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Bouldering is the way to go for strength and technique. Sport climbing is great for endurance and technique. Both are great. For outdoor skills and safety it's probably best to join some kind of club or association.
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Sport climbing is great for endurance and technique.
Special mention to via ferrate for endurance. Even the best rock climbers, many of whom sneer at it as somehow too easy or too safe, tend to find it a shock to the system to climb 100+ vertical meters (or even up to 800m on the longer routes), even if the going is easy.
Stonehedge
Speaking of climbing. How does one recommend I begin? With a climbing class or with a bouldering class? REI run climbing classes which sound fun, but not sure if it makes more sense to learn about using your body etc via bouldering first? There's a shit load of good climbing centers here.