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from www.climbing.lu :
Interesting article at www.8a.nu today! Everything is good except for number 11 as far as clipsticking is concerned. Dig this …
Practical short cuts
Strategical short cuts
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Look down on your feet
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Avoid lactic acid - Lift your arms
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Breathing & Relaxation
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As many metres/moves as possible
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High point
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Coaching & Memo in chalk bag
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Finger positions
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Safety & Fear
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Pulsation holding
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Clipping later
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Hang-dog (Not. climbing.lu: for gays only)
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Recruiting muscles
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Look down on your feet
Some 90 % of all climbers would improve simply by giving more attention to footholds instead of handholds. A climber that is looking down will automatically stay more relaxed, find better positions for the feet and body and also lean less outwards than the one using the neck as a periscope. If you do this while training you will quickly adapt. An easy way of checking the experience of a climber is measuring how much of the time he spends looking downwards. -
Avoid lactic acid - Lift your arms
If you could avoid lactic acid in your arms for a month or so, you would probably advance one grade as your muscles could grow instead of being broken down by acid. Top climbers (8a<) and other competitive athletes sometimes teach their muscles to work with acid as a source of energy, but only for short periods, as acid in the long run will break down their muscles. Warming up is the key to avoid acid. Very often, the arms are flooded and the blood circulation decreases as a result of too hard warming up. One trick of increasing the circulation is to lift and sink your arms when needed. -
Breathing & Relaxation
‹ Breath › is something everybody has screamed or been encourage to do after some desperate moves. With your breathing you can either get more relaxed or, with some hyperventilation, more tensed and stronger. As yoga is based on breathing, so could your climbing. Before you start, concentrate on your breathing. This is something you have to practice. The best way of getting immediate relaxation on jugs after the crux is to focus on your breathing. Count down from 10, shut your eyes and imagine you are placed in syrup. Take some quick breaths and push through the next crux. -
As many meters/moves as possible
During an hour a top climber do up to 100 metres per hour while other climbers fight to get 20 - 40. In order to build a broad base and avoid acid and injuries one should strive towards climbing easier grades. Some 50 % of your training should just be based on easy climbing where you could focus on technical training. -
High point
Most climbers struggle with pushing themselves mentally but instead of falling they say ‹ Take › (Not. climbing.lu: « zou, zouuuu, … »). By doing so you never learn where your limit is and you never practice making moves under pressure. It is very easy to give up when you realise this attempt won’t take you to the top and you might be afraid of falling. However, if you once (or sometimes) go for a high point, meaning that you fight as long as possible including a jump to get chalk as high up as possible, you will get surprised. By climbing on top-rope you will make it easier to push yourself and by doing so you will take the advantage of training climbing under pressure. -
Coaching & Memo in chalk bag
We think most climbers would gain from being coached while redpointing. This person should pep talk but also remind you of certain things like; Breathing, Finger positions etc. You could also put a memo symbol in your chalk bag like a coin or a stone which symbolises Breathing or Looking down. It is very easy to, once you have started to climb, getting into the zone and forgetting all your tactics. -
Finger positions
The key to do the last moves is often to keep that closed crimp position. As you get more tired and land on the last holds with open hand, you have to stop to adjust to the crimp position before you do the next move. This is almost impossible to do as a routine so here you want to hear your friend scream - Criiiimp! -
Safety
Do you trust your partner 100%. If not, you will instinctively feel that something could happen when you?re standing there shaking with you feet well above the last bolt. By doing some short falls you will be a better team and your climbing will be better. Tell him that you want him to say ?? I got you, come on!? -
Pulsation holding
This is very hard to learn quickly but it’s nevertheless one the best ways to improve your endurance by avoiding acid (pump). Your heart tries to pump out fresh blood more than once every second. As you hold a hold for some seconds the circulation is hindered. Try to pulsate your holds often even if only for a fraction of a second to keep the blood flowing. By training this technique you will quickly get a much better endurance compared to simply working your muscles. -
Clipping later
Let’s say you do five hard moves before reaching a jug and the clipping position. If you immediately, with high tension, put in the quick-draw and the rope it is like doing seven hard moves before you rest. Instead, strive towards relaxing (see short cut 3) first and chalk later, with low tension, then make the clip and you have just saved energy. -
Hang-dog
Not. climbing.lu: You can read about number 11 at 8a.nu, we do NOT support « Clipstinking-in-your-ass »! Clipsticking as well as toproping is a crime in our sport! Highly recommended for gays only! Everyone sometimes needs to hang-dog if you work a route but PLEASE do not use those fishing rods! A lot of climbers these days do more clipsticking routes than actually climbing routes! Damn, I need to throw up … excuse me … Advice: Instead of using clipsticks in climbing (which real climbers do not do), stop climbing and start doing nordic walking, or javelin or SIMPLY dressage-riding -
Recruiting muscles fibres
Most of you do have to do some 30 minutes of climbing and some maximum moves until you have recruited all your muscle fibres. Once you start practicing and maybe hang-dog the route it is very easy to loose self-confidence as you don’t feel that strong in the beginning. Don’t start telling everybody that you feel weak or that it is bad conditions. Instead, recruit your muscles. If you are a slow starter you have to be like a robot (with no feelings) in the beginning of each climbing day.
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