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2. Campus board - Wikipedia

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   Other climbing training 'boards' have been developed since the campus board, including the MoonBoard, a small customized overhanging indoor climbing wall also for plyometric performance, and the hangboard (or also the fingerboard), a device for building up static strength, particularly in the fingers, but also in the arms.

3. Front pointing - Wikipedia

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   Front-pointing (or German technique) is a technique used in mountaineering and ice climbing where a climber embeds, usually by a kicking action, the sharp metal 'front-point(s)' of their modern metal rigid crampon into the ice or hard packed snow to gain a secure foothold to assist their upward momentum on the climbing route.

4. Climbing technique - Wikipedia

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   Climbing technique refers to a broad range of physical movements used in the activity or sport of climbing. [1] Notable sub-groups of climbing technique include: Aid climbing technique as is used in aid climbing; Big wall climbing technique as is used in big wall climbing; Ice climbing technique as is used in ice climbing

5. Get Better, Now. Six Essential Lessons To Go To The ... - AOL

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   Climbing is literally a steep learning curve. This boxed set of advice will flatten the bell, helping you to become a better climber by smoothing out your footwork, teaching you to think outside ...

6. Beta (climbing) - Wikipedia

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   In rock climbing, beta can include background information about a route's grade of difficulty (e.g. what drove the grade), detailed aspects about the crux (e.g. "you need to use your left hand, not your right"), the climbing style needed (e.g. long reaches or tiny crimps), the best way to protect the route (e.g. "insert a number 4 SCLD before ...

7. Spotting (climbing) - Wikipedia

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   Spotters helping a climber on The Chube V2 (5+), in Joshua Tree. Spotting is a climbing technique that is used mostly in bouldering, where other climbers stand beneath an active climber on a route in order to break the impact of any fall, and to reduce the chance of an uncontrolled fall that could result in a serious head or back injury.

8. Wolfgang Güllich - Wikipedia

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   [2] [16] Güllich co-authored with Andreas Kubin a 192-page German book on training for sport climbing called Sportklettern heute (1986), and was an early advocate of bouldering as a way to improve his technique and build performance, saying "the hardest routes are extended boulder problems"; [9] he also studied the use of the "deadpoint". [9]

9. Route setter - Wikipedia

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   A route setter is a person who designs artificial rock climbing wall routes, or problems. Also known as "setters", these professionals combine technical craft with an artistic representation of real rock climbing moves. They do this with modular resin, polyurethane, polyester, fiberglass, or wood holds or "grips" that mimic real rock features.