Climber type quiz / The Sendsei

What a Sendsei is like

Patient and precise, on the hardest lines at home, midweek. Your season is a steady drip of sends, almost all at the top of your grade, on rock you've studied for years. No wasted goes, no wasted days. You don't need volume; one hard send a week is the plan, and it works. The crag's easier problems are a warm-up, and failure is rare once you commit.

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The four traits behind the Sendsei

Every climber type is four letters, one from each pair. The Sendsei is HMCD: Homebody, Metronome, Ceiling and Weekday.

Homebody Where you climb: Homebody, not Explorer

Most of your climbing happens in one place. You know its problems, its conditions and its landings, and that depth is worth more to you than a longer list of places visited.

Metronome How your days fall: Metronome, not Burst

Your climbing is steady. Shorter sessions, few gaps, and a season that adds up a little at a time instead of resting on a handful of huge days.

Ceiling What you go for: Ceiling, not Pyramid

You aim at the top of your grade. Warm-ups are short, the day is built around one or two hard lines, and the easy circuit barely shows up in your log.

Weekday When you get out: Weekday, not Weekend

You get out midweek, when the crag or the gym is quiet. Empty landings, no queue for the classic, and conditions picked on your terms.

What the Sendsei's kit has to handle

• Homebody: a brush that stays in the bagClimbing the same problems week after week means your own chalk builds up on the holds. Brushing after your session keeps the home circuit worth coming back to.
• Metronome: chalk bought by the bag, not the blockFrequent sessions get through chalk at a steady rate. Keeping a refill at home beats finding the bucket empty at the crag.
• Ceiling: a way to warm up fingers at the cragGoing straight to hard lines asks a lot of cold fingers. A portable block lets you load them properly before the first real attempt.

Types close to the Sendsei

Change one letter and you get a different climber. These four each share three traits with the Sendsei.

• The Veteran (EMCD)Explorer instead of Homebody. Steady midweek days on hard lines, wherever they are.
• The Crimp Reaper (HBCD)Burst instead of Metronome. Comes for the home crag's cruxes while everyone's at work.
• The Local (HMPD)Pyramid instead of Ceiling. Keeps the home crag in order, a few sends every weekday.
• The Specialist (HMCW)Weekend instead of Weekday. Knows the home crag's hard lines better than anyone, every weekend.

The Sendsei's opposite

Flip all four letters and you get The Joyrider (EBPW): out for the fun of it, somewhere new every weekend.

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