The title of this post is from my best friend Nari that defines all their desires some time ago, where he was so passionate about climbing, but 400 km away from any rock. It is very probable that if he had been born in the best climbing place in the world he had wanted to dedicate to surf with the sea so, so far...
But now he lives climbing somewhere in
But take it easy Nari, you still on the wrong way.
What I mean is that no matter how much we are devoted to training, getting adaptations in muscles, more endurance, more strength, more power, improving our technique, tactics, strategy, or whatever comes to mind, it is very probable that we cannot transform our organism to such a point that climbing can be natural. Everything unless we win in some way to THE EVOLUTION
It will be very difficult to win the fight against thousands of years of evolution, not in vain we stop to climb to adapt to a walking life getting all the comforts of the modernity.
One of the main differences that separate us from the monkeys is the thumb opposition, which allows to hold things with more precision, but when we’re eock climbing we don't know what to do with that thumb that we uses so much pinching all plastic holds, unless we find a big pinch on the rock.
But the idea here is not to outline problems, just to try to solve them.
Our predecessors lived in trees approximately about nine million years ago, as today lives the chimpanzees. Later a separation took place in the line of the evolution: on one hand the big monkeys, and in the other hand, the men. It probably begins here the development of the hominids, and the man's history, of Homo sapiens, and of their predecessors, Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus and Neandertalis. All of them are extinguished. We are still the only hominids alive. Different monkeys have also survived: chimpanzees, gorillas, etc.
It is important to notice that the biological evolution makes reference to the populations and not to the individuals; also the changes should pass to the following generation. In the practice this means: The Evolution is a process that appears as a result of the heritable changes in an extensive population through many generations.
We can’t deny that with training we produce changes and adaptations in our own organism (THE TRAINING LOAD IN SPORT CLIMBING article in www.marvinclimbing.com). Those adaptations are those that will allow us to improve and progress.
But as individuals we will never end up possessing the characteristics of the monkeys, no matter how much we effort.
We have to think in the evolution!!!
The secret here is to achieve the best adaptations in our organism through practices and training and to PROCREATE to be able to transmit those adaptations to other generations.
For that reason I go for my second son
Prof. Juan Martín Miranda
