[jjjj]

Has, anyone ever tried rope climbing training as in climbing up a rope not climbing with a rope ive read a couple of things that sugested it was the best excersise for forearm/grip strength.

[slackline]

8m in 4.87 seconds is the world record to beat...



(Never tried it myself though)

[magpie]

I think it would depend how you did it, how that man in the video does it is very different to the way I was taught to climb a rope (in a trapeze / circus skills class).  The way I was taught would be of very little use as most of it's done with your legs, just dragging yourself up a rope, like in the video, would probably be more effective climbing wise but I'm not sure it would be the best sort of training...

[slackline]

According to Wikipedia rope climbing used to be an olympic sport (under gymnastics). 

[a dense loner]

It's fuckin useless

[mrjonathanr]

That's how Gill got into it, isn't it?

I couldn't find an image of him doing that to link to, so have a look at a one-arm front-lever pull up instead.

[erm, sam]

Have a look at this:

http://www.selfcoachedclimber.com/2011/10/program-design-for-climbing-part-4/

[Pebblespanker]

That's how Gill got into it, isn't it?

I think Gill did them because rope climbing used to be a gymnastics discipline back in the day (50's?) thus a regular part of his training at some point, I'll have a nosey in Master of Rock when I get chance but I have read that somewhere recently, not surprisingly he was pretty good at it

[slackline]

I think Gill did them because rope climbing used to be a gymnastics discipline back in the day (50's?) thus a regular part of his training at some point, I'll have a nosey in Master of Rock when I get chance but I have read that somewhere recently, not surprisingly he was pretty good at it

You could read it on the Wiki page I link below which states that it was a gymnastic discipline, but was phased out as it wasn't felt to be "artistic" enough.