Climbing as a sport

My sport is indoor bouldering. The climb in the right hand photo was a V1, but I had been having trouble reaching beyond the ledge to get the final few holds. In this particular photo, I am smearing to even out my weight distribution in order to make the final shift. In the left hand photo, I had just made a swing to get my left hand to the other wall, and I am moving to get my left leg on that wall too.    
At the comp(etition) on Nov. 9, there were 100 competitors, not counting the spectators who showed up to watch the competitors. We were at an indoor gym in Richmond, called SCOR. The routes were numbered, and the label only read who needed to climb it. I am classified as a U17-F climber, so I could only climb U17-F routes, all of which were V3s and above. I am on the River Rock Climbing team, competing during the first season they have had since COVID-19 hit. There are 10 teammates, including me, five boys and five girls. Our coach, his first name is Heath, teaches science for another school in the area, and my teammates are from many different schools. Coach often tells us to “send hard” meaning give a route our all.
My favorite part of the climb is letting go. I lower myself a few holds down, take a deep breath, raise my eyes to the wall, and then let go, usually curling my arms into my chest. Falling the ‘right’ way is important in climbing, because a bad fall can cause injury, even death in extreme circumstances. Weeks ago, I landed wrong after one of my favorite climbs. It was a green and white route set as a V1, and I had done it many times before. (for reference, VBs are the easiest route, then V0s, V1s, and so on). But that time, I had landed on the mat on my hand, with a locked elbow under my shoulder, not on either of the climbs in the photo, and I can still feel the injury on bad days. But the joy of reaching the top is worth the pain of an injured shoulder. The holds are often rough on your hands, forming calluses and then breaking them off. The climbing chalk you use for your hands is supposed to help with this. Climbing is a sport that takes your whole body. The wall isn’t always vertical, and there are many types of holds. There are crimps, pockets, slopers, jugs, pinches, blocks that aren’t holds but you can use anyway, and sometimes you just have to use the wall itself, known as a smear.