Adrenaline pumping through your veins. Sweat beads roll down your forehead. Chalk, sandstone, and blood are apparent on your hands. Tendentious attacks the joints of your fingers and elbows. You walk away physically weaker, but mentally stronger. What you have just tasted is the "rush" experience of my favorite sport, rock climbing.
             Climbing is something that comes naturally to all of us. We have done it since we were kids playing in the back yard. And why do we climb now? Maybe it's because we are just bigger kids, looking for a challenge, a place in the history books, the rush, or the cleansing feeling of just doing it. All of us climb for different reasons you will find your own reason to climb and your own style to get you there. There are many different types of rock climbing; bouldering, soloing, free climbing, sport climbing, indoor climbing, and aid climbing.
             Bouldering is in plain terms is a very, very short climb. The Climber's Handbook magnifies bouldering as "climbing in it's most natural and purest form. It is one of the most enjoyable forms of climbing as it improves fitness and teaches a plethora of techniques on how to move on rock" (14). When bouldering your feet may never get more that a few feet of the ground. There is an art to bouldering because it is a very explosive type of climbing. When bouldering you do what are called "boulder problems". In these problems there are a series of moves and you can do them over and over again until you get it without hurting yourself, as you are just a few feet off the ground. Since you are just a few feet of the ground you can try insane moves that you wouldn't want to try on a climb when you are 50-60 feet off the ground. Solving tough boulder problems is what drives me onward in bouldering. When I don't solve the problem after a few tries I motivate myself to keep working at it until I can climb it. Also, when you boulder you use no ropes or gear to protect you...