rydra_wong: stick figure on an indoor climbing wall -- base image taken from the webcomic xkcd (climbing -- xkcd)
rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [community profile] disobey_gravity 2011-05-23 08:51 am (UTC)

Oh, if you geek out on force vectors, you will love this stuff so hard. It's one reason why I always get so excited about bridging problems: get the geometry right, and you can make holds where there are no holds!

I really rec a book called The Self-Coached Climber, which is a fantastic guide to the various strategies of climbing technique and why and how particular moves work (with diagrams!).

It may not be coincidental that John Gill, the guy who was instrumental in establishing bouldering as a sport in its own right, is a maths professor.

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