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Warm up, rest properly (1 day between sessions with good quality sleep and diet), no fingerboard after training, don't overdo training.

@@RPD_ps Yea that sounds like an alright general advice but there's so much more to it, unfortunately.

I'd say if you move (pushing legs) proper way, you load fingers less and risk is much lower. Proper warmup of course.

Check out the channel Always Climbing, he has a good video called: How to prevent injuries climbing

Most common are pulley injuries (namely A2 and A4), finger injuries in general, elbow and shoulder injuries (like SLAP lesion). Beware overtraining in general, listen to your body. Check your range of motion (of the fingers for instance). Good channels to learn about injuries are the "The Climbing Doctor" and "Hoopers Beta".

Totally! Being able to fit comfortably into a box is the first priority of body positioning, and sometimes that involves just one foothold instead of two.

you're a really solid video.

This can be difficult if you have poor range of motion in your ankle, which is why stretching (every day, if you can) is so important for climbing.

And expanding this in general, you want to push perpendicular to the surface you want friction on. So for smears you want your foot high enough so you're pushing into the wall. On volumes, like you say, raising your heels pushes you along the surface of the volume (pushing you off), lowering your heels pushes directly into the volume and you increase friction

Back flagging is a special case, where you stop the barn door with the other leg. More seldom used in steep walls. .

Agreed that a good back flag is a useful and important technique in certain situations. The video was focusing on the 2 changes people can make that address the majority of the scenarios where they struggle with a move.

​@@jonnes__4657 I can see why you view backflags as a special case, but I'd argue that back flagging is not as special of a case as you say, in terms of how rarely we come across this move in climbing. Take for example the plethora of climbs on the Moonboard, Tension board, Kilter board, etc (all overhung indoor terrains, with some boards being adjustable for even steep climbing) where a climber cannot afford to have a primary foot placed contralaterally. The most common example I can think of is, after the free leg has completed its role in maintaining stability, there are a lot of options available. It can then be used as a source of momentum in generating both gentle and explosive pogo movements to reach the next hold, saving time and effort on feet swapping, or it can be immediately placed onto the next desired foothold without necessitating a foot swap. It would be a very impressive feat to see a climber send several advanced board benchmarks (v7+) strictly using contralateral movement, instead of opting for some ipsilateral movements.

​​@@movementforclimbersI realized after re-reading my initial comment that I was giving the impression of focusing too much on backflagging, but I meant to highlight a situation where the crux of their project does not offer any contralateral positions. I think it would benefit struggling climbers to try to learn and familiarize themselves with how to navigate through scenarios where they cannot afford contralateral movements. Ipsilateral positions and movements are inevitable in climbing, and I believe we would be hindering our abilities to climb if the only ipsilateral movement we know is how to backflag to create stability. It's just as important to become familiar with how to move up a wall when we're limited to an ipsilateral position. I think there was a missed opportunity during the hover states segment to briefly demonstrate how both contralateral and ipsilateral movements can achieve the hover state.

​@@JerrafurOscar​this might be true if the video is watched only by complete beginners who never heard of the concept of flagging. For example, I've been climbing for a few months and I'm familiar with and practice all common flagging techniques (and learned them from other videos on this channel too). Still, I wasn't aware of these two hacks.

yup, it is.