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Best mental state for a tough send

bones

12/01/2012
11:57:36 AM

Before you best climbs, how are you feeling?
i.e what is the best mental state for before a hard send at your limit?

Edward Oslabofvic

12/01/2012
12:01:08 PM

Wasted

Sonic

12/01/2012
12:07:21 PM

Angry. Seriously I always send when I feel like ripping some dweebs head off.

Sabu

12/01/2012
12:08:16 PM

Depends on what type of climbing it is. For sport is probably mixture of relaxed/confident and slightly apathetic.

For trad though there is more seriousness, some nerves and confidence (if i'm feeling strong that is!). The degree of these feelings are often dependant on a lot of factors that I'm thinking about such as the commitment required, gear, moves, likely rest spots etc.

lost tazmaniac

12/01/2012
12:15:17 PM

me too? (angry state of mind) I don't real understand it.. maybe I belong to the darkside of using the force to get up and send?

bones

12/01/2012
12:20:47 PM

On 12/01/2012 lost tazmaniac wrote:
>me too? (angry state of mind) I don't real understand it.. maybe I belong
>to the darkside of using the force to get up and send?

If I start to get angry at myself for climbing like crap though it's a downward spiral of degenerating technique and energy-sapping tantrums

lost tazmaniac

12/01/2012
12:29:37 PM

I'm not angry at myself.. usually I'm just angry.. (had a bad day) as soon as I get on that route it all gets channelled and I wonder how come I dont climb this smoothly all the time.. no attacks of the Elvis legs or crisis of confidence..

Rocafella

12/01/2012
1:57:31 PM

Imagining I'm in front of a crowd (like a comp) or I'm being filmed, so I have to climb controlled and perfect and not stuff around... Somehow blocks out all the other mental crap

E. Wells

12/01/2012
7:29:33 PM

" I will climb until I fall off "

Miguel75

12/01/2012
8:18:01 PM

On 12/01/2012 bones wrote:
>If I start to get angry at myself for climbing like crap though it's a downward spiral of >degenerating technique and energy-sapping tantrums

Me too, if I start to get a bit sketched I begin to talk myself down and then just freak out into a horrible mess. On the other hand when I recognise I'm freaking out I try to remember to breathe, as this stops me from not breathing...

Steve Peckman

13/01/2012
9:21:04 AM

I find a relaxed mind, some times singing until the crux helps focus me. I rarely climb well angry or when I over think it. My hardest sends are when I’m chilled and I let my body just move.

rodw

13/01/2012
9:29:02 AM

On 12/01/2012 dangermouth wrote:
>" I will climb until I fall off "

As the saying goes " I would have climbed it if I didn't fall."

blueskyblonde

13/01/2012
10:41:12 AM

fear and arrogance boys...fear and arrogance!

widewetandslippery

13/01/2012
6:13:58 PM

The best state is where they don't have you in a straight jacket and your body functions.

E. Wells

13/01/2012
8:38:25 PM

Victoria is a mental state. Fully sick mental

Macciza

13/01/2012
10:42:20 PM

You must be as one with the rock . . .
On the edge - Stoned, immaculate . . .
MM

evanbb

14/01/2012
7:44:03 AM

For trad I used to send best in the 'this is necessary' headspace. 'it's either send or a long abseil and walk'.

retro

14/01/2012
10:17:07 AM

Like all things, don't think there's a black and white option here. Somedays pure fear driven adrenaline works, other days cool and calculating, other days Edwin's wasted, other days, trying not to look like a complete pussy in front of someone you fancy.

I might add, none of that is working at the moment. So the perfect state is not the one I'm in now.

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