Post by harr on Oct 20, 2010 10:11:55 GMT
Hey, so i see Darragh doing some great work at the wall giving some fantastic hints and tips to new climbers. Darraghs Master Class before 7pm always seems pretty busy, fair play keep it up. To follow on from this i came across this on the interweb and gave it a little editing to make it more relevent. Hope it helps along with Darraghs good work ;D
Understand the basic principals of good rock climbing technique. To improve your own climbing performance learn and practice good climbing technique. These 13 rock-climbing tips will help you accelerate your climbing performance.
1. Always Warm Up before you Stretch and stretch before you start climbing. Tight muscles and ligaments don’t perform as well.
2. Get in the habit of previewing and learning to read the route before you climb it. Developing this skill will help you get in the right position to make moves at the crux (the most difficult section).
3. Use only just enough strength on you grip as necessary to steady your balance, i.e. don’t over grip. Your grip is often the first to go, save forearm strength as much as possible, try to relax as much as possible.
4. A finely developed sense of balance will help you make difficult static and dynamic moves. Learn to understand where your centre of gravity is during every move.
5. By keeping your body close to the wall you keep your centre of balance over your centre of mass and relieve pressure on your grip. On slab surfaces the opposite is true, keeping your centre of gravity over your feet some times means leaning out from the wall.
6. Use your legs to hold your weight, not your arms. Your legs are much stronger and will carry you further. Your legs or your feet can pull, push and press just like your arms and hands.
7. When doing moves and sequences that require a great deal of upper body strength, move quickly through the sequence, thus saving precious arm strength.
8. Develop the technique of dynamic movement. Be aware of the Dead Point when performing dynamic moves. Just like a ball when bounced as it reaches the highest point of the bounce and just before it begins to fall it experiences weightlessness, this is the point at which you try to grip the next hold.
9. Combining both static and dynamic elements of climbing technique will determine your speed of climbing. Climbers who have mastered this seem to move smoothly and effortlessly.
10. The right rock climbing techniques combined with building the right muscles give a climber a huge advantage.
11. Muscles will perform longer with short rests. Develop a skill at finding rest opportunities while climbing to greatly extend your endurance.
12. Push yourself and your ability with difficult routes. This means you will fall. Taking a fall correctly is one of the most important techniques to learn how to do safely, and will give you confidence to push yourself to your limit.
13. Finally, watch and learn from other good climbers. Practice good rock climbing technique every time you climb and your climbing performance will measurably improve.
Understand the basic principals of good rock climbing technique. To improve your own climbing performance learn and practice good climbing technique. These 13 rock-climbing tips will help you accelerate your climbing performance.
1. Always Warm Up before you Stretch and stretch before you start climbing. Tight muscles and ligaments don’t perform as well.
2. Get in the habit of previewing and learning to read the route before you climb it. Developing this skill will help you get in the right position to make moves at the crux (the most difficult section).
3. Use only just enough strength on you grip as necessary to steady your balance, i.e. don’t over grip. Your grip is often the first to go, save forearm strength as much as possible, try to relax as much as possible.
4. A finely developed sense of balance will help you make difficult static and dynamic moves. Learn to understand where your centre of gravity is during every move.
5. By keeping your body close to the wall you keep your centre of balance over your centre of mass and relieve pressure on your grip. On slab surfaces the opposite is true, keeping your centre of gravity over your feet some times means leaning out from the wall.
6. Use your legs to hold your weight, not your arms. Your legs are much stronger and will carry you further. Your legs or your feet can pull, push and press just like your arms and hands.
7. When doing moves and sequences that require a great deal of upper body strength, move quickly through the sequence, thus saving precious arm strength.
8. Develop the technique of dynamic movement. Be aware of the Dead Point when performing dynamic moves. Just like a ball when bounced as it reaches the highest point of the bounce and just before it begins to fall it experiences weightlessness, this is the point at which you try to grip the next hold.
9. Combining both static and dynamic elements of climbing technique will determine your speed of climbing. Climbers who have mastered this seem to move smoothly and effortlessly.
10. The right rock climbing techniques combined with building the right muscles give a climber a huge advantage.
11. Muscles will perform longer with short rests. Develop a skill at finding rest opportunities while climbing to greatly extend your endurance.
12. Push yourself and your ability with difficult routes. This means you will fall. Taking a fall correctly is one of the most important techniques to learn how to do safely, and will give you confidence to push yourself to your limit.
13. Finally, watch and learn from other good climbers. Practice good rock climbing technique every time you climb and your climbing performance will measurably improve.
