The Tension Technique That Makes your Project Feel Soft (Anchoring)

Where my Board Climbers or steep angle climbers at!?!? Did you like this? Then you'll love my FREE EBook “5 Key Principles of Climbing Training.” You'll learn how to continuously improve your climbing without plateaus, guesswork or burnout! Download HERE: https://www.paradigmclimbing.com/trai... Link to join the Discord for FREE: p / discord   / discord   Anyway; ever release a foot on a steep climb and immediately get violently swung off the wall? Yeah… that’s what we’re fixing today. In this video I break down a technique I call Anchoring; a simple way to lock your body over a foothold so releasing a trailing leg doesn’t rip you off the wall. This happens all the time on steep climbing: You lift a foot → the leg swings → your hips get pulled out → your fingers suddenly take a huge spike in load. Best case you barely hang on and burn unnecessary energy. Worst case you get pathetically ejected. Anchoring solves this by turning your body into a tight, stable system centered over a foothold so that swing forces get absorbed by tension instead of peeling you off the wall. The key ideas are simple: • Move your hips as close as possible to the anchor foothold • Engage your legs, glutes, core, and lats to lock your body down • Release the trailing foot smoothly and quickly When you do this correctly, the momentum from the trailing leg has nowhere to travel. Instead of swinging off, you stay stable, controlled, and ready for the next move. This is one of those subtle skills that dramatically improves steep climbing efficiency, protects your fingers from unnecessary load, and keeps your body in position for the next move. If you want to practice it, set up a foothold on a steep wall, climb a few moves above it, then place your other foot far away so releasing it would normally cause a swing. Lock over the anchor foot and practice releasing the trailing foot smoothly. Start easy… then immediately make it way too hard. Because climbers. Ya know?