You're climbing inside a walled-up triangular shape and have to brace your back against the wall behind you so you can 'walk' up the wall in front!
I LOVE THAT. It's called "chimneying" or "back-and-foot-ing". One of my favourite techniques ever, and once you know it, you'll find you can apply it in a lot of situations where you're climbing between two walls or in a corner of some kind.
It's a sub-category of "bridging" (or "stemming" in the US), which covers pretty much anything where you're using counter-pressure to support yourself across a gap -- so that can mean back-and-foot, or having a foot on each wall, or having your hands on one wall and your feet on the other. It's marvellous because you can use the wall itself as a hold, and also often get yourself a rest: bridging positions are often very stable without much effort. *g*
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Date: 2010-10-05 08:51 am (UTC)I LOVE THAT. It's called "chimneying" or "back-and-foot-ing". One of my favourite techniques ever, and once you know it, you'll find you can apply it in a lot of situations where you're climbing between two walls or in a corner of some kind.
It's a sub-category of "bridging" (or "stemming" in the US), which covers pretty much anything where you're using counter-pressure to support yourself across a gap -- so that can mean back-and-foot, or having a foot on each wall, or having your hands on one wall and your feet on the other. It's marvellous because you can use the wall itself as a hold, and also often get yourself a rest: bridging positions are often very stable without much effort. *g*