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#25 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 10:28:35 am
Has anyone said any different?

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#26 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 10:35:12 am
Given the overload of tedious threads about the 'tinkering' 'party tricks' recently, and basically none about how to improve actual technique, I'd say yes.

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#27 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 10:53:52 am
I'm sure there are plenty of ways to improve on the basics of the three exercises I've posted.

by doing them at the end of a long day's climbing?

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#28 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 01:02:32 pm
Just to point out to Eddies (off the back of his recent puntering of Dave) that DAVETHOMAS90 (assuming he's who I think he is) is hardly "young&keen but much to learn"...  :jab:

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#29 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 01:53:14 pm
 ;D

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#30 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 01:56:18 pm
Hey folks.

Always great to hear different opinions on things.

I started this thread because I happened to be psyched about an exercise - slow negative muscle up and variations of - which isolated and focused on a particular strength of great relevance, in my opinion, to my climbing.

And I wanted to share it. Along with a couple of other moves - in particular the tucked lever row, which I think is really great, and as I said, far more relevant to climbing, in my opinion, than any normal pull up.

Punterring me for that seems a tad cheap - and miserable.

I've also pointed out that simply getting good at bar routines isn't the point of this - although I appreciate it's probably great fun to show off your lever prowess.

Neither am I saying "do this, and you will become a great climber". So there, and  :icon_321: springs to mind (I love that smiley, as I can't do it in real life).

Perhaps one quality that seems consistent with many top climbers, is their capacity for enthusiasm, self motivation, and finding their own answers and innovation. Probably because they possess their own intrinsic enjoyment of it.

If anyone is interested, it would be good to get a little feedback, or to know if anyone else does something similar.

That being said, I fully appreciate the necessity of having a solid OAP (one arm pull up) in one's repertoire!

There are many exercises that a lot of climbers focus on too much, as ends in themselves, campus boarding being one of them. However, being good at those exercises generally requires having specific strengths that are highly transferrable to climbing.

If anyone else has found a little gem that has worked for them, why not post about that.  :2thumbsup:

DT.


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#31 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 01:58:51 pm
Ok rite so are you the Dave Thomas who soloed Caveman and is on the front of the Nick White 1994 South Devon and Dartmoor guide?

If you are then you're a goddamn hero. 

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#32 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:21:15 pm
Ok rite so are you the Dave Thomas who soloed Caveman and is on the front of the Nick White 1994 South Devon and Dartmoor guide?

If you are then you're a goddamn hero.

Oh 'eck. Nah.. blame someone else  ;D

Still young and keen, with much to learn.

Aren't we all!

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#33 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:23:34 pm
Oh so you're not?

 :( how disappointing. Punter away everyone.

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#34 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:36:19 pm
I used to be not able to climb at a proper facility at all, and so resorted to developing strength using a door pullup bar. While it did not help me very much then, I think that now that I have the much vaunted board to train on, I am able to progress quite quickly since I have a large base of lock-off strength. I would still much rather have been able to train on a 50 back then instead of faffing around with one arms. Perhaps if I had been training on a 50 for longer I would have done a bloody one arm by now.

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#35 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:37:02 pm
Oh so you're not?

 :( how disappointing. Punter away everyone.

Hmm tricky.
« Last Edit: April 15, 2015, 02:51:11 pm by DAVETHOMAS90 »

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#36 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:44:56 pm
Ok rite so are you the Dave Thomas who soloed Caveman and is on the front of the Nick White 1994 South Devon and Dartmoor guide?

If you are then you're a goddamn hero.

Never mind that he soloed Lord!  :o

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#37 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:48:01 pm
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Oh so you're not?

 :( how disappointing. Punter away everyone.

Quite... 

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#38 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:50:53 pm
I'd rather solo lord than caveman I reckon (he says having never been on caveman but having looked at that cave).. at least on lord you're only likely to fall if you fuck up, caveman has sketchy choss to deal with by the looks of it!

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#39 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:52:06 pm

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#40 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:52:33 pm

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#41 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 02:59:15 pm
Stop being so modest Dave.  :)

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#42 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 03:03:26 pm
Ok rite so are you the Dave Thomas who soloed Caveman and is on the front of the Nick White 1994 South Devon and Dartmoor guide?

If you are then you're a goddamn hero.

Never mind that he soloed Lord!  :o


Never mind Wales you absurdly parochial sweetcorn enthusiast. Caveman slightly bigger deal than a single pitch at the Stanage of North Wales.

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#43 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 03:07:24 pm
Don't be so sensitive Dave, its only the internet. Fluff away at all the edges you like.



I wonder if the offending punterer thought you were born in 1990....

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#44 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 03:08:49 pm
Whilst I appreciate that this is completely off topic, I'd like to make a public shout out for Joe Healey.

I've known Joe for many years, not always got on, but a great guy, and someone for whom their climbing has clearly been a private affair. I only found out recently just what he'd been doing "back in the day" - as in 30 years ago.

A very rare talent.

 :beer2:

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#45 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 03:14:59 pm
And by the sound of it!

http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/journal/original/1991%20Journal-p118-127.pdf

(Page 8 onwards)

Cool, I always knew DAVETHOMAS90 was really Crispin Waddy in disguise.

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#46 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 03:46:34 pm
Some chance of landing in the sea off Caveman though isn't there? Not a great landing on Lord.

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#47 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 03:59:42 pm
Ok rite so are you the Dave Thomas who soloed Caveman and is on the front of the Nick White 1994 South Devon and Dartmoor guide?

If you are then you're a goddamn hero.

Never mind that he soloed Lord!  :o



Never mind Wales you absurdly parochial sweetcorn enthusiast. Caveman slightly bigger deal than a single pitch at the Stanage of North Wales.

Single pitch is 50 metres though.  :ras:

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#48 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 05:00:00 pm
Whilst I appreciate that this is completely off topic, I'd like to make a public shout out for Joe Healey.

I've known Joe for many years, not always got on, but a great guy, and someone for whom their climbing has clearly been a private affair. I only found out recently just what he'd been doing "back in the day" - as in 30 years ago.

A very rare talent.

 :beer2:

would he mind you sharing his exploits?

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#49 Re: Training Top Tips
April 15, 2015, 05:29:05 pm
Whilst I appreciate that this is completely off topic, I'd like to make a public shout out for Joe Healey.

I've known Joe for many years, not always got on, but a great guy, and someone for whom their climbing has clearly been a private affair. I only found out recently just what he'd been doing "back in the day" - as in 30 years ago.

A very rare talent.

 :beer2:

would he mind you sharing his exploits?

Hmm, I was wondering about that. I'd been chatting with a certain MrJonathonR of this parish quite recently, and La Berezina, back in 1985, along with his own Monobloc V11 at Pex about the same time, stood out for me. I'd be sensitive about too much fanfare perhaps, and others will have their own first hand knowledge, but it's clear to me that nothing matters more to him than the love of it. Hope it's OK to speculate about something so personal.

 

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