6 Tricks to climb harder every session

Today we talk about 6 different tips and trick I use to climb at my best and improve every session.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:25 Practice new movements
1:52 Bonus tip!
2:20 Compression technique
3:50 Pinch harder!
5:19 Mental activation
7:16 Standing on nothing
9:37 Planning the climb

My gear:
Favorite shoes
Chalk Bucket
Chalk bag

Everything shot on Sony A7SIII with Tamron lenses.

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[safestate]

Sometimes cllimbing requires complex techniques, sometimes you just gotta squeeze harder.

[EmilAbrahamsson]

Heyo everybody!
I hope you all enjoyed this tips+tricks video. In other news get your notifcation bells going and subscribe, because in a few days I'll be releasing the first episode I made with Pete Whittaker (Wide Boyz), and after that I've got videos with him + Matilda Söderlund coming out. I'm very psyched about that collaboration, and hope none of you miss it!

[PanzrKunst]

I laughed hearing that one: "some of us have a lot of weakness, so we have to get our conditions outselves" :D

[BiskitBandit]

Re: Tip #2 - Listened to a Lattice podcast recently and Ollie Torr described this type of climbing (in reference to Aiden Roberts' style) as Vacuum climbing because of how engaging the back muscles in this way "sucks" you into the wall. A rather apt description of this tip!

[AllegraClimbingPsychologist]

Love tip #4! It's a lot about self-efficacy and goal-setting. A lot of people when climbing hard problems focus on the objective of sending and have a fixed mindset that they need best conditions to perform optimally. However, when the goal is to train, improve, learn and do your best, you can recruit more mentally and sometimes you even surprise yourself sending what you thought you couldn't do!

[gatosospechosop]

I absolutely love these videos, never stop Emil!!

[MartinOfEarth]

sick video as always!
100k very soon champ, grats!

As odd as it sounds, its kinda cool to hear you breathe and especially hold your breath. Not sure if i can actually take something away from it, but just like Adams screaming, it is very important to remember that mastering a clench or relaxing breath in certain key moments can be crucial to the top

[donderCS]

Tip 5 is my absolute bane. I’ve never thought to contextualize my issue with those little foot holds as “not trusting myself.” I’ve kinda been in my head, thinking that I just can’t do them.

[simonrobbins]

I love the "squeeze harder" for pinches tip. I focus on crushing the hold with my thumb and crazily it seems to work!

[justapenoindex]

your way of explaining thought processes and stuf like that is just awesome! video idea: go to a gym and walk up to strangers who seem to struggle with a boulder, no matter the grade, and offer them your help. oh, and start with my home gym on tuesday morning :'D

[renatofranze]

Cool to see you climb one of the boulders from the recent University Bouldering Battle. Lots of fun!

[tierrakaffe]

Love how you convey and communicate technique. Never enough of that stuff.. Keep going Emil, ALMOST 100k wtf ^^! gj man <3

[Birb_brain]

i've watch this video when it was first live, but i'm revisiting this again since i'm projecting on boulder that is at my max lvl and i'm gaining new understanding from your tips that I don't think I got from my first watch through! thanks for the great reflection, tips and video! You can be sure that i will come back to this (type of) video again and again!

[partykrew]

dude, the squeeze harder thing on pinches is something ive done before and it totally works. its kinda crazy but just thinking and engaging more with pinches makes a huge difference

[lukasz-dgrn]

Great video as always. :) One from me (and I know many people struggle with it without knowing): on long boulders - focus on breathing. We (boulderers) often forget about breathing while lead climbing but it also applies to longer boulders. One move boulder can also benefit from a few deep breaths before starting but with long boulders it's quite important to make sure you're breathing whenever the movement gives you opportunity to breathe. And by long boulders I mean anything longer than 6 moves. For 8-10 move boulders it is already huge to actively think about breathing.

[danylokozynets]

1:26, when landing on a pad sounds like broken bone 😂

[devinhuff]

Thank you for teaching me something today. Really learned a lot from this

[elvinkrill]

I love this kind of videos! You are the only climbing youtuber who i can actually learn from.

[cedric]

I use a lot of active thinking standing on volumes, when I know that I have to keep my weight on my foot if I don't want to slip when I initiate the next move. I obviously don't use the "squeeze harder" technique but the "Press ! Press !" one. It works incredibly well, will try to use it for pinches too I guess.

[czatax]

Maybe next video about outdoor sitstarts practice. You are not short climber so it would be interesting to see your approach.