Lattice Training Podcast

Bouldering: Top 10 Projecting Strategies for beginners and intermediate climbers

Oct 15, 2022

17:36

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Take care of your skin to prevent injuries and maximize your bouldering progress.

Utilize ladders or ropes to access different positions on your project and assess its difficulty.

Deep dives

Do not waste any skin

The podcast emphasizes the importance of taking care of your skin when bouldering. Thrashing around on the rock can quickly damage your skin, limiting the number of attempts and slowing down your progression. Maintaining healthy skin is crucial for being successful and enjoying the projecting process.

Introduction

2min

How to Project for Bouldering

3min

How to Use a Power Spotter to Find the Right Position for Your Rope

2min

How to Climb to Your Limits

3min

The Importance of Warming Up for Bouldering Projects

3min

Tips for Beginners and Intermediate Climbers

3min

Beginner and Intermediate Projecting Strategies for Boulders

2min

If you’re new to boulder projecting or even reasonably experienced, then this episode is for you! In today’s recording, we have Tom Randall giving his experience and advice on how to increase the chances of a successful tick this season, via his ‘Top 10’ strategies.

Each of these approaches can be used in almost any situation and when you find ways to combine many of them on the same day, then you’re really winning! Projecting is about bringing all of your hard-won training improvements to the table and utilising them via the right strategies and tactics to achieve your goals. Like many approaches in climbing, these can be refined and learnt over the years, so get started now to improve your own journey.

Tom’s Top 10 Strategies:

Skin management
Ladders, pad stacks and top ropes
Learning weird positions and rests
Who’s beta is best?
Power spotting
Replica work at home
Warm ups and flexibility
Visualisation on dynamic moves
Multiple shoe options
Not starting at the start…

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

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Lattice Training Podcast

Bouldering: Top 10 Projecting Strategies for beginners and intermediate climbers

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Do not waste any skin

Use ladders or ropes for better positioning

Learn extreme positions and use power spotting

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts