Hip flexibility in particular is a huge advantage, when you're trying to get a foot onto a hold that's high up in relation to your body, or when you're bridging across a wide gap.
My hip flexibility's pretty good now and it means there are certain bouldering problems that are drastically easier for me than for less flexible people.
Should flexibility doesn't seem to confer much of a direct advantage in climbing itself, at least so far as I've noticed, but it's really important to keep the shoulders mobile and open so they don't round and get strained -- I spend a lot of time on shoulder-opening poses after I've been climbing.
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Date: 2010-09-10 06:02 pm (UTC)Hip flexibility in particular is a huge advantage, when you're trying to get a foot onto a hold that's high up in relation to your body, or when you're bridging across a wide gap.
My hip flexibility's pretty good now and it means there are certain bouldering problems that are drastically easier for me than for less flexible people.
Should flexibility doesn't seem to confer much of a direct advantage in climbing itself, at least so far as I've noticed, but it's really important to keep the shoulders mobile and open so they don't round and get strained -- I spend a lot of time on shoulder-opening poses after I've been climbing.