TOP 10 Tips for Beginner Boulderers

what up guys it's Jake and Joe here we're gonna go through our top 10 tips to begin about tip number 1 use your toes and most common mistakes we see at the climbing wall is people not using their toes but instead they use their midsole this will restrict your movement it will also give you less traction on the whole so if Joe was to tend to the toe he can pivot oh look at that pivot it will also allow you to reach further so you can go right up onto your tiptoes climbing shoes are designed specifically so that you can stand on small holes like this he tried to stand on that hold on the midsole you'd slip straight off wouldn't be possibly tip number two use your legs they have some of the biggest muscles in our body it's not all about pulling climbing sometimes you've got a push with those legs ok - climbing we want to try to be as efficient as we can see if you're on a slab walk we're trying to use our legs because they can pretty push us up this board so no climbing here and you bring my weight over and really push up with my leg I'm not just pulling up with my arm like this ok we're not dragging ourselves all the way it's also really important on the overhang that we use our legs to push us towards these holds we use a combination of push from the legs and a bit of momentum to swing ourselves towards number three climb with straight arms and this ties in quite nicely with tip number two climbing with bent arms will cause you to fatigue cooker if you climb with straight arms it allows you to relax and you can sort of hang on your skeleton a good example of this is if you go to the supermarket and you carry in your shopping bags home how do you carry the shopping bag two straight arms or bent arms that's right straight arms because if you if you carry with burn arms you're going to be so tired by the time you get home tips lemur a watcher read your rhythms there's no point finding the start holds jumping on and just trying to work out on the way you're gonna waste energy you're probably gonna get your hands wrong which means it's probably not gonna get the time take some time before you start climbing have a look where your roof goes try and work out what hand is gonna go to Port Holt before you jump off it's gonna make it a lot easier when you go tip number five don't use too much chalk this goes for loose and liquid sure you use too much it can actually have a detrimental effect on the traction you have allowed this is especially important for liquid chalk if you use too much it's going to take too long to dry and you might end up climbing with wet hands go for loose chalk you use too much it's effectively like climbing on just imagine sliding off slopers with tiny little marbles below your palms less traction tip number six don't be afraid to fail part of this falling is a good thing okay guys if you're falling it means you're trying hard and amazing you're gonna become a better you're not very good at something you should work on it work your weaknesses if you can't hold on to a slow fer work on a slow bit if you fall off that's fine it means you're learning how to get better as a client George any one of our videos worth falling off okay it's because we're trying hard persistence is key you want to get a sense tip number seven climb with as many different people as you can variety is the spice of life learn a lot more and you'll learn a lot faster if you climb with people that are really good at dynamic moves really good at slab static moves really short people really tall people you'll learn everything and what's really really important is try and climb with people that are slightly better than you sometimes you learn so much I'm usually really dynamic so it's good for me to climb with people that find a little bit slower and a little bit more statically so I can learn the way of the static eight one of the most common questions we get asked is watch flight training for climbing our best answer don't if you're just starting out just climb that's the best way for you to get strong and if you start training too soon you're going up hurting yourself you know tweak a finger you're gonna pull a muscle somewhere for now the best thing you can do the best training for climbing to climb hey tip number nine invest in a well-fitting pair of shoes it's very important if your shoes are too big you cannot possibly progress you won't be able to stand on anything you have to use your toe or your heel properly if you fit them too small you're being too much pain to progress you won't even want to climb so get them just right make sure you get a professional to fit them for you finally the most important tip of all how firm the best climber is the one with the biggest smile [Music] number a new weapon

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Length: 5min 14sec (314 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 24 2018