These Climbing Footwork Tips are BASIC but you don't have to be 

It's definitely unintuitive for most of us to focus on our feet during hard moves. Really hoping this take on footwork helps people who don't just want to work on their footwork on warm ups feel empowered to also learn it on their projects. Good luck!

Glad to hear it! I try to spend a lot of time thinking about how to visually present my ideas, so I'm glad that the muscle/joint visuals clicked for you. Definitely planning on reusing that one for some future videos I've got planned.

Haha I've been there. If you're consuming a ton of climbing progression content, then always remember the golden rules: consistency, try hard, and don't get injured

Yep, have plenty of upcoming intermediate/advanced topics in mind :)

Definitely what I'm going for, so I'm glad that it's coming across well. Hope these help with your sesh

Thanks! Also very excited. Still feel new to editing and making videos, but it's been a lot of fun and I have a lot more ideas for the future. If only I had more time haha

That's awesome! Really glad this video can still be useful to people who've seen a bunch of other footwork videos, hope they help :)

Thanks for the continued support :') hope they help!

That's some high praise! Have a lot more ideas so hoping to continue delivering interesting content like this

I always felt like it was hard to know what to focus on when I was trying to learn footwork, so I'm glad the visuals were helpful. It's definitely a process, but it's a great sign that you're already thinking about how you can use your legs.

Lol down climbing takes some practice for sure. I can definitely add it to my backlog or see if I can fit it into one of my upcoming ones

It's actually a merch shirt from @BoulderingBobat back in like 2019, so unfortunately I don't think it's for sale anymore. Hopefully they bring it back though if enough people are interested cause I could use a new one 👀

Thanks for taking the time to write up such a detailed response! I don't really talk about counter balance here because I think that flagging and lever mechanisms are well implemented in climbers (i.e. I purposefully made a video where it was about things i felt even some advanced climbers lack rather than what separates say a beginner and an intermediate), and this video actually serves more of a meta purpose for RU-vid specifically. This video was done prior to the publication of Dave MacLeod's recent videos and was released at a time where the main footwork video trend was to just suggest 'silent feet'. It's more geared at telling people underlying progression principles, not specific technical concepts (for which there are numerous). While I do mention technical concepts, it's more so I can get to the underlying principles. I cannot mention everything in a single video, which is why at the time i felt it would be more valuable to point people to common principles that are often ignored. Varying beta, identifying muscular chains and where yours are failing, and learning to coordinate muscles are not often talked about on climbing youtube, especially as the underlying principles to the tips they're associated with. Though I do plan to make more videos in the future on things you mentioned cause they are definitely important! As for the front flag comment, I think there's a misconception here. Firstly, it's not prescriptive to climb better. It's recommended to vary your beta, which is a huge distinction. I agree that front flags are usually better on easy holds, and despite Dave MacLeod's recent video I don't think that means people shouldn't use them. If anything, I think it only enhances the reason to use them so people can learn the nuance in technique and discover the good and bad positions themselves - which is the entire point of me telling people to vary beta. Secondly, I would actually disagree with your statement that front flags necessarily cause bad habits. In this climb in particular, it was more efficient because it did take weight off my hands rather than add load. You can actually see that my hips are closer to the wall than in the frontal position and that is achieved by creating torque - twisting with the non flagging such that the hip above it goes from a closed to open body position will pull your body into the wall. I think if you're experiencing this 'bow shape' you mentioned when doing front flags, then I'd encourage you to try this torque motion. I'm not saying it'll make front flag usage that much more common, but the whole point of varying beta is to learn more right. Also I actually mention a case in Dave MacLeod's comment section in his front flag video on how you can use torque for traversal like movements for hard crux moves as well to add to the conversation there, hopefully you'll find it an interesting read if you take a look. Again really appreciate your detailed comment. Hopefully I wasn't too longwinded, but I just love talking about climbing technique (and my guess is if you wrote such a detailed comment then you probably do too

@@BetaBoiBrandon :) Hahaha, brilliant! stoked that you saw that video as well. It made me rethink my footwork. Dave has a brilliant breakdown for counterbalance in other videos as well which got me pushing harder already. I will try the front flag with torque since I can't help myself from trying the different beta. Lastly, I totally agree with the importance of reiterating the values to be taken from the general examples. Like why silent feet are good (they make you look - focus - and take a second while you place your toe) and once you combine that with a strong posterior chain, sticky toes, and as you mention rotational torque it becomes ssuuuper powerful. I don't even want to open the wormhole of heel hooks right now, but I also think that cam'ing your heel in with torque and a strong inner thigh isn't spoken about enough - man, movement is so cool! Thanks for the input! Cheers, have a good one.