be on the easiest grade, but who cares?

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

9) I AM BOULDERING. I AM A BOULDERER

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

10) Right, so how do I get back down?

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

11) I think I might be stuck

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

12) Yeah, I’m definitely stuck

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

13) No need to panic, I’m sure there’s…

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

14) …OH GOD. THERE IS LITERALLY NO WAY DOWN

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

15) Help

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

16) HELP!

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

17) Why can nobody see that I’m in desperate need of help?

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

18) Might as well face it. I’m up here forever now

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

19) I am going to grow old and die on this bouldering wall

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

20) “Jump,” they say. Hahahaha! There’s no way I’m jumping

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

21) I am quite tired though

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

22) Maybe I should just jump?

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

23) Fuck it. I’m just going to jump. Goodbye cruel world

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

24) AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

25) Oh, well that was remarkably painless

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

26) Bouldering is fun. Let’s do some more bouldering.

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

27) Hang on

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It

28) Who the fuck is that, and how did they get to be so good?

28 Things Every Bouldering Beginner Thinks About The First Time They Try It