From RockClimbingTipsWiki
| Rock Climbing Gear Buying Guide |
| The Tao of gear purchases |
| Buying rock boots |
| Basic kit: harness, helmet and belay plate; prussiks, karabiners and other essentials |
| Buying a simple rack |
| Ropes |
| Advanced racks and cams |
| Rock Climbing Guide |
| Tips for beginners |
| How to learn technique |
| Introduction to cracks |
| Jamming |
| The centre of gravity |
| Manipulating your centre of gravity: Flagging |
| Switching feet - why and how |
| Pushing on holds to shift your weight around |
| Using the outside of your feet |
| Twist-locking |
| Basic overhang technique |
| Cross-hooking: more manipulation of the centre of gravity |
| More balance techniques for overhangs |
| Egyptians: advanced overhang technique |
| Chimneys - basic ways of ascending a chimney |
| Off-widths |
| Dynos |
| The Back-step |
| Laybacks |
| Other |
| Climbing links |
| Contributor's corner |
| Teaching philosophy |
| Recent Changes |
| Random Page |
Welcome to the new site!
Welcome to the new, revamped, wikified climbing.tropic.org.uk!
What's all that about then?
Well, since 1999 climbing.tropic has been the web's most extensive climbing tips site. Unfortunately the original author hasn't had time to contribute new material in a long time, and the site could do with some! So what we're hoping is that some of you steady flow of visitors will help us all out. Please come here and learn how to climb - improve your technique, get up that overhang, crack or chimney - just like you did before. But if you can spare a few moments beyond that, we'd love it if you could contribute a bit and (as with the great outdoors) leave the site better than you found it.
All edits are welcome, from rephrasing clumsy paragraphs and improving layouts through to massive new sections on advanced techniques, gear, ropework or anything else - whatever you want really. It's up to you. For more details on how to get involved, check out our contributor's corner.
Otherwise, just start browsing the links on the right hand side.
Have a lot of fun!
Mountains of the Mind
To get the new wiki going I've decided to write about climbing psychology. I'm excited to explore this as climbing.tropic has never touched on it before, so click here for the article.
Meanwhile, all of the old content is still here for your viewing pleasure, and has already seen some edits by new contributors...
Climbing Guide: tips for beginners, how to learn technique, introduction to cracks, jamming, the centre of gravity, manipulating your centre of gravity by flagging, switching feet, pushing on holds to shift your weight around, using the outside of your feet, twist-locking, basic overhang technique, cross-hooking, more balance techniques for overhangs, Egyptians, chimneys, off-widths, dynos, the back-step, laybacks.
Climbing Gear Guide: the Tao of gear purchases, buying rock boots, a harness, helmet and belay plate, prussiks, karabiners and other essentials, a simple rack, ropes, more advanced racks and cams.
Other: climbing links, contributor's corner, our teaching philosophy, recent changes, and last but not least, random page :-)
Hook up with us on Facebook
Climbing.tropic now has a facebook group, so if you're that way inclined, come and join us here.
