In reply to mattdebenham:
> (In reply to UKC News)
> I had to turn this off! I'm all for getting kids into climbing and I cant wait to take my son when he's old enough, but this is something else. Pushing a 10 year old girl to do things that her body isn't developed enough for is damn irresponsible and a bit sickening to watch. She is a child and strangely enough she should be out there being a child, and having a childhood, not being groomed into what her parents want her to be. They guy in the video is clearly pushing her way too hard. UKC and other websites should not be promoting this.
Why is the guy in the video "clearly pushing her way too hard", is doesn't seem that clear to me.
She looks to me like she is having a great childhood, why is this not having a childhood?
Thinking around cranking hard early seems to be a movable feast, the BMC medical advice used to be no international bouldering competitions under 16, yet today they're posting about the formation of a GB Junior Climbing Team to take part in international bouldering competitions.
That change is in a couple of years, I think, maybe based on evidence from the US, where, I've been told, bouldering is much bigger as a kids sport than it is over here.
Any kid who is plugged into a coaching system that can get them this far is more than likely being looked after well. The kids who might be in more danger would be ones not good enough to get into a coached scheme but still over training and trying their best.