How to climb 9a
JOE WARDβS CLIMBING COACHING BLOG
This made me wonder, who was the first to stuff it into their pockets when tying in and taking it up the ropes with them?
Can you imagine how difficult it would be to chalk up if we had to stick our hands into our pockets π Thatβs why chalk bags evolved.
To change you must raise the bar! Step outside of what you have known before and push your limits outwards.
The pursuit of in-sight is a common theme amongst top performing climbers. They seem to search out this space and learn from it. We can learn from them and search it out too.
If you have never trained for climbing before or you have been climbing for less the two years this is the way to go! This short blog shows you the basics of how to balance your climbing time with your workout time to help you become the best climber you can be.
It is time for us all to reframe. So focus on removing the injury niggles, learn a new warm up routine, improve your core, make a distilled list of the routes you really want to climb. We have time, I hope we can see the opportunity and take action to grab it as it passes.
Iβve been getting questions about sore hands. Have you been getting that sore hand feeling too?
This is the way climbing sessions often end, especially at an indoor wall. So how do you get the most out of your hands at the climbing wall? Here are 3 things I have learned about getting the most from the skin on your hands.
The next time I go to the climbing wall I am going to try sequences of moves I donβt think I can do. I will report back. You could tooβ¦let me know how you get onβ¦could be a tough challenge.
Experienced, high performing climbers have learned the art of failing fast, and this is one of the keys to their success. There is something in this we can all learn from. They have the ability to attempt a sequence of moves when failure is a very real potential outcome.
Asking these 4 questions changed my rock climbing forever! Without asking these questions my climbing would not have developed with any focus to where it is today. I am going to share these questions with you here. I hope they with help to focus you and your rock climbingβ¦