Nov 27 2007
Start ‘Em Young
Although I often profess to be rather poor at sports when I was young, I do believe I demonstrated some climbing potential from the tender age of toddlerhood. As soon as I was capable of climbing, I started climbing out of my cot. It seems I also climbed back into my cot to avoid detection that I was ever out of my daytime cell.
When I moved onto kindergarten, I showed the boys how to use the monkey bars the proper way. Then I moved onto stemming doorways and practicing my skills at negotiating a chimney between narrow doorways.
If I do possess some talent at all for climbing, then I think Gavin’s climbing finesse must come from me. A few weeks back, he learned how to fit his toes into the slots of his cot, although he doesn’t quite possess the physical strength to climb up onto it as yet. Then he mounted another escape plan from his play pen by using his Peekaboo Elmo toy for a foothold. Yesterday morning, he successfully made it up to the second storey all by himself.
Perhaps it is just a child’s instinct for climbing and that every child possesses this innate talent. If this is the case, you could probably train your kid to be the next Chris Sharma by encouraging him to follow his instincts to climb all objects. With the ability to pull up on slopers from a sit start, they’re already heads and shoulders ahead of most newbie adult climbers.
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