A COMPLETE Guide to CLIMBING FOOTWORK TECHNIQUES 

The quality of this video is incredible, love all the tips and insights. Cool change of pace from the training series! Hoping to see you guys climb in Montreal in 2024 :)

they kicked me out of my climbing gym because i was edging.... so what the hell.

No talking, just pure information 👍. Love the short format

This is genuinely the best technique guide I’ve ever watched. Clear and concise, and includes a lot of moves I don’t see in other videos. Great video!

The information density is terrific!

Awesome, concise video! Where I come from, we call the “moon jump” a “pogo”

This is a very solid video! Super easy to understand and not to long/boring. Thank you!

This is the exact video I needed. Thank you for doing all the work of digesting and categorizing the footwork techniques you've learned along the way. Can't wait to ask, "what climbing skill is next" when I am confident with all the moves here!

Great training, so appreciated.

This video was SO helpful. Thanks!

Thank youuuu very comprehensive

wow, that's really really helpful, thank u!!

You’re so smooth. Great video straight to the point 😊

This was helpful, thank you

Ty for this video!

Great video. I hope evolv sponsors yall with all those zoom ins 😂

Your muscles are incredible!!

Well made and informative! Thanks!! Want moreeee!!!!

Substantive, clear, fun, ordered. Good work. And very pleasant to watch in terms of your athletic aesthetics 💙

Ty great vid🎉

What an AMAZING video!!! SO useful!!!! Absolutely in love!

Deserves more views! Excellent quality info and editing.

0:10 the edging technique is paramount.

Awsome video!

Super well filmed and explained. Thank you for making these

This is gold

Straight to the point, learned a lot from this, thank you :) I hope you'll make similar videos in the future

Great vídeo! This information is só essential! Congratulation!

Substantive, clear, fun, ordered. Good work. And very pleasant to watch in terms of your athletic aesthetics

Flowy, fun, easy to understand. Damn ,well put togeter guide.

Thanks!

Good content! The heel hook is accurate. I myself made that mistake.

Really helpful and fun video.

Best vid I’ve seen

Great video! More tip videos please!

if alpine knee is a thing, is whaling out then called alpine tummy? great video! really nice demos for every move :) also love the zoom-in-transition, are you sponsored by evolv?

awesome

Fantastic video. No one has told me to point my toe downwards while heel hooking in a year and a half of climbing.

That's a really good tutorial! Concise and efficient, and I like the big titles on the bottom left. Would be nice to have timestamps for each individual move in case I want to refer back to this video later!

What an inspiring vid! Now I’m thinking of all the moves I’ve learned over the years. Some other advanced foot work moves I thought of! - The Bicycle: one foot is in a toe hook position, the other foot is on the other side of the same hold or an opposing hold pressing down to essentially squeeze the hold. Super useful on cave and overhang. Figure 4/9: when you feed your leg through a locked off arm. It’s a classic ice climber move that has been adapted to other forms of climbing. Something I’ve been seeing more in comp climbs lately is the straddle. Similar to the move in aerial silks, you place a leg over a larger hold for a resting/hands free position. Feels similar to a knee bar but only requires one big hold that you can essentially rest a leg on. Step Up Dyno: a type of jump where you use your momentum to step up to a higher foothold, allowing you to jump even higher. It is most often a move where you are required to match one foot to your hands, as there are no other foothold to use. The most famous use of this is the Tamoa Skip in speed climbing. Finally one of my favorites from comp climbing… a step through dyno: it’s a continuation of the moon kick in which after your moon kicking foot lands, you keep your momentum to step through with your other foot. Very coordination heavy. Great video! Super informative.

Awesome video! Definitely sharing with people. In case in comes up in the future, I think a counter-balancing leg in an overhang is worth mentioing apart from flagging. Counter balance to the left, to the right, or towards your other foot to shift weight away from your hand.

god,thanks you so much for that video !

nice!

Really awesome video! Just what I was looking for. Do you have any plans to make a similar video for how to climb different hold types or more hand/arm based techniques?

BRAVO! HONOM SKA VI HA!!!!!!!!!

Best video ever

10 seconds in and we are already eding LMAO. in all seriousness tho good video :)

great info and you are strong aFFFFFF

Wow what a great, refreshing and no non-sense video. I’m a beginner and this was marvellous. Is there one for holds? Some holds are so hard that I wonder what’s the magic to keep stable

Loved the tips and the red pants🤗

I stuck my first ever pogo jump (moon kick) thanks to this video!

If I'll ever start climbing I'll return to this video!

Can't forget the smedge!

If a climb has a full foot I’m all in on that. Soft shoes for life bb

For the heels down technique on volumes, isn't it less about maximizing surface area, and more about applying correct directional force? Because with heels up, you apply force almost directly downwards, essentially increasing the chance of slipping, because optimally, the force is 90 degrees against the volume. So by pushing your heels downwards, it ensures that your force is forwards, against the volume, rather than downwards? I might be wrong, but would love to hear your thoughts!

There you go kids, campusing is an expert move. love it and deal with it

How is this video so good with so little attention

So informative! What's the name of the background music?

Beginner question here: when doing foot swap, the majority of the weight shall be supported by the hands or not? Great video! At the end "foot-less" can be also called "campus move".

I will never every be flexible enough to do that heel hook lol

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Awesome work, this covers so much so clearly! A couple of thoughts about footwork I've learned recently and didn't see here: For really bad/small feet, sometimes it's useful to twist/cam them into position by first placing the toe rubber "too far" onto the wall/volume in more of a smearing position with the hold under the foot rather than right under the toe. Then twist and stand up to really dig the toe or edge in at the same time you weight it. This seems particular effective for tiny jibs screwed onto notex. I think it forces the toe/edge rubber to compress a bit and makes terrible jibs a bit less bad. Not sure it was covered as its own thing, but the toe-smear is also a super useful variant of a toe hook - for example bicycling a bad volume on slab with one bad foot above and a toe smear underneath can give just enough leverage or compression to stand on it.

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Nice! Three more to add: The scraping toehook (no idea what it's called). On slab for some sensitive moves you will want the foot that is not on the hold to point straight down, keeping the upside of the foot flush against the wall can get you closer to the wall and let you modulate with the upper rubber. Then there is standing up on the heel, another slab move. Not a heelhook, you just put the heel on the hold and stand up on that instead of the toe. Can be a hack if you are not flexible enough to put the toe on a hold! Then there is the toe-knee cam, a nice friction slab move where you lean forward, put your knees against the wall to get some rest - perhaos not much for progression, more for resting. I think those are all intermediate, not advanced moves!

I had an accident and since then my left knee can't bend more than 100Degree, this greatly decreased my ability to climb and I dropped a few levels, I hope with these tips I can balance that out step by step with more technique

Love this video! one of the only places I've seen address foot and leg positioning in dynamic movements. What brand of leggings is she wearing? I like the canadian flag in the back

I like to call the alpine knee a "tactical knee"

I came for the feet- ehm I mean footwork. Anyways I was not disappointed.

I would have loved to see a figure 4 no hands rest!

Never climbed, but I'm a master of edging.

My foot work stinks, thanks for the tips!

As a beginner, drop knee is ma fav one:) Is this video a waisted opportunity for shoe advertising?😂

only one thing to add. when you mantle try to turn the heel sideways so your foot wont stand in the way when you pull ypurself over the edge...

In australia we eat chips. So i got hungry. Otherwise a great video

Thank you! Interesting choice to showcase footwork on chips with a very soft shoe - I hope it's sponsored. Any particular reason you switched from your usual? Was it for the smearing? The kick is also known as pancho if I am not mistaken? I see people doing heel hooks also downward but to the side combined. Is it recommended for a certain instance ?

I can say I have never inside flagged in my life

the footwork technique is what?!

Toe cams are no where near V11 status. Someone who only has sent V3 can learn how to to cam. That being said, this tech is almost never necessary [in my gym].

What she calls "Alpine Knee," my friends and I call "The Knee of Shame."

What's the brand of the leggings? They look great

The only thing I learned here is that evolv copied la sportiva.

I prefer it foot-less... 😜 .

edging????!!!!🤨

Your muscles are incredible!!

Thanks!