Rooting Arms

The purpose of this exercise is to learn to drive with your arms throughout the entirety of a movement.

It’s natural to generate a lot of power to initiate a move and then immediately take your focus away from the holds that you are still on, and focus on the hold you are going to.

As you are reaching with one hand for the next hold, turn your focus to the other arm that is still in contact with the wall. Drive with that arm all the way through the move until just after you latch the hold. If you stop driving too early, you will hit the hold without enough tension, causing your body to sag away from the wall and increasing the strain on your fingers.

This is a practice of coordination. Start on easier boulders that you can do without having to think too much to complete them. As you do this drill over several sessions, it will require less thought to execute, so you will be able to practice it on harder and harder climbs. The correct difficulty of climb should be one where it feels about as hard to mentally focus on the drill as it does to physically execute it.

Видео Rooting Arms канала Power Company Climbing