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Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Post by Tronno »

crazygringo wrote: post #58
kettunen wrote: post #18

One of the most fun part of climbing is the problem-solving aspect of it. Figuring your way to get up the wall/boulder. Why would you want to get rid of that?

What about when you try to solve the problem and you get stuck and can't? Or solve it but in a bad way that requires way too much exertion? The point is to try to solve it yourself, then compare with an expert solution, and therefore learn how to improve. If you're just blindly trying to problem-solve through trial and error without ever comparing against expert feedback, you're going to learn climbling extremely slo…

Getting stuck is part of the game. It could take several sessions or it could take several years. It's what makes a climb truly hard, a "project".

It's an essential part of the sport - the satisfaction of using one's own body and mind to overcome the seemingly impossible.

If you never get stuck, how could you possibly experience it?

Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Post by rockfishroll »

petsfed wrote: post #73
rockfishroll wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotting a refugee from rockclimbing.com on hacker news was not on my bingo card for the day. But I guess if I'm here (writing novels about route setting) then I shouldn't be surprised other people are too.

Outside of a short-lived usurper on instagram selling pet food dishes, I am still the only petsfed on the internet, since 1997. What's really wild to me is how somebody would recognize a mid-tier poster from a website I thought effectively defunct for nearly 10 years now.

It just goes to show how impactful online communities are capable of being. rockclimbing.com was in it's heyday right as I was discovering climbing. I was a bored kid constructing my entire identity around climbing and there was no other place to do that outside of the gym. No mountain project. No youtube. No social media. I spent a lot of hours lurking those forums. There are only a handful of users I could still name, but I bet I would recognize a lot of them.

Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Post by IanCal »

crazygringo wrote: post #80
et-al wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With bouldering, the set of moves is fairly limited and what actually prevents someone from pulling harder comes down to flexibility, core strength, and contact strength.

OK, but the submission and conversation here isn't about bouldering. This is about wall climbing where there's lots of choice for moves.

I'm not sure what definition you're using here but the example video on the main page is bouldering.

Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Post by et-al »

crazygringo wrote: post #80
et-al wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With bouldering, the set of moves is fairly limited and what actually prevents someone from pulling harder comes down to flexibility, core strength, and contact strength.

OK, but the submission and conversation here isn't about bouldering. This is about wall climbing where there's lots of choice for moves.

Well if we're talking about "wall climbing", the set of moves don't expand that much as one progresses. Your technique needs to be more efficient and your transitions and balance on point, but it's not like there's a esoteric 13a move that a 10d climber hasn't seen. Sure the first time someone dyno'd on a roped climb was a sea change.

Bouldering arguably has a larger set of moves than "wall climbing", but again the physicality of this sport is the crux for most people. One can study and maybe drill all the "advanced" moves, but without the flexibility and strength to execute on microholds, that knowledge is useless.

Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Post by nsagent »

Great job! A lot of folks from my CS PhD program are really into climbing (including me), but none of us has conducted research that explored climbing. Rather climbing is our respite from research.

Anyway, I think this could work really well as an app. Good luck.

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