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vonSanta

Your 'perfect body'?

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Huh.

Well, this is one of the things I really like about getting older. As you get on, there is less and less competition, cause more and more folks just drop out of the race.

I like my frame. I'd like more definition, but the sacrifices to get it aren't gonna happen.

I'm about 13% body fat. That's about as low as I can take it and still drink beer and wine and have pizza now and again. I'd like to be leaner, but I'm not going to just eat tuna out of cans to get there. And I work out at home, I'm not going to a gym.

Mmmmm. Pasta.

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VonSanta, dude, I have always thought about climbing El Cap...I'm serious. I have been thinking of climbing more lately...

Dom, you are doing just fine now. Wisdom, experience and a great personality beats physical perfection any day.

Anyhoo, Duece, about sacrafices...if you only knew what junk food I ate all day. I think that I have always eaten more than every guy that I have ever dated, and pasta sounds nice right now. :)
Michele, Rebecca, Cora and all the other sky goddesses...I am so glad that I know you all. :)

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There's a serenity and beuty in rock climbing you don't find in the more 'woohoo' world of skydiving. Hard conditioning, uncomfortable. Constant mental pressure and (for me) a constant thought occupying my mind about the consequences of falling. Mental discipline to keep it a bay, to plan, to execute. And to be bruised, scratched yet fully rewarded when you get on top of that cliff.

To feel weary, worn out and old, yet feel on top of the world. Just sit there on your little piece of the world, all calm, while the world keeps on rushing towards something that can never be reached. Sitting there alone or with a friend. Watching the houses where people live, wondering how they can live without this.

Going skydiving tomorrow. Without that I dunno how I could live without climbing. mebbe I should make serious on the threat of moving back to good ol' Sweden.

So, 2010, El Cap, how does that sound? I'll even let you lead most of the way B|

Santa Von GrossenArsch
I only come in one flavour
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I SO used to love climbing.. being really tall and thin helped do things that some of my fellow climbers would just shake thier heads and wonder.. WTF how did she do that. I got older.. life happens and things occur. Nowadays just walking up a trail a few miles is hard. I am working on it.. and getting in shape again. I am comfortable with me.. but I am still way too heavy.. 55 pounds gone is a good start.. and I continue to downsize my canopy. That is one of the reasons I have not put my picture of my jumpsuit in the hot bods thread Rosa.. mine is certainly not hot anymore. But I will get to my ideal.. for me

Amazon

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So, 2010, El Cap, how does that sound? I'll even let you lead most of the way



LOL! we'll talk.

I feel the same way about climbing. I love skydiving, though, and I feel the beauty and serenity in that, as well, or I would never do it.

I never thought about falling when I climbed, unless I bouldered, which I did not enjoy. I could lead climb difficult routes, no problem, but it was so funny how I never felt too comfortable bouldering. The thing about climbing is that I was a natural. Instinctively I always knew what to do. With skydiving, I analyze things to death, but, then, I have to rely on instinct when in the air, too. It is so different, and yet, the same somehow.

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Amazon, you have much more to offer than just your looks, and I know that you know that. Don't ever feel that you are not "Hot" enough to post a pic. That is not the way that I intended the thread to go. I was just asking for pics, so that I could say "Hello" if I ever recognized a fellow female dot.commer's suit or rig.

The funny thing is, that my body (being so different than your was) small and strong with great balance helped me as a climber, too! (Think Lynn Hill!) The only catch is that I have to do many more moves than everyone else to complete routes. It's OK, I always find my own way of climbing up a route. My fingers are small, but my hands are strong as hell. B|

Amazon, I really am looking forward to meeting you in Byron. :)

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Agree with everything you said except the fear/bouldering thing.

I don't feel fear when bouldering. Sure, I'll get scraped up and bruised and maybe break a bone or two, but I won't frigging DIE. When I'm 120 feet or more over the ground my mind goes into 'oh fuck dude!' mode. I'd hate to test my placements so i just try not to fall :)
Am still new to skydiving so maybe that's why it's more 'woohoo' to me than you. You seem to indicate that I can get serenity from skydiving too - that would be so cool B|

Santa Von GrossenArsch
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LOL! I am very new to skydiving, too, but that is how I feel and felt from the first time that I was in the sky. There is a sense of serenity and beauty in a nice exit or in a great skydive. There is a certain rhythm in a nice skydive. It is quite subtle. It's not about random adrenaline rushes for me. I hate that.

My fear of bouldering is so funny. I think that I may have a fear of falling, but it doesn't seem to matter when I am on longer routes. I do not even think about it when I am concentrating. It all happens so quickly...my mind just gets into an altered state and I have this rhythm that takes over my body. It is like I am dancing up the rocks. I have never seen footage of myself or pictures, so I am not sure what happens exactly, but it feels so right when I climb. Anyway, we should climb together some day. :)

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For me the draw to climbing was the addictive "groove" or "zone" I would obtain during a climb. My focus was so intense that no matter what was bothering me, it never entered my mind while I was climbing and well afterwards. For me there is something almost primordial about climbing, it just feels right to me. I find myself getting stuck when I try to analyze a route or my moves before a climb. It's easier for me to just rope up and start leading than to figure out all the moves while I'm on the ground. For me Trad climbing is the best way to get into the "zone". Sport climbing is more of a quick down and dirty me against the rock climb and I don't find myself in the "zone' all that often but I do love it for getting in shape and pushing myself.
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I find myself getting stuck when I try to analyze a route or my moves before a climb. It's easier for me to just rope up and start leading than to figure out all the moves while I'm on the ground.



EXACTYLY...that is how I climb, too! Uh...I enjoy lead climbing on difficult (for me) Sport Routes, but I clean trad climbs quite well, too. I love it all. I find "The Zone" with both. I also want to aid climb at least once. I have never tried it.

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I really like my body, but if I had to change something, i'd tighten up my rear end a bit, and maybe work on my inner thighs a little, well, maybe just get more into yoga, everything would look a little nicer. Other than that, i'm not all that thrilled with having freckles, but, I suppose they are part of who I am, and so I'd feel quite odd to change that. Wish my hair had more body and was red, it's flat, boring, and I highlight it blonde to give it some umph. I would say I want to be taller, but then i'd be more limited in dating since I like a guy to be taller than me.

Angela.



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Uumm Viking???:) Yummy....although you'd look even sexier if you were in the kitchen making a batch of lemon squares!!;)



bwaahaaaaaa, i told you you would make someone a good wife someday, arty! lol.
namaste, motherfucker.

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