Climb Smarter Not Harder!

I’ve been climbing for a while now and I see people doing all sorts of crazy jumps and angling there bodies strangely or just putting their toes on nothing and moving.

What’s going on???

Simple they’re using climbing technique and potentially you have used some as well or been taught by a friendly rock climber who couldn’t help but give you a tip!

Now for those who haven’t met that friendly rock climber and want to learn a bit more about how you can improve your climbing a lot in a much shorter time than just building the strength then climbing technique is the way!

Now Where to Learn?!

Right here!

Now… not like actually right here but as a beginner I’ll give you a few quick tips today and give a couple of suggestions in order for you to further improve your climbing technique!

Alternatively, you can look into various climbing lessons, or classes in your nearby gyms or potentially just ask your friends that may know more or just climbers around you how they did specific climbs! Sometimes they can help sometimes they don’t but you can always ask!

Either way onto the first technique!

Be Straight!

Not… that type of straight but one very important tip for climbing that everyone should learn is extremely simple but takes a bit of practice before getting it right.

When you climb try and have your arms extending fully and not bent whenever you can!

That’s it when hanging on the wall or holding a hold allowing your arms to be fully extended saves energy when you climb as it takes effort to pull yourself close to the wall with your arms bent.

Doing this one trick will allow you to hold onto the wall for longer allowing you to save energy for harder moves!

Keep Close!

Yep, Keep close to the wall as this also saves energy and allows you to get better reach as you stay close to the wall this is more applicable to overhang walls as letting yourself dangle burns a ton of energy but is helpful for all climbs.

The best way to ensure this is to keep your hips close to the wall and rotate your hips and knees in order to not push away from the wall when you try and climb.

Use them Legs!

Once again, more energy-saving tips! This time it’s also simple in theory but hard in practice as what’s stronger your arms or your legs?

Most likely your legs are stronger thus why do all the work with your arms?

When you climb try and push with your legs in order to help you reach for a move and put your feet in positions where most of your weight is in your legs or as much as you can put into your legs is there.

So… Saving Energy?

Well yes, most of these climbing beginner techniques don’t actually help much with getting more difficult moves but allow us to save energy on the wall which makes it easier to save our strength for those harder moves.

This will all take practice to get better at but before you go I’ll give you one technique that may come up in a climb near you!

The Heel or Toe Hook

Now, a Heel or Toe hook what is it and how do you accomplish one?

Well, a heel hook involves putting your heel onto the wall or a hold in order to use it to leverage your body into another position or to balance or support yourself where you normally could not by putting your toes or foot in other positions.

Alternatively, a Toe hook is when you hook your toe onto a hold putting the weight onto the top of your toes in order to balance yourself or support your body in order to move, reach or hold a position.

Now does that explain anything? If not don’t worry!

I’ll be making a new series in the future that goes into a bunch of climbing techniques that’ll involve both images and potentially videos!

See you on the walls!

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