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by Jenny Hebert
Recently, Planet Rock was visited by Jenn Quattrocchi, owner of Vertical Girl Clothing. This friendly and out-going woman left quite an impression, and more than one Vertical Girl sticker is now pasted to various surfaces throughout the Ann Arbor gym. Based out in Seattle, the company is working their way into the Midwest. We had a chance to chat, and Jenn revealed a bit more about the company and herself.
I can’t tell you how many times I hear the following sentence “yeah, I went to another gym. It was cool, but… it just wasn’t that fun.” Climbers in the gym always visit other gyms and never really understand what’s missing. Things always seem a little “off” or “funky” or “weird.” And here’s what’s missing:
SETTING!
The reason Planet Rock is one of the best gyms in the country is not because of our tall walls, it’s because of our great setters and our great teachers.
This week’s blog comes complete with a handy dandy link at the bottom, directing you to check out an episode of NPR’s “Radiolab”. It examines the known limits of human potential, and the different discoveries surrounding the research into how to break those limits and push new boundaries.
It got me thinking. What are we all REALLY capable of? How many times in your life have your shattered a perceived weakness/limitation without even noticing? It seems we all have the potential to switch off the part of our brain that says “Nope. Not today.
It is a frailty of the human condition that we deal in generalizations. We have become so good with labels and blanket definitions because we never truly stop to understand what it is we’re looking at. For us as a people, it is much easier to say, “That looks/sounds/feels a lot like this other thing, therefore, they’re related, therefore, I already understand that.
