Comments on: Rock climbing technique http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/ gubernatrix Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:02:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: n00b to climbing http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/comment-page-1/#comment-10716 n00b to climbing Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:17:45 +0000 http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/#comment-10716 Thanks :) Just want I needed! I'm short so I can't reach some of the holds :( Sometimes, I swing in my current position and use that momentum to jump/reach for that hold. It's quite fun :) What's so bad about crimping that would affect you 10-20years down the track? Thanks :) Just want I needed!

I’m short so I can’t reach some of the holds :( Sometimes, I swing in my current position and use that momentum to jump/reach for that hold. It’s quite fun :)

What’s so bad about crimping that would affect you 10-20years down the track?

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]]> By: Rolfe http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/comment-page-1/#comment-7405 Rolfe Thu, 14 May 2009 08:28:39 +0000 http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/#comment-7405 Two additional aspects to climbing. 1: Positive attitude/mental strength is king, and can be built. 2: Take care of your joints, tendons and ligaments! Dont overstretch and pull hard. Be careful with crimps. These thing will come back and haunt you 10-20 years later if you dont think about it. Climbing shoes will ruin your toes if you wear them super-tight. Take care of your body and keep the fun in it, otherwise you might end up living just five hundred meters from a three pitch crag with loads of routes which you never visit becouse you burnt out :-) Two additional aspects to climbing.

1: Positive attitude/mental strength is king, and can be built.
2: Take care of your joints, tendons and ligaments! Dont overstretch and pull hard. Be careful with crimps. These thing will come back and haunt you 10-20 years later if you dont think about it. Climbing shoes will ruin your toes if you wear them super-tight.

Take care of your body and keep the fun in it, otherwise you might end up living just five hundred meters from a three pitch crag with loads of routes which you never visit becouse you burnt out :-)

]]> By: Fred http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/comment-page-1/#comment-7403 Fred Thu, 14 May 2009 04:47:15 +0000 http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/#comment-7403 Great post, Gubes! Never climbed outdoors,only a few times indoors on rock walls, but it was a ton of fun and really tough on the legs. Thanks for all the technique descriptions! Much appreciated!!! -Fred Great post, Gubes!
Never climbed outdoors,only a few times indoors on rock walls, but it was a ton of fun and really tough on the legs.
Thanks for all the technique descriptions! Much appreciated!!!
-Fred

]]> By: gubernatrix http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/comment-page-1/#comment-7393 gubernatrix Wed, 13 May 2009 16:26:00 +0000 http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/#comment-7393 Completely agree about the ease and delight of bouldering. Going for a trad climb is great but there's a sense of mission about it. I am lucky to live near quite a few decent boulder sites so I rarely need to improvise, but a friend of mine has put up a few problems on the toilet block down at the local beach! Completely agree about the ease and delight of bouldering. Going for a trad climb is great but there’s a sense of mission about it.

I am lucky to live near quite a few decent boulder sites so I rarely need to improvise, but a friend of mine has put up a few problems on the toilet block down at the local beach!

]]> By: ultrafknbd http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/comment-page-1/#comment-7371 ultrafknbd Tue, 12 May 2009 23:19:35 +0000 http://gubernatrix.co.uk/2009/05/rock-climbing-technique/#comment-7371 What I love about bouldering is the relative lack of equipment as well as its independence. Palm trees, stone walls near the café, and what-have-you they're all potential "walls" to traverse at whatever height you wish. Good free times. Your rockover looks too easy for you. Myself? I'd have fallen onto the tire shavings - on me back. What I love about bouldering is the relative lack of equipment as well as its independence. Palm trees, stone walls near the café, and what-have-you they’re all potential “walls” to traverse at whatever height you wish. Good free times.

Your rockover looks too easy for you. Myself? I’d have fallen onto the tire shavings – on me back.

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