Strategies for Rock Climbing

Video Transcript

"My name is Scott and I'm the owner of Climb On indoor rock climbing gym in Wilmington, North Carolina. Today we are going to discuss strategies for rock climbing. The first strategy for rock climbing would to be get proper instruction from a qualified rock climbing instructor. Once you've done that if you go to and indoor gym you are going to see a lot of routes which are taped and marked in different difficulties. Once you begin climbing these routes you are going to want to look at the difficulty level and then begin to climb it. The reason that they are marked is so that you are not climbing above your level. So if you are a beginner you are going to climb these zeros or v ones. If you are a more climber you are going to climb v threes or v eights or v fives. The higher that number goes the harder the problem is going to become. And that is across the country. So if we were climbing a v one, we would only use the yellow tape. So one of the strategies I would use is to take a look at the climb to know where I'm going to move and how I'm going to use that movement. So by looking at that climb I know it ends over there on the right. So what I would do is start down here, and use my feet on the wall to get to these next holes so I that I could advance to the end. This has been strategies for rock climbing."