ShareTo climb with your inner child:
“If you look at little kids, they almost all know how to climb, intuitively, really well. Then as you get older, if you don’t grow up climbing, [your] body forgets that a little bit. [So] you can certainly learn from watching kids. And as climbing has developed as a sport and people started climbing at younger ages, climbing has progressed tremendously. And a lot of that has been from the older generations learning from the younger generations. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, the movements were all very precise and static ... kind of robotic. And then kids started climbing and started climbing like monkeys, with their feet swinging around and really dynamic. And all of the old-school guys said: ‘Well, this is crazy! It’s inefficient, they’re wasting all their energy.’
But actually, that ends up being a really good way to climb. That’s how the higher edge is being pushed: kid style, climbing like a monkey.”
— ClimbMax manager and climbing coach David Sharratt
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