Posted by simonty on 8/2/2007
Hi Katie can you give me some tips only been climbing just over a year & all mainly trad pretty low grade routes but am going on a performance sport climbing course in oct to spain can you give me some tips how i can prepare for this?Have been once before so know the techniques its just im pushed to do them in my normal climbing enviroment with the partners i have so its more on a fitness front i need to adapt too.
Thanks Simon
katie says:
Simon,
If you're going on a sport climbing trip and you mainly trad climb, then first of all, you're going to need to do some sport climbing. If there are no sport crags near you, try to find a local gym. Gym climbing is the most time efficient way to improve your fitness for this genre of climbing. When you're starting out, the best method is to just go climbing, lots. On things that are within your ability. This will help build a solid foundation of fitness, and climbing routes that are within your ability level will help you be able to focus on broading your range of movements, techniques and skills rather than just trying to get up the route in any manner possible.
Hope that helps!
Katie
simonty says:
Hi Katie
Thanks for the tips,just found a good sport venue near me with lots of great routes within my climbing range so will be going there as much as possible over the next couple of months before Spain.
Have been going to the local gym quite abit not doing to much but concentrating moving on rock more efficiently & technique so will now boost the amount of routes up a notch each session.How long should i try this for I dont want to burn myself out?
Thanks Simon
BigFatRock says:
Just don't back-clip or z-clip. Coming from a trad background you should be fine. You don't have to fumble around with cams and "friends" don't get in your way either. Spain sounds awesome. Hopefully I will get to climb out of country one day soon.
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