Ouch, ouch!

[tiggymalvern]

The SO and I went bouldering at an indoor wall on Saturday, with some work friends of his who go regularly. I expected my fingers to ache afterwards - they certainly cramped up enough at the time. Instead, for the last two days, my arms have been seizing up, right from my forearms to all across my shoulder blades. Apparently it's been too many years since I last dangled myself by my hands. I weighed rather less when I was a teenager too. Anyway, it was fun despite the pain, so we've found a closer climbing gym and we're planning to go again. Obviously my arms need more of a workout since I stopped karate!

On Sunday, we went with darthhellokitty to see Mother, the latest film by Korean director Joon-ho Bong of The Host. (If you haven't seen The Host, you really must. It's a fabulous monster movie, bonkers fun and sick and gory and twisted, with probably the best screen monster ever. Seriously, it's awesome.) Mother is a more serious film, still with moments of humour, but far darker overall, and all its monsters are human, so it's a 'better' film, if not so delightfully amusing. Do-joon is of low IQ and has memory problems, and when he is accused of murder, his mother sets out to prove his innocence. A film of many surprising twists, very cleverly done.

A good weekend!

Comments

[jo-lasalle.livejournal.com]

Your poor arms! But glad you had fun, and found something closer where you can practice! Do you have dangling pictures?

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It was definitely fun. The cool thing about bouldering is it's as much problem solving as it is exercise - trying to work out the route, and where to put your limbs, and the angles to use to make the next push easier.

No dangling pictures - maybe in future. I'd have to take a trashy camera that didn't mind the risk of getting broken. It'll be a long time before we're hanging upside down from the ceiling like some people though!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Mother sounds awesome.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It is! Definitely one I'd recommend for your NetFlix queue once it gets a DVD release.

[darker-she-said.livejournal.com]

EEEK, that sounds painful :( I'm sorry you're all sore! Hopefully getting back into the gym will fix that though, right?
And your movie recs are always good, will have to check those out. ♥

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

The current plan is we're going to the new gym tomorrow evening - my arms have just started to feel like they're mine again today XD

I think you would love The Host!