Posted on 12/28/2017 2:36:12 PM PST by conservative98
Wall climbing can be a fun activity and good exercise. It is also one of the more common elements used by practitioners of parkour. This article will teach you all you need to know if you too would like to learn to climb a wall.
Learning the Basic Wall Climb
1
Stretch yourself and loosen up. Climbing a wall can strain a number of your muscles that you may not have stressed much before. Perform some light exercise and stretch before attempting the wall climb.
2
Find a short wall to practice on. Try to find one that is low enough that your hands can reach over the top of the wall while your feet are still on the ground, but one that is also high enough that your arms will have to be extended to reach the top. Make sure you can grip the wall appropriately. A highly slick or polished surface is not ideal for practice.
3
Grab the top of the wall. Use both hands, and attempt to get as much of your palm on to the top of the wall as you can.[1] Even though your feet remain on the ground, it should appear that you are dangling by your arms. They must remain extended as you grasp the wall.
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I have a teenaged son living at home, so i do not need to climb walls. I am driven up them on a regular basis.
gonna need a bigger wall...
Anti-wall propaganda?
Funny, she doesn’t look ... like a wall climber!
Yeah, but he probably weighs as much as one of the females now that he’s missing a few pieces so lifting that body weight with one arm would be easy.
Very fast when someone is slinging lead at you..
Here is a master of climbing:
” Alex J. Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls.
He has broken a number of speed records, most notably the only known solo climb (mostly free climbing with a few points of aid) of the Yosemite Triple crown, an 18-hour 50 minute link up of Mount Watkins, The Nose, and the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome. He and Hans Florine are the current record holders for the Nose with a climb time of 2:23:51.
Honnold says that he likes tall, long routes and that he tries to do them quickly.He is the author of Alone on the Wall, a collaboration with David Roberts that details his climbing exploits. “ - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC-a0uASo4E
You might look good climbing a wall, but you’ll never look Donald O’Connor good.
And there's this also....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-tgbQ6PcU
Are YOU.. SFS#$%^$%&$ kidding me....!!!???
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