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Sport Climbing +: the Positive Approach to Improve Your Climbing Ebook FREESPORT CLIMBING +: THE POSITIVE APPROACH TO IMPROVE YOUR CLIMBING EBOOK Adrian Berry,Steve McClure | 192 pages | 01 Dec 2006 | Rockfax Ltd | 9781873341865 | English | Sheffield, United Kingdom Improve your Climbing by Traveling The book takes a practical approach, focusing on the improvements that climbers can make immediately, without embarking on lengthy training programs. The authors put their wealth of climbing experience into an entertaining and easy-to-read manual. It features many action photos to illustrate the various techniques, plus cartoons and informative text spread over pages. There are also many new photos throughout better illustrating the text. Adrian BerrySteve McClure. Neil Gresham — 27 October Lucy Creamer — 27 October The appealing layout helps to make this book an essential tool for people climbing at all grades, wanting to improve their sport climbing skills. Chris Sharma — 1 November Dave MacLeod — 1 November Finally a climbing improvement book has given tactics their true place alongside technique and training, to offer a balanced way forward for any sport climber to draw from. My experience as a climber and coach is that, while there is a lot to climbing, each element is actually refreshingly simple on its own. This is what is reflected back from the book. Applying all the elements he has outlined will help you become a more complete climber. Every climber has at least one part of the jigsaw puzzle missing. This book has all the parts laid out clearly so you can find yours! John Horscroft, Climber Sport Climbing +: The Positive Approach to Improve Your Climbing — 7 March It is both comprehensive and yet comprehensible enough not to tax my limited attention span. Emma Harrington — 29 March As a new climber who has only been leading for 3 months, this book was recommended to me to help me understand more about sport climbing. As sport climbing is a very practical activity I was doubtful whether the theory of this book would help me, but I was surprised at how much useful step by step information it had. It explains in detail how to tie in correctly, how to belay correctly and the differences between onsighting and redpointing. For the more experienced climber this may seem all too simple, but for a beginner or someone looking to progress in sport climbing this book is perfect. The illustrations are fun and make explanations more visual and Sport Climbing +: The Positive Approach to Improve Your Climbing to understand. Diagrams that show the right and wrong way to do something are also very useful as you can then see a clear comparison between the two. Overall the book is easy to follow and full of useful information for the complete beginner and also for climbers looking to improve. The book takes a very positive approach that inspires you to want to climb better. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Search for: Search. Share this product. View Sample Chapter. Emma Harrington — 29 Sport Climbing +: The Positive Approach to Improve Your Climbing As a new climber who has only been leading for 3 months, this book was recommended to me to help me understand more about sport climbing. Add a review Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. You may also like… Quick View Add to Basket. Quick View Add to Basket. Beginners Guide for Climbers. UKC Articles - How To Improve Unless you are competing internationally, there is seldom a moment when you are listening to four different languages cheering you on to the top of a route. In a flash of movement, my arms slapped the water then my head popped up above the surface. I swam over and pulled myself onto the approach ledge where many of the routes in Cala Barques begin. The crag was brimming with characters: ten Italian men, a couple of Italian women, an Austrian woman decked out in Mammut gear who was dominating the wall, Czech climbing guides, Germans, Swiss, and Scandinavians, all crammed into a gorgeous cave, ready to put on a show. Though we did not all speak the same language, fist bumps are universal. The group-psych was palpable. Such a diverse group to climb with is not easy to come by. This is one of the many reasons that I love to travel to new areas to climb. In Episode 73 of the Power Company Climbing PodcastKris interviews the peripatetic Russ Clune on the benefits of travel to your progression as a climber. Russ is both well-traveled and well-decorated. On top of establishing the first 5. He boasts an impressive climbing resume that includes 50 countries and partners like Jerry Moffatt, Wolfgang Gulich, and Lynn Hill, just to name a few. Russ feels that his progression as a climber was shaped by his travels. I feel the same way. Though I have not traveled as extensively as Russ, I relate to his reflections on the impact of travel on his climbing. Here is an exploration of the many virtues of travel for your improvement as a climber — and as a person as well. At the beginning ofI knew Sport Climbing +: The Positive Approach to Improve Your Climbing it could be the year that I climbed my first 5. But simply climbing one 5. I wanted to conquer many flavors of 5. With these five locales I have been exposed to sandstone, limestone and schist. This goal of consolidating the 5. For example, when I had to paste my wet climbing shoes on polished limestone in Mallorca, it reminded me of the slippery feet I had to use on Flesh for Lulu in Rumney, New Hampshire. Though the deep water solo routes of Mallorca are primarily steep and powerful and Flesh For Lulu is vertical and technical, the footwork that I learned in New Hampshire helped me on my project Sport Climbing +: The Positive Approach to Improve Your Climbing Spain. Russ echoes this sentiment in the podcast. Listen in the clip below:. Russ Clune. From shale to sandstone to limestone, when Russ went to Europe for the first time, he made sure to get onto as many styles and rock types as he possibly could. He also remarks that this was the tactic of all of the best European climbers. So even though it may seem that your multi-pitch climbing trip on Yosemite granite has nothing to do with the steep sport climbing of the Red River Gorge, you are very likely learning something from each of these styles that translates to the other. In addition to style and rock type, there are many other ways that travel can benefit your climbing. In the Podcast, Russ elaborates on this point. It might not be a grade progression, per se…. In conjunction with the benefits of climbing different rocks and styles, experiencing new climbing culture can also have major benefits for your progression as a climber. When I was deep water soloing in Mallorca, I thought a lot about yo-yo style climbing. In contrast to the typical tactics used to project a sport route, when you fall deep water soloing, you go straight into the water and you have to do the whole route over again, hoping to make it a move or two farther on the next go. This is repeated until you or your partner reach the top. In the United States, it used to be frowned upon to hang on a rope and work the moves on something. Though possibly more dramatic than falling on a rope, deep water soloing echoes the sentiments of yo-yo style climbing. As I learned while falling off the tops of many deep water solos, it is exponentially more difficult to project something yo-yo style than it is to hang on the rope and work the moves. For Russ, his trips to Europe were not only enlightening because of the exposure to new areas, he also broadened his horizons past yo-yo projecting. While he climbed there he adopted the practice as well. He quickly came to realize that certain grades were much easier to accomplish if you were open to hanging on the rope to work out the moves. The first climber to project this way in America was Tony Yaniro. In a rapid development, he took to the hang-dogging style of projecting and bumped his max grade ever climbed from 5. But the critics belittled his achievement. Though it took some time, the US eventually adopted the practice of hang-dogging. Russ notes that his first US project where he allowed himself to hang-dog was a 5. Another paradigm shift gained from traveling is your perception of difficulty. Perhaps at your home crag, you do not see anyone climbing harder than 5. Because of the nature of the Red River Gorge and its abundance of moderate crags, this was true for me for my first year of climbing. For perspective, I vividly remember the first time I saw a woman climbing a 5. It looked impossibly difficult. She was a hero in my mind. Then, in I went to Rodellar, Spain for the first time and I met some even stronger female climbers. I met another woman in her late twenties climbing 8a 13b. I thought people that climbed 5. On that trip I was able to interact with a lot of really strong climbers and gave me the idea that maybe I could climb 5. Russ reflects on how the climbers he surrounded himself with made an impact on him too.
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