The issue short climbers and tall climbers face are not the same.
You can improve on them. Short climbers can’t change their height.
Do we really need to go through all the objectively disadvantageous
things that tall climbers cannot change about their body?
Like guys, I am the first one in a short climbers corner to say
this is literally impossible for them.
But come on, it’s 2024.
The Olympics just happened.
The average height of the top three climbers
for men and women were 5 foot 8 and 5 foot four.
If we are still talking about reach as this end all be all
advantage and disadvantage,
like, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
If climbing for tall people was as simple as
just work on your inherent weaknesses,
then we would see far more high level
Olympic professional tall climbers.
But besides like a few outliers,
and there’s like only a few,
we just don’t.
And I’m honestly just so over this conversation at this point
because my whole point in my last video had to do with narrative.
It wasn’t comparing short and tall climbers.
Like that conversation should be over by now.
My whole point is that by now
the climbing community should have the maturity
to be able to see the disadvantages of both short and tall climbers
and not to belittle the issues that tall climbers face.
Imagine if you were a short climber and you were trying to do a dino
that Was objectively really hard for you,
and you constantly had people come up to you in a toxic,
belittling way and say, oh,
maybe you should work on your vertical leap.
That is the kind of spewing garbage that tall climbers face
all the time. We will be super proud of ourselves for sending a project
really excited, and every now and then
we’ll get comments from some unathletic loser
who is objectively bad at climbing
that will belittle our sin
and make us feel like we didn’t achieve anything
because in their eyes, we have an advantage.