Friday 17 February 2012

12 tips for climbing...


To help improve your own climbing ability you need to learn some basics and practice good climbing technique.
  1. It is important to always Warm Up properly before you start climbing. Your muscles and ligaments don’t function if they are tight and cold and you are at more risk of injuring yourself.
  2. Take time to route read before you climb a route, identify the crux sequence, crux clips and most importantly where you can rest on a route! Work down through confusing sequences from a obvious hold if you cant work up it.
  3. Avoid over gripping, your grip strength is the first to go!
  4. Work on balance as this will help make hard moves easier if you can get in balance first..
  5. Keep your body close to the wall.
  6. Use your legs and feet to take your weight, not your arms. Your legs muscles are much stronger so use them!.
  7. Arms should be used for balance and shifting weight, not holding weight. When doing moves and sequences that require upper body strength, move quickly through the sequence.
  8. Use momentum to peak at the dead point, practice this technique..
  9. Combining both static and dynamic elements of climbing technique will determine your speed of climbing.
  10. Using the right techniques at the right time will give you a huge advantage.
  11. Learn to rest on a route/problem, muscles will perform longer with short rests, working this will help develop endurance.
  12. Have fun!


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