“It’s just an illusion. Everything is tenuous.”

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Eat a lot of yogurt? Make a mini self-irrigated planter. Can’t wait to try this. 

Eccentric old age looks awesome. I want to check that out now.

nevver:

Cycles of Life

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"I’ve met a lot of young people who ask me what books to read or what films to watch. I think that’s a good way to start, but there’s no substitute for just going there."

Yvon Chouinard

(Source: 180south.com)

Trailer for an upcoming documentary on the non-profit Community Services Unlimited, the food desert of south central Los Angeles, and food justice.

"The accountability movement has killed my dreams of teaching my students to love learning."

(Source: democraticeducation.org)

"I used to be really psyched on doing the hardest moves I can. But something shifted in me a couple of years ago, where just being part of the landscape on a big, beautiful line, for an instant, was what got me psyched on climbing: big, tall lines. Cause these things are just here, all the time. but then for a moment, you can actually be part of the landscape on this feature, not just crimping out of a cave. You’re actually part of the landscape for a second when you’re on these big features."

Kevin Jorgeson

(Source: vimeo.com)

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manilaryce:

madamethursday:

[Image: A picture of a young child with long black hair in pig tails wearing an awesome Megazord(?) costume composed of several mechanical fighting robots combined to make a suit of armor. The text reads: “Sure, I’ll wear a Tiara. What weapons does it have?”]

Not a Megazord. That’s Voltron. This girl is old school.

(Source: genderbenderagenda)

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Grandma’s beanie goes with everything.

BJSM: Physiological responses to rock climbing in young climbers →

Interesting, considering how hard climbers keep getting younger and younger. 

CONCLUSIONS

Based on evidence presented in this review, the following considerations are suggested when designing training programmes for dedicated young climbers:

• Climbers aged <16 years should not undertake intensive finger strength training and cannot not participate in international bouldering competitions.

• A force producing a ligamentous tear in an adult is likely to incur more damage in a growing youngster as the physis on their epiphyseal plates is two to five times weaker than the surrounding connective fibrous tissue.

• The final pubescent growth spurt is associated with an increased risk of injuries and physeal fractures.

• Up to about 12 years old, children have a limited capacity to develop an adaptive metabolic response to specific training, but possess an accelerated ability for motor development.

This suggests the emphasis of training should be on climbing an increased volume and diversity of climbing routes to improve fluency and mechanical efficiency of climbing techniques, as opposed to increasing intensity.

• Wearing excessively restrictive climbing shoes is not recommended in growing feet to help prevent foot injuries and deformities. Regular record-keeping of street wear and climbing shoe size may be a useful strategy up to a minimum age of 15 years.

• Growth velocity charts and measures of body fat should be sensitively and regularly plotted. If possible, menarche age and cycle details should also be collected. Referral for complete evaluation of underlying pathologies should be undertaken whenever height is in the lower fifth percentile or there is a downward trend of growth indices across two major percentile lines. This may also reveal whether a climber’s growth curve is characteristic of an early maturer, as in a swimmer, or that of a late maturer, as in a gymnast.

• Climbers should be educated in the importance of an appropriate diet and timing of this intake on health and performance.

• The incidence of spondylolysis has not been documented and warrants investigation.

• The age at which a climber should specialise in climbing is unknown.

• Knowledgeable and qualified personnel should carefully monitor training. Where training intensity is increased, it should reflect safe and efficacious exercises for a given sex and biological age, independent of the competition calendar.

• More research on young climbers is needed.

Climbing gym birthday cake. So cute!