I thought the use of bands and the heatmap-like color coding of the arrows were genius additions to the video. They really helped me understand the concept.
Great video! The only thing that I miss are some exercises in which I can focus on these four key concepts. So here are some exercises that helped me: 1) Direction of Pull + 4) Triangle base "Robot": you are only allowed to move one limb at a time, while your body is completely static. As soon as you have four limbs on the wall again, you can move the rest of your body at will. This helps me to find good triangle base positions in which my direction of pull is optimal. 2) Timing Momentum "Every move is a dyno": whenever you move your hand, the other hand has to come off the wall as well, even if it returns to the same hold. This taught me the idea of the dead point and forces me to think about my hip movement with every hand movement. 3) Anticipate the end position: "No adjustments allowed": you are never allowed to adjust your grip or your foot placement. You are allowed to pivot (rotate your foot), but not to adjust the position in which your hand or foot touches the hold. This helps me to move with purpose and foresight. All these exercises I do on relatively easy boulders, so I can focus just on the exercise. The point is not that they are a huge challenge, the point is to really focus on optimal movement. I think it is important to not only understand all of this abstractly, but also experience how it feels. Also, this practice builds up intuition, so there is less thinking and hesitation on harder climbs, freeing your mind to focus on all the new hard stuff.
If you're German speaking, there's a book by Alpenverein Österreich called "Kletterspiele" with games and exercises for techniques. Quite playful as the name implies but therefore also loads of fun.
Bro this is honestly one of the best videos ive seen. Easy ways to explain dynamic concepts, good visualization, great editing. Congrats bro. Im a begginer, so im gonna watch this a couple more tines. Great comments too. Love the climbing community.
One of the best “technique” videos I have seen by far. I always find people get stuck trying to memorize techniques instead of understanding how they work and how to climb well in all situations
Excellent basics video to build off of. You should make this into a series with a video for each concept discussing different techniques that help you achieve the concept. Especially for newer climbers there are multiple techniques (like say drop knees) that aren't intuitive. Would only have to list/show the techniques and then climbers can research them further. to learn all the little tips and tricks.
Learning concepts over techniques is such a wise way to learn! Like you mentioned, it allows for individual problem-solving rooted in broad-fundamentals rather than specifically prescribed movement. As a beginner, I'm really excited to bring these concepts into my practice : ) Thank you guys for putting together this video! I've watched a few others from you guys as well and have really been able to connect what I learned in them to my active practice and thought-process. I specifically really appreciate the relaxed yet detailed and comprehensible way of teaching. I weirdly enough never took physics in high school but I was still easily able to follow the parts where you brought in the science. These are videos I will definitely be coming back to and referring to as I grow in climbing. Thanks for introducing them to me (and many others who have been fortunate to find this channel). Cheers!
Wow! Thank you! I’m 74 years old, a lifetime whitewater river guide and free climber of rocks and trees, just now embarking on a gym climbing journey for fun and fitness. The insights you express in this video have opened up a whole new world of discovery and an appreciation for an intellectual engagement that climbing offers. An added dimension of delight… thank you again!
To be honest, I often feel sceptical about videos showing technique tips when showing only certain problems, but this video is absolutely brilliant. Exactly as you said in the beginning, it's stuff like this that will make it possible for people to problem-solve the beta themselves.
Obviously its not groundbreaking information for experienced climbers but I really wish I had something like this to guide me when I started climbing. Especially useful to for newer climbers to refer to this when you're analyzing your own climbing movement and trying to understand what went wrong.
Definitely one of, if not the most comprehensive video ive found. The error ive been told i create most is creating positions where all 4 limbs equally distribute my weight, and i can already tell this will help leaps and bounds!
As a beginner this was super interesting!! Even though I already knew about some of these concepts, they were explained in detail like Ive never seen before. Thank you!😊
Very helpful! I barn door a lot and I think I have always been putting my flag foot in the wrong spot. YI really appreciate the use of physics throughout this as well. You mentioned momentum, and, as a physicist, I feel obligated to also say that the separation between the holds at .86 the speed of light are all half of their rest frame. This makes most routes simpler.
Excellent video and great selection of concepts to learn by heart! I'm quite familiar with most of the things you've explained, and I've often used similar explanations when trying to help my friends solve a problem. Especially the triangle base and direction of pull are extremely important for beginners in my opinion. Thanks a lot!
Fantastic video and really helpful, I'm just getting started at 47 and loving it, I have good fitness and upper body strength but realised very quickly technique and finger strength are really important. I'm constantly in awe of watching people do the routes and how he managed it
Bouldering. So much to learn. These videos are great in introducing so many concepts. Especially for a newbie like me who is finding it very challenging to understand what needs to be done in order to achieve some of the climbs I'm working on.
Amazong video, I'm just starting with bouldering and climbing in general and this kind of educational videos are pure magic! Thanks a lot for the amazing content
I’m a very visual learner, the bands and the arrows were a very good indicator for me. I’m still new and I’m trying to learn how to climb more effectively and efficiently. All your concepts were very helpful!
This is a brilliant video. I have a short attention span but this one got me tuned for the whole time. The direction of pull part was especially helpful for me.
Excellent video yet again, one of the best I've seen. My problem is that when I think too much so to as to follow this advice I loose my natural intuitive positioning. I don't always find it but when I do it's magical! So what I do is that I question myself afterwards why that move has felt good (or so bad).
14:50 I appreciate the concepts in the video, it's really informative ! . However, I can't help but point out the climber is clearly not trying to push with her right leg for some reason. That being said, thank you for the video ^_^
For direction of pull you say perpendicular to the best surface then get your hips into the wall. A more comprehensive version is the direction of pull should be normal (in a purely geometric sense) the the best surface. This will dictate where your hips should be.
Something I noticed I'm not sure about but are men also supposed to create momentum from the hips? Or from the bottom of the torso, a bit above the belly button? Men's center of gravity is a bit higher up than women's, I wonder if thinking about creating momentum from your center of gravity is more appropriate than focusing on the hips
Interesting idea. If we think of it from a muscle and joint perspective, it's easier to generate force around the hip joint than it would be in the spine. But I agree there would be nuances based on the center of mass.
I like the video my feedback is you should show the movements rather than only just talking about it. Sometimes you show it really well but sometimes you’re just talking about it or pointing at it when I was really hoping to see it be performed instead. It’s very easy to understand if you show everything. Talking and pointing is hard for me to fully understand.
Videos like these are what needs to be done with more educational courses and tutorials, ngl. Concept explaining is better than a guy showing a trick 200 times consecutively.
Practice, practice, practice and be as conscious as you can be about your limbs and 'endpoints' i.e. hands and feet. Practice placing your feet so you don't make any noise. The more you do it the better you get. Eventually you can put your toe on a tiny chip hold without even looking at it. We are used to using our hands accurately in daily life, e.g. picking up a hot beverage so that it doesn't spill... but not our feet. Feet require a lot more practice.
The pogo can be quite diverse. If you are throwing the foot, in many cases it should drag the hips along with it and that might be the secondary movement. But hip movement is the outcome we are looking for, for big moves. Without hip movement you won't get closer to the next hold. If you are close to a hold and want to avoid backwards momentum i.e. falling away, you can throw the foot just to maintain hip position and grab the next hold at the "deadpoint".
Love it. But I feel like in our local gym some of these TIPS doesn't work.😢 It has been usually built by tall and strong guys, who prefer bruteforcing it.😅 Or maybe I just lack experiece and imagination... But often I tried to use contrapressure, twisting etc. but holds were in the direction that made it impossible
🙋♂, not a mathematician here. Maybe you can help. My understanding was vectors are used to represent physical quantities that have a magnitude and direction. I got the idea from engineering illustrations, like the typical lever and fulcrum images we all see in textbooks. Is there a more accurate way to describe/illustrate what I am trying to show?
@@LatticeTraining From physical point of view, vectors are exactly what you described in the video and I really liked that you mentioned them, as they truly provide great intuition for climbing. From mathematical point of view, vectors may be more abstract. The set of 3-dimentional physical vectors may be represented as the set of triples of real numbers, like ( -1, 15.4, 8) , ( 2, 6, 0.5) and so on, where the triple contains the coordinates of the point the vector points towards. But nothing stops us from looking at more than three dimensions, for example ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) is a 5 dimensional vector. Its physically impossible (maybe) and yet - mathematically trivial (even a child can imagine a list of 5 numbers). But why stop here? We may have 10, 1000, a million, we may even have infinite dimensions and this is actually used for practical reasons, like doing linear regression in statistics (approximating points with a line). Formally, a vector is "an element of a vector space", which is a special kind of set with a bunch of rules (rules like a+b = b+a, a+0 = a and so on). The joke comes from the fact that physicists almost always use the lovely three dimensional vector, while mathematicians work in the general case, severely overcomplicating simple ideas in their abstract world.
Agreed but this music was contrasted less than the talking which was in its favour. We should just outright ban background music unless it’s for comedy or suspense
I really appreciate the content, but it always bothers me a bit when sports instructions involve a person talking and another person demonstrating throughout in silence, esp. when the demonstrator is a woman and the instructor is a man. Your collaborator clearly knows what she is doing; I think it would strengthen your video if it's more interactive between the two of you.
0:26 Concept 1: Direction of pull
5:58 Concept 2: Timing Momentum
9:10 Concept 3: Anticipate the end Position
11:51 Concept 4: The triangle base
Using bands to explain vectors is genius. I’ve always struggled to explain a vector to someone without the math/physics background
As someone who sucks at equations I appreciated it as well lol
Just use arrows, when you don't have a band :)
The usage of vectors in general makes this much more intuitive for people with math/physics backgrounds, too 😁
I thought the use of bands and the heatmap-like color coding of the arrows were genius additions to the video. They really helped me understand the concept.
I know more than enough math and physics (engineering degree) to understand and still forget everything on the damn wall lol
Great video! The only thing that I miss are some exercises in which I can focus on these four key concepts.
So here are some exercises that helped me:
1) Direction of Pull + 4) Triangle base
"Robot": you are only allowed to move one limb at a time, while your body is completely static. As soon as you have four limbs on the wall again, you can move the rest of your body at will. This helps me to find good triangle base positions in which my direction of pull is optimal.
2) Timing Momentum
"Every move is a dyno": whenever you move your hand, the other hand has to come off the wall as well, even if it returns to the same hold. This taught me the idea of the dead point and forces me to think about my hip movement with every hand movement.
3) Anticipate the end position:
"No adjustments allowed": you are never allowed to adjust your grip or your foot placement. You are allowed to pivot (rotate your foot), but not to adjust the position in which your hand or foot touches the hold. This helps me to move with purpose and foresight.
All these exercises I do on relatively easy boulders, so I can focus just on the exercise. The point is not that they are a huge challenge, the point is to really focus on optimal movement. I think it is important to not only understand all of this abstractly, but also experience how it feels. Also, this practice builds up intuition, so there is less thinking and hesitation on harder climbs, freeing your mind to focus on all the new hard stuff.
If you're German speaking, there's a book by Alpenverein Österreich called "Kletterspiele" with games and exercises for techniques. Quite playful as the name implies but therefore also loads of fun.
The colored arrows are a great idea for visualizing your explanations, keep using them!
Bro this is honestly one of the best videos ive seen. Easy ways to explain dynamic concepts, good visualization, great editing. Congrats bro.
Im a begginer, so im gonna watch this a couple more tines.
Great comments too. Love the climbing community.
One of the best “technique” videos I have seen by far. I always find people get stuck trying to memorize techniques instead of understanding how they work and how to climb well in all situations
Excellent basics video to build off of. You should make this into a series with a video for each concept discussing different techniques that help you achieve the concept. Especially for newer climbers there are multiple techniques (like say drop knees) that aren't intuitive. Would only have to list/show the techniques and then climbers can research them further. to learn all the little tips and tricks.
Agree, can be easily turned into a masterclass where applications within each concept can be expanded!
Learning concepts over techniques is such a wise way to learn! Like you mentioned, it allows for individual problem-solving rooted in broad-fundamentals rather than specifically prescribed movement. As a beginner, I'm really excited to bring these concepts into my practice : )
Thank you guys for putting together this video! I've watched a few others from you guys as well and have really been able to connect what I learned in them to my active practice and thought-process.
I specifically really appreciate the relaxed yet detailed and comprehensible way of teaching. I weirdly enough never took physics in high school but I was still easily able to follow the parts where you brought in the science.
These are videos I will definitely be coming back to and referring to as I grow in climbing. Thanks for introducing them to me (and many others who have been fortunate to find this channel).
Cheers!
Wow! Thank you! I’m 74 years old, a lifetime whitewater river guide and free climber of rocks and trees, just now embarking on a gym climbing journey for fun and fitness. The insights you express in this video have opened up a whole new world of discovery and an appreciation for an intellectual engagement that climbing offers. An added dimension of delight… thank you again!
To be honest, I often feel sceptical about videos showing technique tips when showing only certain problems, but this video is absolutely brilliant. Exactly as you said in the beginning, it's stuff like this that will make it possible for people to problem-solve the beta themselves.
Obviously its not groundbreaking information for experienced climbers but I really wish I had something like this to guide me when I started climbing. Especially useful to for newer climbers to refer to this when you're analyzing your own climbing movement and trying to understand what went wrong.
The direction of pull part changed my game overnight and made climbing easier, very impressed with this video.
Definitely one of, if not the most comprehensive video ive found. The error ive been told i create most is creating positions where all 4 limbs equally distribute my weight, and i can already tell this will help leaps and bounds!
This is the video I’ve been looking for for WEEKS. Principles, not specific moves. ❤
This is gold. I always find principles more helpful than techniques. Or at least, they allow me to get more out of techniques. Thanks
As a beginner this was super interesting!! Even though I already knew about some of these concepts, they were explained in detail like Ive never seen before. Thank you!😊
I’ve watched hundreds of climbing videos this is the best free lesson video I’ve seen so far ❤ thank you! 🙏🏻
Very helpful! I barn door a lot and I think I have always been putting my flag foot in the wrong spot.
YI really appreciate the use of physics throughout this as well. You mentioned momentum, and, as a physicist, I feel obligated to also say that the separation between the holds at .86 the speed of light are all half of their rest frame. This makes most routes simpler.
Thanks for sharing these concepts, the mindset of anticipation, keeping your body in a triangle position and the timing momentum are precious.
one of the best videos on this channel! great stuff to broaden our way of movement instead of specializing further
Great tips! Definitely going into my CLIMBING TIPS playlist. Lots to absorb, but worth watching again and again!👍🏽
Well explained video thank you. Keep up the good work.
Excellent video and great selection of concepts to learn by heart!
I'm quite familiar with most of the things you've explained, and I've often used similar explanations when trying to help my friends solve a problem.
Especially the triangle base and direction of pull are extremely important for beginners in my opinion.
Thanks a lot!
Impressive masterclass on climbing physics!!!! Thanks a lot!!!
Fantastic video and really helpful, I'm just getting started at 47 and loving it, I have good fitness and upper body strength but realised very quickly technique and finger strength are really important. I'm constantly in awe of watching people do the routes and how he managed it
Bouldering. So much to learn. These videos are great in introducing so many concepts. Especially for a newbie like me who is finding it very challenging to understand what needs to be done in order to achieve some of the climbs I'm working on.
Amazong video, I'm just starting with bouldering and climbing in general and this kind of educational videos are pure magic! Thanks a lot for the amazing content
Awesome video and very helpful for beginners and even for experienced climbers when analyzing what went wrong when projecting something hard.👍
I’m a very visual learner, the bands and the arrows were a very good indicator for me. I’m still new and I’m trying to learn how to climb more effectively and efficiently. All your concepts were very helpful!
This is a brilliant video. I have a short attention span but this one got me tuned for the whole time. The direction of pull part was especially helpful for me.
this is so helpful for a newbie like me. thank you!
Thank you sharing these concepts, wonderful! 🥳
Excellent explanation, it was awesome to see the close ups and the arrows edition was on point. God bless youuu!!
Excellent video yet again, one of the best I've seen.
My problem is that when I think too much so to as to follow this advice I loose my natural intuitive positioning. I don't always find it but when I do it's magical! So what I do is that I question myself afterwards why that move has felt good (or so bad).
Excellent video! The focus on broad concepts is a good idea versus just individual techniques.
Great video! Lots to think about. Can you make a video elaborating on and giving some more examples of the "timing momentum" concept?
Thanks! Basic concepts with tuning for your height, arm and legs length, finger strength.
An amazing explanation and perspective - thank you!
Even if not clearly, it's nice to see someone talking about base of support and cog in climbing. Easily the most slept on principle imo
Your content has made a real impact on me.
This is fantastically useful to me, thank you
As a beginner this was very informative and helpful. Thank you for the breakdown of the concepts
Great video.
As a 7a-c climber, I still find it very useful and interesting.
One of the best of its kind.
Thanks
Fantastic explanation. Thank you!
14:50 I appreciate the concepts in the video, it's really informative ! . However, I can't help but point out the climber is clearly not trying to push with her right leg for some reason.
That being said, thank you for the video ^_^
That is a great video! Thanks
I just started climbing today lol, gonna save this into my playlist for future reference.
thank you, gonna try it out :)
Great video, super helpful beginner tips
Thank you for the knowledge
Really nicely explained, like the science approach.
Love the break down - thanks!
For direction of pull you say perpendicular to the best surface then get your hips into the wall. A more comprehensive version is the direction of pull should be normal (in a purely geometric sense) the the best surface. This will dictate where your hips should be.
woahh this video is super informative for a beginner like me!! thank you so much for the vid i feel like i discovered climbing hacks
Very useful and well done. Thanks
Nice sweater
pretty intuitive! thanks!!
This
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amazing.
Lovely tutorial video! very usefull!
💪🏻💪🏻🤩 nice. Thanks
Something I noticed I'm not sure about but are men also supposed to create momentum from the hips? Or from the bottom of the torso, a bit above the belly button? Men's center of gravity is a bit higher up than women's, I wonder if thinking about creating momentum from your center of gravity is more appropriate than focusing on the hips
Interesting idea. If we think of it from a muscle and joint perspective, it's easier to generate force around the hip joint than it would be in the spine. But I agree there would be nuances based on the center of mass.
Awesome!! Thanks:)
Excellent 👍
I like the video my feedback is you should show the movements rather than only just talking about it. Sometimes you show it really well but sometimes you’re just talking about it or pointing at it when I was really hoping to see it be performed instead. It’s very easy to understand if you show everything. Talking and pointing is hard for me to fully understand.
Pro video great advice too🙏
Videos like these are what needs to be done with more educational courses and tutorials, ngl. Concept explaining is better than a guy showing a trick 200 times consecutively.
Thank you.
Thanks a lot
Can you make a video about how to increase precision while climbing?
Practice, practice, practice and be as conscious as you can be about your limbs and 'endpoints' i.e. hands and feet. Practice placing your feet so you don't make any noise. The more you do it the better you get. Eventually you can put your toe on a tiny chip hold without even looking at it.
We are used to using our hands accurately in daily life, e.g. picking up a hot beverage so that it doesn't spill... but not our feet. Feet require a lot more practice.
The ultimate prop for your teaching: a stick with an arrow on it :D
Nice!
Good video
Nice background music
are you really sure about the hips while doing the pogo? when I pogo i focus on "throwing" the weight of my leg
And when you so, you move your foot along with your hips. Maybe you don’t notice because you just “feel” your climbing. Which is great!
The pogo can be quite diverse. If you are throwing the foot, in many cases it should drag the hips along with it and that might be the secondary movement. But hip movement is the outcome we are looking for, for big moves. Without hip movement you won't get closer to the next hold. If you are close to a hold and want to avoid backwards momentum i.e. falling away, you can throw the foot just to maintain hip position and grab the next hold at the "deadpoint".
Officially the first to be able to put this to test
Jen lookin’ fit.
Love it. But I feel like in our local gym some of these TIPS doesn't work.😢 It has been usually built by tall and strong guys, who prefer bruteforcing it.😅 Or maybe I just lack experiece and imagination... But often I tried to use contrapressure, twisting etc. but holds were in the direction that made it impossible
Can you add Turkish subtitles to the videos? @Lattice Training
Excuse me, but that's not what vector is. Vector is an element of a vector space.
(said the mathematician)
🙋♂, not a mathematician here. Maybe you can help. My understanding was vectors are used to represent physical quantities that have a magnitude and direction. I got the idea from engineering illustrations, like the typical lever and fulcrum images we all see in textbooks.
Is there a more accurate way to describe/illustrate what I am trying to show?
@@LatticeTraining From physical point of view, vectors are exactly what you described in the video and I really liked that you mentioned them, as they truly provide great intuition for climbing.
From mathematical point of view, vectors may be more abstract.
The set of 3-dimentional physical vectors may be represented as the set of triples of real numbers, like ( -1, 15.4, 8) , ( 2, 6, 0.5) and so on, where the triple contains the coordinates of the point the vector points towards.
But nothing stops us from looking at more than three dimensions, for example ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) is a 5 dimensional vector. Its physically impossible (maybe) and yet - mathematically trivial (even a child can imagine a list of 5 numbers).
But why stop here?
We may have 10, 1000, a million, we may even have infinite dimensions and this is actually used for practical reasons, like doing linear regression in statistics (approximating points with a line).
Formally, a vector is "an element of a vector space", which is a special kind of set with a bunch of rules (rules like a+b = b+a, a+0 = a and so on).
The joke comes from the fact that physicists almost always use the lovely three dimensional vector, while mathematicians work in the general case, severely overcomplicating simple ideas in their abstract world.
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terrible background music
Agreed but this music was contrasted less than the talking which was in its favour.
We should just outright ban background music unless it’s for comedy or suspense
Ou shut up
Ahhhh, now I can't unhear.
Indeed
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I really appreciate the content, but it always bothers me a bit when sports instructions involve a person talking and another person demonstrating throughout in silence, esp. when the demonstrator is a woman and the instructor is a man. Your collaborator clearly knows what she is doing; I think it would strengthen your video if it's more interactive between the two of you.
I'd rather see the demo with no one else in the picture.
Just some constructive feedback 😅
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