Warm Ups

Question 1

Look up—look down

Answer 1

Look where your placing feet and hands. Start over if you mess up.

Question 2

Baby Steps

Answer 2

Make three foot movements for every hand movement. Use other problems if you have to.

Question 3

High steps

Answer 3

Choose a route you can do easily. Place your feet as high as possible with each step.

Question 4

Downclimbing

Answer 4

Down climb after climbing a route

Question 5

Ninja feet / quiet feet

Answer 5

Place feet without noise

Question 6

Sticky feet

Answer 6

Don’t move or twist your feet once placed

Question 7

Chips only

Answer 7

Climb with only chips for feet

Question 8

Intermediate steps

Answer 8

Smear one foot on the wall before placing the other on a foothold

Question 9

Matching feet

Answer 9

Traverse the wall and match feet while moving

Question 10

Strong feet

Answer 10

Climb step wall while keeping feet on the wall. Don’t use heel or toe hooks

Question 11

Trickster

Answer 11

Add on from strong feet. Don’t cut feet, but use all feet tricks on 40 degrees or more

Question 12

Let the hold decide

Answer 12

Climb route as intended. Openhanded grip on all pockets and good holds, half crimp on all edges, and punch every pinchable hold

Question 13

Traversing

Answer 13

Traverse

Question 14

Locking off

Answer 14

Lock off one to three seconds before grabbing the next hold

Question 15

Matching

Answer 15

Match all hand holds

Question 16

Find the rest

Answer 16

Find five rests where you can hang 20 to 30 seconds

Question 17

Climbing without pinching

Answer 17

Find a problem with pinches, but don’t pinch

Question 18

Climbing with fewer fingers

Answer 18

Climb with two or three fingers. Practice on slab or vertical walls.

Question 19

One hand only

Answer 19

Climb a few boulders with one hand

Question 20

No hands

Answer 20

Traverse if needed, but try to find a couple problems to complete without hands

Question 21

Finding the position

Answer 21

Static climbs

Question 22

Sidepulls only

Answer 22

Find a problem or wall that you can climb with only or mostly sidepulls

Question 23

Crossing the line

Answer 23

Cross left hand past your center line. Grab a hold a little to the right with your left hand. Practice going farther hold with your right after cross. Repeat with other side

Question 24

Compression

Answer 24

Compress in different distances. Keep left and right hand as symmetrical as possible

Question 25

Down and up

Answer 25

On slightly overhanging wall, lower your body and start every move with your arms straight. Try to deadpoint the next move, pull body towards wall, and stick the move with feet

Question 26

Deadly precision

Answer 26

Find a move that you can’t execute statically. Dynamically move toward the hold. Once you are comfortable with the movement, then repeat ten times. Repeat with other hand.

Question 27

Hips to the wall

Answer 27

Twisty hips to touch the wall with every hand move

Question 28

Extend and press

Answer 28

On way most likely vert climb, start with left hand on the start hold. Bump up with right to other holds while pressing up with your left on the same hold it started. Bump as high as you can go. Switch hands for next climb.

Question 29

Pendulum

Answer 29

Rock back and forth while climbing, keeping the rhythm and placing hands and feet with rhythm

Question 30

Dyno Practice

Answer 30

Jump off climbs, balance on for a while. Add twists off. Go up a foot hold or two