Top Skills to Enhance Your Roof Climbing Technique

What is a Roof in Climbing? A roof in climbing is a severely overhanging face. There is no hard and fast rule, but a steep face typically becomes a roof […]
Exaggerated Weight Shifting in Rock Climbing

Refined Core Skill Exaggerated weight shifting is considered a refined core skill. Because of the problems with relying on “feel” at steeper angles, climbers need to be almost over-focused on […]
Mastering Foot Sequencing in Climbing
Sequencing Feet The recommended prerequisite for sequencing feet is mastery of doing basic hand sequences. In this earlier article, we mentioned your hand sequence informs your foot sequence. As we […]
Steep Overhanging Skills For Advanced Climbers
Climbing steep routes (10 to 30 degrees) at higher grades requires a particular focus on applying core principles. At these angles, as with advanced climbing, the feel of efficient positions […]
Twist-Locking Series: A Final Word on Twist-Locks
A Word of Caution Twist-locks are a valuable, and in some cases essential, skill for improving your flexibility and efficiency on the wall. They open up the use of higher […]
Twist-Locking Series: The Complete Guidelines
Twist-Locks Twist-locking refers to a family of skills, all of which are based on the same underlying concepts: the twist, and the lock. These two concepts provide a new, and […]
Twist-Locking Series: Straight-Arming and the Upper Body Twist
Upper Body Twists So far in our articles of twist-locks we have concentrated on our lower body, which is where the bulk of the work happens. But if you noticed […]
Twist-Locking Series: The Basics of the Reverse Flag
The Most Specialized of the Skills Twist-locking refers to a family of skills, all of which are based on the same underlying concepts: the twist, and the lock. These two […]
Twist-Locking Series: Advanced Drop-Knees Techniques
Use Drop-Knees with Steeper Climbs Steep climbing is where drop knees really shine. The ability of the oppositional foot to keep a lock on getting the hips over the heel […]
Twist-Locking Series: The Basics of Drop-Knees
What is Twist-Locking Twist-locking refers to a family of skills, all of which are based on the same underlying concepts: the Twist, and the Lock. These two concepts provide a […]