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Hi, I'm writing a book about how to improve your climbing technique and I'm looking for any extra ideas. It will not be about how to tie knots or belaying it will purely be about improving technique.... e.g focusing mainly on using your legs, more pushing with the legs than pulling with the arms, being aware of the center of gravity and adjusting the feet to suit... and so on and so forth.

As guidance you might consider these questions:
1. What do you think is the most important thing to think about whilst in the process of climbing... (you can mention the second most important then the thirds should you care to do so.)

2.What exercises would you recommend to improve techniques and the skills of climbing.

of course any other ideas or relevant points are very welcome and appreciated. All useful and relevant points will be added to the book and the author accredited with it. Thanks Jim

In reply to jimnick: 1. Try not to let go.

In reply to jimnick:

Go up. If you can't go up, go left or right and then up. Try not to go down, and if you do make sure it's not really, really quickly.

In reply to jimnick: has this not been written about enough already? What will make your book more interesting and effective? Or is that where you are stuck?

1. The next move
2. Bouldering

In reply to jimnick:

1. What do you think is the most important thing to think about whilst in the process of climbing...

Given my penchant is for steep stuff, "Generally pulling with my arms and not pushing much with my legs".

Good luck with the book.

In reply to jimnick: Between them Tom Cruise in MI2 and the cast of Vertical Limit have it pretty well covered... just write what they do?

You might want to get someone to proof read it based on your OP.

Cheers
LD

In reply to Lurking Dave:

This is appalling advice.


You forgot to mention Sylvester and cliffhanger as a source of info.

In reply to jimnick:

I don't think you can write a meaningful book about improving climbing without also covering strength training as this is where most improvement will come from.

In reply to jimnick:
I don't think you should be writing a book offering advice when you're still looking for advice yourself... I think that's generally referred to as plagiarism isn't it?

In reply to nasher47:
that's generally referred to as plagiarism isn't it?

You're doing this all wrong. First you must create a meaningless, pointless, mistake-riddled online questionaire with at least two questions that cannot be answered in any meaningful way whatsoever. Then wait for the advice to flow n.
This will not help you to write a climbing book but it may give you some useful tips for one on questionaires

In reply to dissonance:

This is absurd.

How can you possibly have forgotten to mention that French guy who climbs the buildings?!

In reply to jimnick: I think you'd be better sticking to the fishing mate.

In reply to JimmyKay:

Oh yeah i know the one er... his names er.. spiderman!

In reply to plyometrics:
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Maybe you could talk about this common misconception ?

In reply to jimnick:

This is going to sound a bit unusual but I find lots of rock climbing moves can be made much easier if you use your buttocks more often.I know it seems rather counter intuitive but i find they can be used very effectively for large pinch holds of flakes or spikes,freeing up your hands in the process.It can turn a tricky crux on a E1 5A into sev 4A if you just use that massive extra tool at our disposal that no one thinks of using.

First you need to do some dynamic workouts though to hone and strengthen your buttock grip before you have the confidence to hang freely using this alone.This involves a super-intense regime of building those seldom used leg adducter muscles as well as your Gluteus maximus.

I use an arse-board which i constructed myself out of miscellaneous things that can fit between the cheeks of my Gluteus maximus,but for a beginner i would recommend everyday things that you may come across whilst jogging in the street or in a park;edge of a bench,fence or railing perhaps or pick a nice hold at arse level at your local climbing wall and practice using that.You may get some funny looks but just tell people your doing specialist arse exercizes and don't strain too hard at first and after a year you'll be shooting up the grades!

That's my wee secret technique out now!
Happy climbing!

In reply to jimnick:
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Sex


Shoplifting.

In reply to jimnick:

Almost forgot! Do you want my address or just bank details for the royalties?

In reply to jimnick:

Steep learning curve huh?

In reply to Gudrun: See. You can write a sensible, helpful post without mentioning the revolution or communism.

You should do it more often

In reply to Gudrun: best advice iv ever read, this is going to revolutionise my climbing.do you think this technique could be used for aretes? obviously you would need to face outwards....

In reply to Oceanrower:

I kneeeew i forgot something!

Visualization techniques;this is where you imagine the hold as representing a capitalist multi-national and your Glutes as revolutionary Communism....

In reply to pebbles:

Hmmm lots of training required for that one i'd say and you need a particularly strong and voluminous rear end.This is a clip of me at my work Pebbles and you will see the "end" results of years of punishing training. youtube.com/watch?v=FrMnLgYDr-0&

In reply to Gudrun: awesome. I shall commence a strict training diet of doughnuts and pizza immediately

In reply to jimnick:

1. The safety of yourself and others.
2. (Related to no. 1) Avoiding unprotected absolute epics.
3. This is great because I'm not working today.
4. (Also related to no. 1) If leading - can my second follow this, and how safe will he/she be?

Answering your post made me realize I'm a cautious person, and that that might be why I'm still alive.

Good luck with the book.

In reply to jimnick:

Poor effort, 1/10

JW

In reply to John Ww:
Let's try and be constructive: what would the OP have to have done to score higher?

In reply to KingStapo:

A few more blatant typos, a pseudo-questionnaire (as previously mentioned), a reference to TPS, and a query about either yoga or vegetarianism (or both). Oh and of course - bolts.

HTH, JW