Adapting to climbing with one hand

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it

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it sound a little bit

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obsessive I was pretty insecure about

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how I would navigate this world with one

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hand I always needed different adaptive

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pieces and there was nowhere ever really

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there to teach me what to do and I'm

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finally lifting and I feel really

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confident in the gym but but it

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definitely took a long time to get there

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it's very easy to have imposter syndrome

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kind of take yourself down a notch in

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your own head or still competing at the

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highest level it might look a little

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different from what everyone expects but

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that doesn't change the fact that we're

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still professional athletes at the end

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of the

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day whether you're a novice or a world

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champion it's a Relentless sport

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climbing is incredibly mental incredibly

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physical and Incredibly Technical and

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it's all those three things at the same

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time most of the time well I've seen

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like strongest men in the world come

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into a climbing gym and struggle because

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they don't know what they're doing if

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you can't do all three of those things

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you're not going to make it as a highle

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climber and messing up is high

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Consequence the potential of falling off

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of a 60 to 1,000 ft Cliff is pretty

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obvious you