How Climbers Do Impossible Things (essential for bouldering)

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All climbers wonder “How can I climb better”? Learning how to project climbing routes & boulder problems is the best way to get good at climbing and become a better climber. Within bouldering, the process is absolutely essential. You can begin projecting as early as V2, and it becomes essential when you want to climb V5, V6, and above. This climbing technique is the key to climbing harder problems and climbing better.

If you're watching the climbing olympics, you'll probably see climbers do impossible moves, especially when bouldering. These olympic level skills are developed in part by the process of projecting.

Projecting is breaking down hard routes and boulder problems into smaller moves so that you develop the strength and technique to accomplish them.

Even when I was a beginner at indoor bouldering, incapable of sending V2, projecting has helped me to progress in climbing and climb better. My first project was a white V2 and it took nearly 2 months of effort to tackle.

The stoke from that first big send propelled me into trying to project more boulders, and I ended up sending V4 two months later, and sending V5 only a month after that.

Overall, my projecting journey took me from V1 to V8 indoors, and VB-V6 outdoors (an even more brutal journey to be honest).

In this video, I hope to inspire beginner climbers to start this process early, and encourage skilled climbers to keep trying hard!

Timestamps ::

00:00 Introduction
00:22 Cave Crushing, Crazy Dynos & Tiny Crimps
01:10 Video Overview
01:51 How To Project
02:22 Why is this effective?
03:27 Choosing your Project
04:56 Isolating the Movement
06:34 Stringing together Sequences
07:17 Going for the Send
08:09 After the Project (What we get to keep)
09:30 Final Thoughts

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers,
jd

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Joe these videos are SO awesome!! We've never climbed but this makes us want to learn... thanks for the amazing tips!! <3

ustheduo

I've watched a lot of the climbing vids. Yours, by far, are near professional in quality. Also appreciate the diction and sound quality. You're going to blow up, just keep on grinding

threxplayspickleball

Great advice! What you said towards the end about remembering the project for a long time is so true. My first V3 crux ended with a large (for me) dyno of about 4 feet diagonally, even though I still had 4 more holds. In hindsight it might have been because I’m color blind and can’t distinguish certain shades, LOL! But now I know I can dyno…

RossPotts

Wow really helpful details. Thanks for all the info!

ellenyi

SICK! Loveeee this topic, one of the elements of climbing that make it so amazing 😍

Brian_Birdies

I've been looking for an educational youtuber, u are by far the best and hope u keep up the videos. Looking forward to finishing all of your videos!

ryanmackenzie