How to climb trad #1 Scramble #trainingforclimbing

The first in a series on how to climb trad, from the absolute basics right through to E11. Its a huge subject and not one where taking shortcuts tends to work out well in the long term. In this video, we start easy, and fun!

My Books on training for climbing:

[richardbradley]

Scrambling was how I started years ago. The progression from there was defined by increasing laziness and i therefore finished up as a boulderer :😂

[dangerdave]

the start of what will no doubt be a spectacular series, right on dave, keep it up, stay safe

[balke]

this is a great idea for a series... learning to trust gear - so important.

[Dougie]

You had 4, 500 respondents to your survey?! That's amazing. We have clinical research survey projects and are happy to get 100 folks to reply. With such a large data set you should be able to make some fairly strong assumptions about climbing diets. Taking the survey was somewhat informative to my own diet since it forced me to quantify my normal eating habits. Looking forward to reading your results. Interested to see how you handle your survey being very European diet centered and respondents being from vastly different food ethnicities. Best, Doug

[alexmetcalfe]

I could listen to you talk all day Dave. A fair about scrambling to aid in trad progression. I’ve found it really benefited my alpinism too.

[lucienlo]

Here comes the first episode of a very interesting series! Thank you for doing this!

[sbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbsb]

I'm watching this series with interest as my 13-year old son is just starting his trad journey; he's led 6c indoors and a couple of VS outdoors, but I really want him to learn the basics before rushing forward to the higher grades where he could get himself in trouble. I'm old enough to have started climbing before there were many climbing walls, so you learnt climbing by climbing trad, which meant most people progressed much more slowly through the grades, learning this stuff as you go and becoming really solid on the routes. My son can second me up E1/2 outdoors without too much trouble right now but he has no "trad craft" at all. I'll make him watch all of these as they come out! This is a great idea for a series, Dave, good work!

[xalingding]

You read my mind, I’m in exactly the same position as you were, strong ish boulderer, love trad but I feel like I’m soloing so I struggle to do anything past about HVS. Can’t wait to see the next video!!

[BrunoAxhausen]

Love it Dave! With that kind of dedication to setting up your camera (and getting down again to retrieve it after every shot) you can do a collab survivorman episode with Les Stroud!! 🤘🏻😆🤘🏻

[GrantTyrer]

I am at the point of wanting to start leading on trad but fear is a major problem. My other issue is that scrambling or at least the scrambling I have done I also found terrifying. Its a strange mix of emotions as I love climbing more than anything but I am constantly trying to manage fear when I am outdoors. Looking forward to the series Dave this is exactly the sort of thing I need.

[limp]

Good too hear from you again Dave, that looks like a fun evening of scrambling indeed.

[mananaurora]

Steep or not, that's some lovely looking rock, Dave.

[ChrisHaileyTrainHardDiveEasy]

Nice one Dave, love your chats. Always some absolute gems to think about 🤙

[simonmurfin]

Looks great. Looking forward to all of these

[justineichler]

Thanks for this! I’m just starting trad climbing. Can’t wait for the next episode.

[BryceU]

Lookin forward to the rest of this series!

[vaoloko]

Very excited about this series! Thx Dave

[germanderspeedwell]

Brilliant idea for a series. Looking forward to the next installment already :)

[VDB]

Perfect timing! Starting a trad course at my local club this month :)

[AlsRides]

Great idea for a series! I've just come back from my first trad trip and definitely feel like I need a few more before I'm comfortable with leading