A young competitive climber

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don't think that it

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really matters with how big you are. If

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you're smaller, you can hold on longer

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and your hands might be smaller, so you

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can fit more fingers on holds.

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I started climbing in Central Park when

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I was 6 years old. Now, I don't think I

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can like live without it.

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When you're close to the top of a climb

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you're trying to do, your forearms

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usually feel like they're going to

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explode and they're going to like burst

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open and you feel like you have to let

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go. But with climbing, you just can't

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let go.

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I think that climbing is it's obviously

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a sport, but it's also like a dance. You

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sort of have to be able to like flow up

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the wall and come up with their own

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technique to get to the top.

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I think people are shocked if I do

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something that they can't do is

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something because I'm still really young

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and I'm a girl. So like doing something

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that even if a guy [music] can't do is

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pretty special.