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"Stand Up and You'll Reach It"

Someone shouted those words at me yesterday. I was shaking on a V2, fingertips screaming, core collapsed. Four words that sound like encouragement but feel like mockery. "Stand up and you'll reach it." As if standing were simple. As if my hip flexibility, finger strength, and fear of falling weren't all screaming different stories. As if the person yelling from below—who's never touched this hold—understood the physics of my panic. It's climbing's version of "just be rich" or "just be happy." The advice that ignores everything difficult about the thing you're trying to do. I've started wearing headphones. Not for music—for silence. Because the only voice that matters is the one teaching my body how to actually stand up, one micro-adjustment at a time. #sport #climbing #uselessadvice