An Overall Review

Hi All!

Here is nice video that gives a general overview of basic climbing movement. It is a nice introduction for those of use newer to climbing, and a nice review for those who have been climbing a little longer !

Updated Form Videos

Hi Guys! Sorry for the delay in getting these videos up. Here are the videos on back stepping/drop knees and proper hand placement (shoulder engagement) that we watched during practice a couple weeks ago. Remember, although much of the time we aim to climb straight armed, there should still be some engagement of the upper back to support the shoulders rather than the shoulders being hiked up by our ears. There are also some videos by Ether Smith on the videos tab that looks at this in more detail.

Watch the videos again for a refresher, or if you missed practice take a look; there a few mono-bouldering routes (routes with the same type of movement all the way up) in the gym allow us to practice these skills (the green route we have been practicing on utilizes this technique). The yellow and red boulder routes have us do a drop knee as well, but they also include stepping through on every move to change which hip is facing the wall with our other leg flagged out for support; I will post some videos of these route being climbed soon to use as examples.