The #1 Mistake in Climbing
Do you want to climb harder boulder problems?
Stop doing every attempt from the ground up!
Break down your climbs into smaller sections and practice each section individually.
This simple technique will help you improve your technique, progress faster, and send more problems.
The most common mistake people make in bouldering is doing every attempt from the ground up
With the limited time and energy we have, starting every attempt from the ground up is going to cause us to get less from each session.
Instead, we should make a habit of isolating the climbs hardest moves, and only starting from the ground up when we’ve linked together all of the difficult movements.
But sometimes you’ll get into a situation where on a midway attempt you link all the moves, but then can’t seem to get it from the ground up.
It can lead to thinking you should have just started from the bottom and gotten the send, but the long-term process is more important than the short term result, and if you’ve linked all the moves in isolation it shouldn’t be long before you can link it from the ground up!
Starting every climb from the ground up causes you to get caught in a cycle of repeating moves you already know
instead of focusing on the movement you’re actually trying to learn
But Sometimes you’ll start midway in the climb, cruise through the crux moves and arrive at the top.
So why shouldn’t you just start from the bottom so you can get the send?
Because learning the moves in a less tense practice mode can lead to faster breakthroughs than always being in performance mode.
In practice mode you’re open to new possibilities, but in performance there’s a necessary rigidity, and it’s important to get familiar with both head spaces
So even if you send the move when it’s done in isolation, and fall when you try to link it together,
it's still progress in the right direction.
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