With this being my last blog post I wanted to finish off my thinking of climbing as a resource for developing pedagogy with discussing how expansive I am beginning to percieve climbing. Climbing by itself is a sport that is made up of traditional, sport and bouldering. Each of those section rely on the use fo different gear but all incorporate the same moves. Those moves can be performed indoors in a gym, outdoors in urban areas, on mountains or cliffs, outdoor boudlers, or on rock above water. They way the moves are applied is what makes climbing climibing. Since climbing is a movement based sport any movement can be incorporated into it and so practicing stuff like gymnastics and calisthenics becomes valuable and the different sports feed into eachother to encourage growth and progression. This is how I’m beggining to see everything. You can break down individual activites into their finest componenets but you can also uncompartmentalize your knowledge by drawing upon your knowledge of two different things to accomplish one task. That then creates a pathway in your brain establishing a relationship between the two knowledges. This can be repeated over and over as every skill you develop is tranferable in some way. My goal from here forward is to continue to develop my skills but also place myself in different sports, research areas, and environments to continue my growth as a person.

Image generated with Bing AI image generator. Prompt was create a web of knowledge.