Quote Originally Posted by edhewitt View Post
It is except that the "rocks" are walls with funny shaped lumps of plastic bolted on. However I think Carl and his mighty forearms of power would out do me at either rock climbing or bouldering, and he is nearly old enough to be my dad (assuming he started early), so I shouldn't mock him too much for essentially spending his spare time at a playcentre.
I don't know if it's different in Au but otherwise "Bouldering" is climbed outdoors, on low height, just for fun, to test out some moves or to play with some climbing problem.
No ropes, some use a soft mat to dampen their fall others a friend "a spotter".