How to climb an E9 Slab 🧗🏽‍♀️ 8 techniques from 'the Walk of Life' 

If she was a route setter that would make her an evil slab wizard

Uh oh... this is GREAT foreshadowing for my next video hehehe (I set Hangar 18 Oranges hardest slab...)

😂 Honestly lots of the power comes thru the perfectly matched cute nails tho 💅🏽

Lost forever to the dark side.

hahaha YES! And for the brits, I believe thumbdercut is another word for it haha

ditto! these breakdown videos are GREAT!

hahaha omg sounds like an ace day!

OMG this makes me so happy haha! All these moves are so rewarding when they work on slabs (or vert)!!

​@@AnnaHazelnutt I also wanted to share that I've worked with multiple climbing trainers, who've taught me amazing things. Two of them are setters whose vert problems were the first V5s and V6s I projected successfully (still haven't ever sent a V6, but made a lot of progress!). Despite all this, the majority of the standard climbing technique teaching I received seems to have been dude/bro-upper body-dynamic-overhang-pinches/slopers-focused. I'd love to be proven wrong, but it's seemed to me that a lot of lower body, static/delicate, vert/slab, crimpy formal techniques are absent from standard climbing teaching.

I totally agree! It's not that it doesn't exist, but there's definitely a glaring hole in training/ general climbing discourse when it comes to slab and balance technique. Until more recently (and I like to think I'm a small part of this!) slab climbing has been thought of as "less than." Slabs have also traditionally been sandbagged to hell because the strength element is so enigmatic and (in my opinion) a lot of the negative mentality/ sandbag culture around technical climbing can be traced back to sexist undertones. Hopefully I can continue filling this gap a bit! There are legends (from yosemite, cochemo, pedriza, austria, s. africa, etc.) who have embarked on trying to popularize slab well before me, and I'm just tryna push it a bit further ("standing on the shoulders of giants") :)

Thank you!!

Oh yeah! Like a forearm press to help with stability? Good stuff!!!

Yes!! So solid when they work!

When I switch from climbing overhangs to vertical/slab I have to consciously remind myself to start pushing my way up.

woaaaah! I love how this applies to ice climbing. I've only ice climbed once... indoors (of all things!) and so I wouldn't have been able to draw those connections. Thanks for sharing!

It’s totally a legit technique! Love that you love the sexy slab wall haha

Yes! The heel rest is a life saver, especially on multipitches with lotsa slab or where feet just get tired from being stood on haha

Oh hell yes! Love all these examples for palm moves :) And the differentiation for smearing! Thank you! (and yes I've heard the song!)

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

Oh hells yes!!! Stoke is high :)

😂 omg idk if my vids are mainstream but I love it! Thank you for saying that :)

Oh I’m so glad you like all of these climbing channels! Thank you for writing this :) happy holidays!

Oooh! Be careful with it as a full crimp is one of the more injury inducing grips (especially if you haven't used em before!) but have fun testing it out when you're warmed up and maybe on less steep angles to begin with!

Jajajaja siii pero la verdad es q hay q disfrutar el dolor para escalar. Todo 😂🤌🏽

Thank you!! At least for the time being, the movie is the only way to see the whole send!

😂 thumb lyfe

I gave this a thumbs up!

Ahaha that’s what it’s called? Amazing 😂 thank you!

ahhaha omg this is amazing 😂 "What's in my project?" I dig it let me see what I can come up with for Quarryman (seems like enough people seem to like this style vid!)

@@AnnaHazelnutt Yup. For the al gorithem really.

Lots of practice getting comfortable standing on them!! Also a stiffer shoe could help with small edges

Yes true!! And with slate corners haha

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I have big puffy hands now, or at least compared to how delicate and slender they used to be! Old rings no longer fit, but I've accepted my fate hahaa

I like a slightly downturned shoe, but not too much! Flatter shoes work best but depending on the slab, sometimes a slight downturn helps the shoe fit a bit more snuggly on my foot (I have high arches) and let’s me push down on small edges

Type of rock also factors in: shoes one likes for granite slab might be intolerable on sandstone or schist.

ALL! I umbrella’d finger stacks into the full crimp, but maybe I can go more in depth about various crimp positions for a later video as well. I use alllll the techniques

@@AnnaHazelnutt we call them guitar D or pyramid in Czech republic :)

😂 it's always a feel good move. So satisfyingly effficient

@@AnnaHazelnutt Stemming is all about the palm game.

😂 you never know!!!

😂😂 it’s… definitely hard! Probably not e12 😜 but I’ve openly said I believe it’s around 13d R/X so one can interpret an e grade from that 👀