What up? What up? Aaaaaaaaaaah! What's up, dudes? We're doing another true tour today, what are we doing? So today we're gonna be doing a video about the basics of body positioning, maybe a bit of extra like, pizzaz, slash on the bits of technique for any of you in there as well. For good measure! Cool! Let's do it. Let's do it! Are you excited about today? Very. Very exciting. Ok cool. We're gonna start off with Step 1, and be as good as what that is. A good way of sort of thinking about all of climbing, I guess, is, or at least from the kind of perspective of body positioning, is you're trying to move from a position of balance to another position of balance. So you want to be in balance as much as the time is as possible. Very zen. First, maybe we'll establish what a good position of balance is, and then we'll sort of move onto transitioning from one position of balance to another. So now we're going to cover, like, keeping a wide base, which will always make you more stable, really. A good way to think about that is, consider yourself as like a tripod. If you have the legs of a tripod right next to each other, you're going to be really out of balance. If they're really far apart, you're really stable. Same thing applies in the wall. You want your legs performance as wide a part as you can possibly get them. So in your case, that's about half a meter. Yeah, half a man. That'll just make you more stable. And you won't be swinging around and flailing all over the place. Step number two. We just showed you a point of balance, and now we're going to show you how to get from one point of balance to the other. Hopefully using a little momentum and weight shifting. We've attached this nice bright green chalk bag with a bit of weight in it to my bone. And it's going to give them a really clear idea of where my center of mass is. So you can see it shifting from place to place. However, the weight inside of it is liquid chalk. So there's chalk and chalk. There's chalk exception up in this. Yeah. Say you've just moved one foot up higher onto another foot hold. There's a few different ways you can maybe then transition your weight from the lower foot hold to the higher foot hold. The less good way would be to sort of use your arms and pull yourself up towards the higher holds. A better way to do it would be to use your hips to shift the core of your body on top of the higher foot hold, and then stand up using a big, strong, musly legs instead of your arms. And we're doing that because it's more efficient. Go. Absolutely. So this transition of your center of mass from being over one foot hold to another, you can pull that a rock over as you're rocking your weight over a foot hold. When you're moving sideways, so when you're traversing either right or left, you're generally almost always you want to try and focus on moving your feet before your arms. You don't want to end up in a position where your arms are way further over to the left or way further over to the right than your feet are. You just want to go full crowd. Yeah, pretty much. Just shuffling around with your foot, doing out with a wide base. Crabby, crabby, crabby. So I've heard about a term called bandoring. Can you tell me what that is? Yes, I can. Yes, I can. A bandor is when your center of mass is too far to the left or the right. And as a result, you swing off the wall. You cut off the wall just like a bandor. It has to be too far left to the right of where you're fearing contact. So your feet are also too close together. You don't have a wide base. Yeah, normally leads to having not a wide base, and having having your seven of mass two foot and so on. Let's back in my good side. Yeah, good, you good side. Yeah, you good, my good side. That's my ball, that's my ball. I've all these balls. I think this is the way to first video I'm shaping. Yeah, yeah. So that guy will be like, I'm so instead. I don't. Third is, we're going to dumb it on the overhang now. I'm going to show you how you want to twist your hips on the overhang, and you really want to keep your arms feel a little times. It's more important on the overhang because the overhang requires a lot of energy to keep you up there. So you want to be more efficient on the overhang. Do a diagonal climbing, largely, is it allows you to climb on the same overhang with straight arms to avoid muscling your way up things using your big biceps. You don't want to be doing that in mediums. You want to be taking the back of your legs, you're using your hips to drive your body up the wall without pulling with your bice. Don't ever jow with your hips in the air. Hey. Thank you. Excellent. Excellent, bad climbing. So yeah. I think I can climb really bad on demand. It's like 80% to 90% of the time. You kind of want to be finding positions with three points of contact where you can hover your hand over the next hand hold for a couple seconds before you grab onto it and allow yourself to use it as sport. That will really force you to find solid, balanced foot positions and hand positions. So that's a good little exercise to play with. What you'll find is if you're climbing efficiently on an overhead you'll tend to make quite a lot more foot movements than you would if you were climbing inefficient. So expect a lot of foot swaps, step throos and stuff like that. Yeah. It's all about fancy feet. Fancy silent feet. It's a hundred feet. Cool. So we had a pretty good video today. I think it was a bit of a weird one because body positioning is such a big part of climbing. It's quite hard to keep it really basic. But we tried our best. Hopefully this was a very basic but we're doing more advanced stuff in the future. We just want to say take our advice to the pinch of salt. These are really good climber. I'm a very average climber. But you don't want to be climbing alcatabagas ever before with this advice. Let me use a little bit of it. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully this will help out some of your first-time climbers for you not first-time climbers. We'll help you out in the future. Who's in 78? So yeah, if you haven't already checked out our previous tutorial on foot placement, definitely check that out. And also just remember to like, subscribe, comment, all that jazz. Woo! See you in a bit. Peace.