Paige Claassen – Precision Footwork

If you want to climb harder grades with less fatigue, you need to improve your feet. The 7-week online course was created by Climbing Magazine and pro climber Paige Claassen, and focuses on one of the most important aspects of rock climbing. Don’t be a climber who’s so focused on strength in the upper body that you neglect the legs. To send your best, learn to power your movement from your toes up through your legs and core.

One of the best ways to progress is to improve footwork. In this online course, pro climber, footwork specialist, and master technician Paige Claassen will teach you how to up your game; she will also explore why it is important, and give you specific tips and drills to incorporate into your training program. If you skitter and skate as you struggle to find footholds, or if you fail to integrate foot moves into your sequence, this course is for you.

Syllabus:

• How improving footwork has helped Paige’s climbing
• At which point in her career she realized the importance of footwork
• Why she addressed it
• Specific gains she saw as a result of the footwork focus
  

Good footwork is important.

• Why is footwork so important?
• Crucial component of integrated beta
  • Pull harder moves using less strength
  • Efficiency & energy conservation
  • Eliminate “reachy” moves
  • Injury prevention
  • Preserve your climbing shoes
• Why is footwork often neglected?
• Homework

Analyzing your feet.

• What does it mean to have good footwork?
• What does it mean to have bad footwork?
• Self-Analysis
• Homework

Dialing in shoes.

• Anatomy of a Climbing Shoe
• Proper Fit
• How tightly to size shoes based on goals and intended usage
• Shoe break-in tips and tricks
• Consider if your objective requires specific foot techniques
  • Toe hooking, need toe rubber
  • Heel hooking, need a well-fitting heel, might be narrow or ball shape
• Homework

Body position can be improved.

• Analyze where footholds are in comparison to your body and your desired direction of travel
  • Feet under body = move up
  • Feet to the sides = move laterally
• Turn outer hip into the wall and stand taller (outside edge, drop-knee)
• Pull center of gravity over foot (heel hook, toe grip)
• Homework

Honing techniques.

• Edging (inside and outside)
• Heel hook (and outside heel hook)
• Toe hook
• Drop-knee
• Flag (inside vs. outside)
• Smear
• Stemming
• Match
• Foot cam
• Bicycle (and reverse bicycle)
• Kneebar
• Toe drag
• Pogoing/Moon kick
• Homework

Applying new skills

• Quiet feet = accurate foot placements
• Repetition
  • Traversing with only smears
  • Toe hooking up the Moonboard/systems wall/corner
  • Choose technique you want to practice and repeat it for an entire route
• Roof hangs
• Choose technical routes
• Ankle weights
• Hovering feet/lockoffs for feet
• First foot placement
• Observe others
• No-hands climbing
• Other exercises to practice
• Homework

The supplemental exercises are called the core exercises.

• Strong core = control over feet
• 5–10 core exercises for better footwork
• Strengthening toes/arches
• Strong hands/fingers allow you to focus on feet
• Homework

There is a course wrap-up.

• How to apply the concepts
• Improving footwork is a lifelong endeavor

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