Starting out climbing when your older.

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and my second reply to the first comment would be

 

"come here and say that, and get your clip round the ear..

 

and to this post

"I think that training organisations are selling a myth to older people.Unfortunatly is a myth easily beleived by them."

 

nobody "sold" anything to me..and at 36 i do not consider myself to be "old"

[defenderjack]

"Climbing the tree is about 5% of the skills needed imo I think common sense makes up more of a percentage than being a good climber does"

 

i agree with this statement,,, I rock climbed from the age of 12 up until 26,, ALOT.. i then quit.. for reasons that are mine..

 

I've just started climbing trees at the ripe age of 36... I GUARANTEE that if i was climbing trees for a living at 20 then i'd most certainly be dead.. because at that age i was an idiot.... I had no fear would would do anything, jump 95 foot cliffs etc etc..

 

now that i'm older, ok i'm not as fast, but i have common sense, i have life experience, i'm not an idiot and whilst i'm maybe not as fast as you young 20year olds I know i will always climb safe, methodical and professionally

 

now if you want to try and tell me that i wont ever be a good climber because i'm starting in my 30's then you are making an ill informed judgement based on nothing more than the assumption that as you get older you loose courage as well as speed...

 

maybe we should re visit this topic in 5 years and see where you are and where i am....

 

:thumbup1:well said , im 30 this october and i started climbing at 27, i feel fitter than i did 10 years ago and im finding it easyer evertime i climb (which isnt everyday) i love the job too much to bloody worry about getting knackered by the time im forty ! , lifes to short to worry about not being the fastest climber , get out there do it to the best of your ability know your limits and ENJOY !

[Mike Hill]

"Climbing the tree is about 5% of the skills needed imo I think common sense makes up more of a percentage than being a good climber does"

 

i agree with this statement,,, I rock climbed from the age of 12 up until 26,, ALOT.. i then quit.. for reasons that are mine..

 

I've just started climbing trees at the ripe age of 36... I GUARANTEE that if i was climbing trees for a living at 20 then i'd most certainly be dead.. because at that age i was an idiot.... I had no fear would would do anything, jump 95 foot cliffs etc etc..

 

now that i'm older, ok i'm not as fast, but i have common sense, i have life experience, i'm not an idiot and whilst i'm maybe not as fast as you young 20year olds I know i will always climb safe, methodical and professionally

 

now if you want to try and tell me that i wont ever be a good climber because i'm starting in my 30's then you are making an ill informed judgement based on nothing more than the assumption that as you get older you loose courage as well as speed...

 

maybe we should re visit this topic in 5 years and see where you are and where i am....

 

You will be a 41 year old with enough experiance to be competent,just making leading hand wages.

 

I think this may be an example of how a training organisation fills new climbers with false hope.

 

Many firms are "job and knock" your groundies will give you their best everyday if they know everyday they come back with time in hand.

There won't be many days like that when your 41.

Edited April 25, 2010 by Mike Hill
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[rapidlee]

i started late you may say at 29. i was a good rockclimber, distance runner, out door enthusiast.

i would say that i started late but i have vision and determination, i love the job i work safe, methodicaly and quite fast, im better than some people who have been doing it since there teens, i wont say i know everything but im still willing to learn.

it is late to start in your 30 but if you have determination it will be easyer, i always wanted to become a tree surgeon but never had the chance, when the chance came i took it and ran with it. tree work is great.

but i do find that some people who have been doing it for a long time think the sun shines out there ***. im not saying everyone but give everybody a chance.

[defenderjack]

You will be a 41 year old with enough experiance to be competent,just making leading hand wages.

 

I think this may be an example of how a training organisation fills new climbers with false hope.

 

Many firms are "job and knock" your groundies will give you their best everyday if they know everyday they come back with time in hand.

There won't be many days like that when your 41.

 

or maybe he will work for himself and make more than them and enjoy every moment of it ?

[skyhuck]

You have never been a young climber.So mate how would you know?

 

.

 

There won't be many days like that when your 41.

 

You've never been 41 Mike, you may be surprised

[defenderjack]

You've never been 41 Mike, you may be surprised

 

[Mick Stockbridge]

but i do find that some people who have been doing it for a long time think the sun shines out there ***. im not saying everyone but give everybody a chance.

 

Yeah and theres a reason for that and when you've done the job for twenty odd years you'll understand why and that aint being big headed.

 

I've met stacks of blokes with five or so years under their belt that thought they knew the lot and tbh out of all of em I still employ about one percent of em, the rest just aint gonna make it past forty.

[Mike Hill]

You've never been 41 Mike, you may be surprised

 

True.

But you and me both own mogs and cranes.

Imagine having both when you where 30,would have made things alot easier.

 

You got mechanised in time to make life easier.You and me seldom drag or carry.Imagine doing all the numpty work starting at 36.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The younger you start the qiucker your body adapts, tendons get stretched easier, muscles get built quicker and bones can grow too if young enough.

 

I have always wondered what an autopsy would reveal on lads that have climbed since thier early mid teens, and pretty certain those lads would have "unusualy pronounced" affects.

 

I was always up in trees, I have a pic somewhere of me aged about 8 hanging (bat hung) in my grannies big ol brambley, i always went to the top of the chestnut trees to shake it wildly for my mates to collect conkers, and I was climbing trees to spot fish since a child.

 

I started climbing as a tree surgeon at 15, I am now 38 in june, I am still fit as a flea, can still burn round a late mature oak faster than anyone ive met to date on a fine tip reduction, and can still dissmantle a biggun by lunchtime.

 

I want out by 40, that was ALWAYS the plan, but one thing I will say, once you stop at the over 30's, even just six months, you will NEVER be the same climber again.

 

I have always climbed, always wil,l till that job i want is mine, but ive seen loads of guys slow down and even stop climbing when ive been there long term and they never get back to it.

 

My advice is, get on with it as soon as poss, and keep going till youve had enough.