The right climbing technique - from the climbing gym to the rock
Did you know that around half of all climbers don't start their sport on rock, but on an artificial wall? Did you also know that rock climbing requires a more sophisticated safety technique than indoor climbing and that there are dangers that are hardly present in indoor climbing?
Climbing is not just climbing, which is why Climbers Paradise has decided to produce a climbing technique video series to enable a safe transition from the gym to the rock.
In the videos, four-time world champion Angy Eiter and the technical director of Climbers Paradise, Mike Gabl, explain what is important when climbing on rock.
The following content is covered in the respective video sequences:
- correct warm-up
- Climbing and gripping
- Pulling phase
- Movement sequence: controlled static or fluid dynamic
- Toe or heel hooking
- Introduction to belay devices
- Falling/dynamic belaying
- Objective dangers that are hardly present in the gym
- "Hardware" in the climbing garden (rock quality, wall structure, quality of bolts, etc.)
- Belaying and fall behavior on the rock
- New rope technique "rethreading at the deflection point" (Swiss and French method)
