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@nick_warner
thanks for all the advice guys, I think I will rope a novice friend in with me to start off with so that I have someone to be shit with! and also for belay-benefits.
I suppose my reservations about bouldering are that, although its great to be able to go solo and you don't need equipment other than shoes, I think to have loads of fun bouldering, you have to get pretty good at it, build up core strength, flexibility etc. Walls, on the other hand, you can be a total novice and go up the easiest route, and its still super fun, because your high up and whatnot.
Definitely looking forward to sessioning both, but for these reasons I am reluctant to join a place (at vast expense!) that is exclusively on or the other.
it's such a shame that brixton isn't a very good wall! However there is a group I've found called BrxitonClimbers (any members on here?) that meet there to climb socially at 7pm every wednesday, and if you're down with them its a fiver, no membership needed. So might do this weekly, and then join mile end with a friend a boulder/climb once a week there too.
Sound like a plan?
Of course in typical forum fashion I decided to try climbing yesterday and today I'm meeting someone to pick up some climbing shoes and someone else to pick up a chalk bag!