what is rock climbing

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Traditional (Trad) Traditional or trad climbing is all about adventure, aboutclimbing from the bottom to the top of a cliff and using onlywhat the rock gives. Learn about trad

climbing skills, including gear, how to placecams, leading trad routes, climbingstrategies, climbing safety, and how to climbcracks and big walls.

If you going Traditional or trad climbing theequipment you need would be rock shoes,harness, belay device, locking carabineer,and helmet. With this basic equipment, youcan go trad climbing with a more experienced

mentor who owns a lead rack of gear and arope. There is not a standard rack of equipment for traditional climbing. Everyroute is different and every climbing area,depending on the type of rock found at eachone, protects differently. If you’re jammingcracks on the cliffs around Moab, Utah, you’regoing to need lots of cams to protect parallel-side cracks.

There are all sorts of different place you can go traditional rockclimbing like the Peak District is one of England's most popularclimbing areas. Most of the national park is innorth Derbyshire, but it strays into thesurrounding counties of Cheshire,Staffordshire and Yorkshire.

If you have the basic stuff like the ClimbingShoes, a Harness, a Belay kit, and a ClimbingRope, here's a list of suggested items to

complete a basic but useful Climbing rack.

Start off by buying the passive protection. These solid, non-moving Nuts and Hexes canbe wedged in the rock, and stay in exactlywhere you put them. These are both verylightweight and inexpensive. Then, youractive protection that literally works for youby expanding and gripping the rock harderwhen pulled outward should consist of a

variety of devices fitting cracks from about a



half-inch to five inches. There are lots to choose from in termsof brand and style.

Sport

Sport climbing is a form of rock climbingthat relies on permanent anchors fixed tothe rock, and possibly bolts, forprotection, (in contrast with traditionalclimbing, where the rock is typicallydevoid of fixed anchors and bolts, andwhere climbers must place removableprotection as they climb). Since the needto place protection is virtually eliminated,sport climbing places an emphasis ongymnastic-like ability, strength, andendurance - as opposed to the adventure,risk and self-sufficiency which

characterize traditional climbing.

There are all sorts of different place youcan go when doing sport climbing and thebest place to go is in Australia the BlueMountains and the Grampians or the Nowra, here in the UK youcan go to Portland and Yorkshire and many more to these oneare the main one. There is lots of country that do sportclimbing such as Spain, Germany, Finland and etc.

With this basic equipment, you can do sport climbing. As eachbolt is reached along the route, the climber attaches aquickdraw to the bolt, and then clips the rope through thehanging end of the quickdraw. This bolt is now protecting theclimber in the event of a fall. At the top of sport routes, there istypically a two-bolt anchor that can be used to return theclimber to the ground or previous rappel point, in my view Ifeel you need to be able to be very skillfully to hold on to therock while you put a quickdraw in to the bolts on the wall.

If you’re going sport climbing the equipment you need wouldbe:



• A dynamic rope• Quickdraws• A belay device• Climbing harnesses for belayer and climber• Climbing Shoes and chalk bag are normally used,

although not technically necessary

Bouldering

Bouldering is a style of rockclimbing undertaken without a ropeand normally limited to very shortclimbs over a crash pad so that a fallwill not result in serious injury. It istypically practiced on large naturalboulders or artificial boulders ingyms and outdoor urban areas.Bouldering is a style of climbing,where you need power, strength,

and dynamics. Its focus is on individual moves or shortsequences of moves, unlike traditional climbing or sportclimbing, which generally demand more endurance over longerstretches of rock where the difficulty of individual moves is notas great. Boulder routes are commonly referred to as problemsbecause the nature of the climb is often short, curious, andmuch likes problem solving.

There are all sorts of different place youcan go when doing bouldering such asFairlop Water Park, The ClimbingAcademy and undercoverock but the bestplace to go bouldering is Fontainebleau itthe best bouldering area in Europe if notthe world. The majority of the boulderingis to found in the forests that surroundFontainebleau, which makes for a magicaland unique setting. The sandstone rock is of fantastic quality

and the landings are generally soft and sandy. The boulderingsometimes requires brut strength, but that is rare, most of the



time you need excellent skills in balance, footwork andtechnique.

Bouldering is simplicity itself. The beauty of bouldering is not just doing hard moves but also its minimalism. You don’t needto spend lots of money on equipment to have fun on theboulders. Here are the 3 essential pieces of climbingequipment that you need to go bouldering:

1. Pair of well-fitted rock climbing shoes2. Chalk for sweaty palms3. A chalk bag for your waist belt

2)

Top-rope climbing is a style in climbing in which arope, used for the climber's safety, runs from a belayer at thefoot of a route through one or more carabiners connected to an

anchor system at the top of the route and back down to theclimber.

3) Multi-pitch climbing is the ascent of climbing routes with oneor more stops at a belay station. Each section of actualclimbing between stops at the belay stations is called a pitch.

The leader ascends the pitch, placing gear and stopping toanchor themselves to the belay station.

4) Ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of

features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rockslabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water. For thepurposes of climbing, ice can be broadly divided into twospheres, alpine ice and water ice. Alpine ice is found in amountain environment, usually requires an approach to reach,and is often climbed in an attempt to summit a mountain.

5)

A. Hand Jam is where you jam your hand in a small crack

with the thumb in an upward position, enabling greater



reach between holds.

B. Mantleshelfing is where you Boost upwards using only thearms and ending with arms fully extended downwards.It’s the same motion as getting out of a swimming poolwithout using the ladder.

C. Bridging is where you put your legs in to a bridge positionagainst two walls.

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