rock climbing training on roofs

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rock climbing training on roofs

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  1. davervr6 Says:

    in most cases neil is right. However sometimes u need to be quick and dynamic to beat getting pumped out. Also when being dynamic you get more adrenaline which helps you push through uber hard moves. Everyone has different body types and different techniques that work for them. Dave Graham is techy and Chris Sharma is dynamic, but both climb around the same grade.

  2. mcblah Says:

    while you’re right about needing power, it’s much more crucial to learn to save your energy and complete most sections without going to dynos and power moves. If you don’t climb smart through most of the route, you won’t have any power at the crux when you need it.

    You’re absolutely right though, no rules.
    Cheers

  3. ncoppen1 Says:

    climbers are too struck on slow boring sensible climbing, what happens when you are looking a huge dynamic movement on a real face with smears for foot holds and you haven’t got the power- look at chris sharma- he climbs on tiny hold with no feet all the time- as you say a time and a place and needs must- THERE ARE NO RULES thats why climbing is so fun!!

  4. rossdabossda2k6 Says:

    @Twoplusfouris7 funner: maybe Less difficult: definitely not!

  5. sydneydoc Says:

    I agree … and no mention of flagging under the roof, or drop knees

  6. thejanitor99 Says:

    Although you’re right, you sound rediculous.

  7. martinmedeski Says:

    climbing makes the female body look amazing

  8. truescrummie9 Says:

    big loophole in his whole teaching philosophy… what if there is no arette? if there was no arette there she wouldn’t have spotted that heel hook and had perfect body tension. her feet would’ve cut unless there was a hold there. plus any idiot would’ve spotted that “crucial heel hook” is that how you spell arette?

  9. judge0610 Says:

    Different strokes for Different folks..

  10. ceebo100 Says:

    And btw your totally wrong about static and dynam. Static spreads the load and you will climb longer if you can get away with using it all the time. Unless your in some kind of race with friends then i dont see why you would want to dyno everything. Yrah you may do 2 routes in the time she done 1 but i bet she ends up doing double you do over a period of time

  11. ceebo100 Says:

    on a 1 time climb do all the pul ups you want.. bet every peny in my bank account that if they ran that rout over and over he would melt long befor her.

  12. Twoplusfouris7 Says:

    I reckon his way was way funner and looked less hard.

  13. davervr6 Says:

    If u do it static your taking more time and using more energy because your using more muscle groups. If you do it dynamic its faster and your using specific muscle groups. Being dynamic is also really committing and get the adrenalin flowing which will help u to pull through the next moves. I think theres a time and place for both approaches.

  14. magnetite123456789 Says:

    I think its the outdoor section of the Westway climbing centre in London

  15. gotdavid14 Says:

    some people are saying theyd do it out doors
    but i ONLY climb out doors and that never
    happens9/10 all u get is a undercling
    or u just have to reach on top of the roof.
    so this video is strickly for indoor
    climbing purposes

  16. bordn21 Says:

    I agree with Tiki1597, but would like to add that the stretch clip is not “wrong”. That may be the only option due to what good holds you have. There is no reason why you cant make that type of clip and then find the toe/heel hooks she did.

  17. topper259 Says:

    i know right i want to go there

  18. imgonnahurtugood Says:

    does anyone know where that climbing wall is? it just looks interesting.

  19. lopside0 Says:

    I’ve climbed problems where my body type made it easier to campus moves than to use the available feet, but this advice will be solid 9 times out of 10. Especially the bit about clipping. If you are regularly campusing moves for reasons other than training, then you’re not climbing as well as you could.

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  21. micky159micky Says:

    neil gresham will never look cool

  22. roddyheat Says:

    yeah the ‘wrong’ way looked way more fun. Don’t you ever enjoy just cutting free sometimes on roofs? I’m all for technique but its fun to mix it up.

  23. flipzeyez Says:

    more of these please!

  24. EdMajinLee199999 Says:

    good advice in this situation, but sometimes i like to have a little fun at the price of the little extra bit of wasted energy, just think of it as a way of strength training, but i would totally agree if it was a real rock… which it isn’t

  25. campusmang Says:

    wtf!

  26. stonereflex Says:

    not to mention you have to get creative because there is nothing saying whats a hold whats not, and you cant always easily spot them.