Da n ja Moose

Not enough videos of medium sized girlies on V0/V1 since everyone only posts their best sends and I NEVER see my body type represented ... I'm gonna change that. Here's a ?V1? boulder that looked AWESOME in Cody, Wyoming so despite 94 degree (34-35C) heat I had to give it a go. I slipped off the start with sweat right before this but I'll still call it a semi-flash because f rules, I hadn't touched the rest of those holds. This is what over 14 years of climbing looks like, still not perfect, not manufactured footage with the best edit, not the end result of a project, not fine-tuned, not showing you a V7/8 etc, not the best angle. Just climbing. It's ok to just climb, too, and I want every girl out there to know that. You don't have to hide the I'm just climbing days, it's ok to exist in the sport... just climbing.

Show us the fun boulders. Show us the oopsies.

Highway boulders/Cornflakes boulder/Special K V1 (?). If you're ever there, try it!

I push grades and projects a lot and I don't want to just add to the growing online pressure a lot of women (AND non-binary) especially face with this as a sport of "success". I want to see your this was fun routes and boulders. I want to see you taking up your space and having fun in this sport, for you. Not for the algorithm. You don't have to impress anyone, not other women, not men who compete. And it's totally ok to be thicker and climb. I'm almost 150 lbs.

There is space for EVERYONE. Don't hide your footage just because your feed is only women showing their hardest sends, or because of the comments of men on whatever beta website where they tick their sends like a bucket list for ego points. Don't hide it because your project never went. I see you, I know you're there, and I want you to know you belong in this sport, too.

I did my first V1 at Hueco Tanks in 2013. I still don't look perfect. I've done countless training hours, worked hard. I've spent so many grimy hours on hangboards and with weights. I still am not smooth on flashes. I still have to adjust positions. I often look like a "beginner". Men underestimate me CONSTANTLY. Do what you want, whatever challenge level you want that moment.