Climbing Gym Is Happening

Brooklyn Boulders, a new climbing gym in the old Daily News garage on 3rd Ave and DeGraw, is opening to the public in a couple of weeks. The gym apparently has 30 foot ceilings and 18,000 square feet of cool ass climbing options.

Now, I'm not into shit like this AT all, but Thrillist's description of the joint even has my ass intrigued:

"Boasting "probably more climbing wall area than all other walls in the five boroughs combined", BB offers five separate staging areas for everybody from hardcore monkeys ("negative slope" out-facing courses, upside down arches, etc) to weekend dabblers, in the form of several straight vertical ascents scalable by the scrawniest of men, even when not chased by Laser."

I'm not even sure WTF that means, but it sounds kind of rad.

You can blow $20/day there to climb your heart out with your own equipment, or $30/day if you use theirs. But I'm guessing most of you rich, spoiled Park Slope climbing bitches will be opting for the $5,000 lifetime membership. Duh.

Trainers Who Suck [or ROCK] at Crunch On Flatbush?

From Brooklynian: 

Don't care about whether its a guy or a gal, just want someone who's attentive, skilled, responsible -- and not selling all the time.

Gawd knows my fat ass has no advice, so anyone else out there have some scoop for rednexala?

IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE RUNNING INTO 10,000 PEOPLE SATURDAY MORN...

...You probs should stay pretty far away from Prospect Park.

The Brooklyn Half Marathon is goin down at 8am. So if you fancy yourself a quiet walk with your dog or are lookin' to get your jog on, you might want to reroute that shit.

(via OTBKB)

[Captive] in Park Slope; Bikram is Sandskrit for Torture.

A New York Native is Held Captive By The Passive-Aggressive Energies of a Nouveau Yoga Community

This is an ongoing series in which we attempt to bring you lots 'o different perspectives on what its like to *actually* live in Park Slope...from readers just like you (or not--that's the whole point).

So everyone is going to the Bikram place on Flatbush these days. People you would NEVER think were into yoga go there - Not just relaxed, looking-for-spiritual-growth -and-enlightenment hippie-types, but yuppies who are in a hurry and want "results" yesterday.

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