EP 251: Eric Jerome — The Benefits of Caring Less, Seeking the Minimal Effective Dose, and Developing New Boulders

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Steven Dimmitt

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Eric Jerome is a V15 climber and prolific bouldering developer. We talked about getting hit by a drunk driver, how his injury led to a paradigm shift, why he is actively caring less about climbing, seeking the minimal effective dose, developing new boulders in the Flaming Gorge and The New, buying a house, his career with KAYA, the gamification of climbing, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.
0:05.4	This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:07.8	My guest today is Eric Jerome.
0:10.5	Eric is a badass.
0:12.5	This guy is a really strong boulderer.
0:14.8	He's one of those dark horses who maybe you haven't heard of, but he climbs really hard.
0:19.6	He's climbed as hard as V-15, and he is really
0:22.9	passionate about bouldering development. He's always looking for new stuff. He's put up a lot of
0:27.8	new boulders in the Flaming Gorge in Utah. We talked about that in this episode and in the
0:33.1	New River Gorge as well. And yeah, this was great. I've wanted to talk to Eric for a long time.
0:39.0	He's uniquely inspiring to me as a climber.
0:41.9	We've got really similar body types, and it was cool to hear how he navigates being
0:46.8	on the heavier side for his height compared to a lot of V-15 level climbers.
0:51.9	And he's got a crazy story.
0:53.6	He had a really bad injury that led him to
0:56.4	have a paradigm shift with his approach to climbing. And he is in a new chapter where he's
1:02.6	caring a lot less about climbing and about training as hard as he possibly can and kind of taking
1:09.2	a much more laid back approach focused on
1:12.9	health and recovery more than anything and it seems like that's working really well for him so
1:17.4	really cool to hear about that as well we also talked about his career with kaya and where things
1:23.1	are headed with kaya and the gamification of climbing and a lot more. Yeah, really enjoyed this one.
1:29.2	We also recorded a 20 minute bonus episode for patrons who support the show. And that was really
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