By its nature, climbing requires you to go up. This requires safety equipment, climbing partners and so on, which can turn the process into an event. Bouldering, on the other hand, is a quick and clean way to climb and work on your technique.

Bouldering is not about scaling great heights. Instead, it is about pushing your technique in a low risk environment. You can climb straight up the boulder, but are really better off trying different moves across the face.

At its core, every climb is a problem to be solved. How do you get from point A to point B? Unlike large climbing formations, bouldering is great because you can define the problem by going up, down, sideways and so on.

At its outset, climbing boulders was seen as a method for training for bigger climbs. While some stick to this view, many now view bouldering as a sport within itself. An interesting boulder can offer many different routes and be climbed for years.

Bouldering is infinitely safer than climbing a chimney on a cliff face. That being said, it is not without risk. Fall at the wrong angle and you can break a lot of bones. To prevent this, throw down a pad under you climbing area.

The weight your body has to carry in the air is the same at 5 feet or 50. Just because your bouldering, it doesn't mean you aren't going to put strain on your body. Warm up to avoid pulling muscles and stessing your joints.

Buildering is a form of bouldering that happens in the urban environment. Often around adult beverage establishments. Yes, climbers get enticed with the wall of a building front and just start climbing up and up.

Buildering can be a good bit of fun, but is hardly high in the pantheon of safe climbing. The ground is usually brick, concrete or something hard. Falls can hurt. The local authorities also tend to take a dim view of the activity and arrests are common.

Everyone has their favorite form of climbing. For convenience, learning new techniques and setting your own routes, bouldering is pretty hard to beat.

Aazdak Alisimo writes about bouldering for NomadJournals.com - keep track of your climbs with bouldering journals at NomadJournals.com.

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