https://youtube/watch?v=wIBvHTdnoeA 1 Hour 1 Route In this video you can see me climbing up and down the same route in different ways. I actually spend a full hour on this route without touching the floor in between, continuously climbing. I don’t know how many times in this hour I climbed the route, but it was often. I did this for the simple reason, that I was interested in what was going to happen, I forgot about the idea of reaching the top and got more into research mode about the way getting there. This is something I like to experiment a lot with right now. Yes I also climb the hard routes that are at my limit and push myself there, but it’s a big pleasure for me as well to go to something very easy and play with the movements. Climbing with different qualities and emphasizes. There is a lot to explore. I see a problem in how many people approach the wall. Common behavior is to try something and if it doesn’t work after a two or three tries, you move on. Common behavior of beginners. Yes it doesn’t make to much sense to spend time on a route that is way to hard for you, but many people seriously lack any persistence here. The general problem is, that people don’t think about „Training“ climbing, but more about „performing climbing. This is also connected to the next problem: many people, that are more advanced, now learned how to stick to a route and work on it, but the moment they reach the top, they jump down or top out and than walk away to the next route, not even looking back. We made a rule here for ourselves, to protect ourselves from this behavior: to climb each route at least 3 times. Why? Because the good stuff is not happening on the first time. Once is never. This is something I adopted from the old school Parkour mentality. In my experience it takes mostly at least 3 successful attempts, to figure out what actually makes more sense and what no so much etc. Bouldering can be more than just reaching the top, there is a lot in between.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:09:44 +0000
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