I used to climb regularly in my 20’s and this would have been so helpful, my son climbs so I am going with him soon and I will try all of these and see if I can surprise him with my improvement! Thank you
❤Thank you for creating such concise, informative, and insightful educational videos! Your content is incredibly helpful, and I truly appreciate the effort you put into making learning enjoyable. Wishing you all the best and continued success!❤
So many great points are shown! Could recognize myself in many of those. Will definitely try out get it done with a better technique. Thanks a lot and have a great day! 🙌
This is such good video! It's come at a great time for me - I'm less than 18 months into climbing, but I'm really starting to dive into the nuances of technique at the moment (I've had to favour footwork from the outset because I'm a mid-40-something postmenopausal person and I didn't have much preexisting strength 😅). I'm currently on a week's vacation and had a long bouldering session today - got the urge to spend the best part of 2.5 hours just traversing around various parts of my gym - not something I'm able to do very often, but *so* useful for practising weight transfer between feet, standing on terrible foot holds, deliberately avoiding 'good' handholds to force myself to trust my feet and use a variety of grips, and really leading with my hips. Despite doing (for me) A LOT of moves, I still had loads left in the tank to spend some time on some projects afterwards. I think it really helped get me in the mindset of using my entire body and relying less on my arms. Biggest things I've noticed recently are improvements in my rockovers and flags. Moving dynamically is still something i struggle with but I'm working on it. This video will be a really useful one to have up as a reminder especially when I'm doing drills or traversing (as well as filming myself, something I'm not really in the habit of doing much of yet!).
The biggest move improvement for me. When you showed me the inside flag, which works well for a medium body position, versus a back flag that usually requires you to go pretty low.
I just started bouldering, and this has so many great tips on body position and use of weight, as well as things I know I’ll have to come back to in the future. Thanks so much and hope the feet have recovered 😂
One tidbit I learned was with slopers (ew). I understand just hanging directly beneath it with as much hand surface as possible, but I was running into the problem of: once my body weight starting shifting from *beneath to *next to the sloper, most of my hold tension would melt away. My climbing coach told me I could move and shift my hand along with my body to maintain tension. Hard to explain, kinda had to be experienced, but I tried it and it worked sooo much better than muscling through a weakling hold.
And btw you’re currently one of my favorite climbing channels-clear, concise, to the point, and *practical* lessons that I can use. Good editing too with title cards. Thank you and keep it up!
Rather than thinking of it as hanging directly beneath a sloper, I find it more useful to think about bringing your hips under the hold/as close to the wall as possible
i find it harder to engage your hips on a steeper wall especially when the foothole is tiny, like you cant twist ur foot or what not, what should I do?
Engaging your hips on steep walls can be tricky, you are not alone in feeling this way! Try focusing on your body positioning and using your core to maintain balance. Practicing foot placements might also help you find stability on those tiny footholds. Other than that - practicing over and over helps.
i have only just started learning drop knees just started climbing in april and got my first 2 v6+ flashes the weekend just gone mainly rely on strength atm drop knees are super helpful in certain situations
Another great video! Love your relaxed style that says: ' Hey c'mon in! You might really love this.'
Thank you! I’m glad you like it :)
I used to climb regularly in my 20’s and this would have been so helpful, my son climbs so I am going with him soon and I will try all of these and see if I can surprise him with my improvement! Thank you
That’s so cool! Can’t wait to hear how it goes! Your son is gonna be so impressed when you crush it! 🧗♂️💪
❤Thank you for creating such concise, informative, and insightful educational videos! Your content is incredibly helpful, and I truly appreciate the effort you put into making learning enjoyable. Wishing you all the best and continued success!❤
So many great points are shown! Could recognize myself in many of those. Will definitely try out get it done with a better technique. Thanks a lot and have a great day! 🙌
I'm glad to hear you found the points relatable! Best of luck with your climbing-I'm sure you'll do great!
Thank you for the video, a lot of useful information!!
This is such good video! It's come at a great time for me - I'm less than 18 months into climbing, but I'm really starting to dive into the nuances of technique at the moment (I've had to favour footwork from the outset because I'm a mid-40-something postmenopausal person and I didn't have much preexisting strength 😅). I'm currently on a week's vacation and had a long bouldering session today - got the urge to spend the best part of 2.5 hours just traversing around various parts of my gym - not something I'm able to do very often, but *so* useful for practising weight transfer between feet, standing on terrible foot holds, deliberately avoiding 'good' handholds to force myself to trust my feet and use a variety of grips, and really leading with my hips. Despite doing (for me) A LOT of moves, I still had loads left in the tank to spend some time on some projects afterwards. I think it really helped get me in the mindset of using my entire body and relying less on my arms. Biggest things I've noticed recently are improvements in my rockovers and flags. Moving dynamically is still something i struggle with but I'm working on it.
This video will be a really useful one to have up as a reminder especially when I'm doing drills or traversing (as well as filming myself, something I'm not really in the habit of doing much of yet!).
Traversing is sooo fantastic! I’m glad you’ve seen such great improvements from that and focusing on using your full body :) thanks for sharing!
The biggest move improvement for me. When you showed me the inside flag, which works well for a medium body position, versus a back flag that usually requires you to go pretty low.
Really great content!!!!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the content!
I just started bouldering, and this has so many great tips on body position and use of weight, as well as things I know I’ll have to come back to in the future. Thanks so much and hope the feet have recovered 😂
Welcome to climbing - I’m so glad it’s helpful!
One tidbit I learned was with slopers (ew).
I understand just hanging directly beneath it with as much hand surface as possible, but I was running into the problem of: once my body weight starting shifting from *beneath to *next to the sloper, most of my hold tension would melt away.
My climbing coach told me I could move and shift my hand along with my body to maintain tension. Hard to explain, kinda had to be experienced, but I tried it and it worked sooo much better than muscling through a weakling hold.
And btw you’re currently one of my favorite climbing channels-clear, concise, to the point, and *practical* lessons that I can use. Good editing too with title cards. Thank you and keep it up!
Rather than thinking of it as hanging directly beneath a sloper, I find it more useful to think about bringing your hips under the hold/as close to the wall as possible
This is a great tidbit! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you!😊
i find it harder to engage your hips on a steeper wall especially when the foothole is tiny, like you cant twist ur foot or what not, what should I do?
Engaging your hips on steep walls can be tricky, you are not alone in feeling this way! Try focusing on your body positioning and using your core to maintain balance. Practicing foot placements might also help you find stability on those tiny footholds. Other than that - practicing over and over helps.
i have only just started learning drop knees just started climbing in april and got my first 2 v6+ flashes the weekend just gone mainly rely on strength atm drop knees are super helpful in certain situations
That’s awesome, congrats on the flashes! That is pretty amazing for only climbing the last few months!
Really trying to work on a drop knee at the moment. I think its starting to click for me? I hope??😅