Slacking off

Damien Cooksey bucks up and back flips at Bridges. Blaow.

Inside daze

The cave

Climbing was much better last night. I'm trying to get some session endurance by repeating a lot of problems I have on l and some I don't. It feels good to run through things. Tomorrow I'll do it again. Five times with a minute rest between burns, five minute rest between sets, five sets. Psyched. I want some little endurance. I feel it will help me say psyched through these periods of rain we are experiencing here in Nor Cal. At first it killed the psyche for Mortar Rock. But Mission Impossible has been on my mind for two weeks. Why not? I never have enough pads to stack for Impossible Wall start. Maybe sharper but it's two climbs I want to do ever since...West Coast Pimp. I have so many projects to complete this year. I feel strong and getting stronger and more fit. Hopefully this training at Bridges will work. Plus setting next week in the cave will get me psyched to project new stuff and try hard. And mental training by pushing through and going till muscular failure. I'm relearning how to stay focused, something I learned in my teens on a team. It's slowly returning to me. I'm a late bloomer what can I say?

Ben Eastman training in the cave

4 and 3 and 2 and 1 (What up!)

Hey there! Thanks for peeping the blog. I'll be writing more about my climbing with some pictures.

Let's get to it...

Yesterday, day 3 on plastic. Weather has been complete turds. Rain when I wanna go outside, no rain when I rest. Can't explain the frustration at the rain. Maybe it's having a rain jacket that doesn't fit right no more cause it's too small for me now. I got it when i was a freshman in high school and I've definitely outgrown it. Nothing I can do right now about that. So climbing...inside...on plastic. It's really wearing my mind down. It's making me itch for real rock. that much more. I don't mind climbing inside at all, and have found things to keep busy on. I think I have social anxiety though. I felt really nervous and uncomfortable last night. Like complete mental shut down. I had to leave the building to go outside and calm down for a while. It only happens when some people come in though. Unexplainable. It's not rad at all. It's almost as if I have to leave altogether to not feel angry or irritated. I'll try that out next time.

But I feel really motivated on trying stuff my mind deemed way hard for myself last couple of months. I need to push myself once again. No one else will push me and I need to step up and go for it. Such a big mental mind fuck 2009 was. It's taken a lot to start to come around. Go figure. I'm excited to keep trying even I don't complete the things. It's all just making me stronger...right?

All I'm waiting for now is the rain to stop and Mortar Rock to dry out, route setting to start back up, and to work on my anxiety problem in social situations.