How to Tape Your Fingers for Climbing

Wearing tape on the fingers for climbing. Supportive taping is best achieved using a zinc–oxide climbing tape with a rough durable surface and is easily removed following use. The tape is applied in strips that are about 10-13mm wide to allow more control. Here are three how to tape your fingers for climbing.

1. Finger tip protection 

In the event of a cut to the finger tip or the dreaded split, Photo 1 (below) shows a good solution. Firstly attach a single strip of tape from the distal finger joint over the finger tip and secure on the back of the finger. With this strip in place, wind tape down to the first finger joint making sure to overlap the edges of tape to prevent the tape rolling off the finger. 

2. To provide support

Another common use for finger tape is to help provide support. Photo 2 (below) demonstrates the figure-eight technique for supporting the structures around the finger joint especially the annular ligaments that support the tendons of the fingers. Wrap the tape around the lower part of the finger close to the joint line and pass the tape diagonally across the side of the finger. Leaving the top of the joint clear for freedom of movement, continue the tape around the upper part of the finger and then back across the opposite side of the joint finishing with a further turn around the lower finger. 

3. Supporting finger tendons 

Photo 3 (below) shows a more traditional method for supporting the finger tendons. This ring technique is often also used to give support to the annular ligaments by wrapping strips of tape around the individual pads of the finger. Like the figure-eight technique this method offers some support but is perhaps more beneficial in protecting the fingers from abrasion.

Warning - when to use tape!

It is important to be aware that although tape is used for both support and protection it does not provide a treatment for injury. When using tape, movement should be relatively pain free and for this reason tape is best used not as a cure but as an aid to careful return to climbing. With practice most climbers will find their own preferred method of taping. Using tape to manage injury is best accompanied with professional advice. Make sure when taping not to restrict circulation and if the finger becomes red and/or numb the tape is too tight and needs to be removed.

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How to Rock Climbing

How to rock climbing, to do so you would need the ability and knowledge. Necessary knowing the correct way to use a specified set of climbing equipment, unless you are absolutely  master to free climbing. 

This outdoor activity a technical rock climbing on the cliffs with disabilities utilizing either a bulge or faults and fractures, which require special skills.

Basically  a sport extrem that prioritizes flexibility, strength, ingenuity and skill in the use of equipment to get around the cliff itself.

Initially rock climbing is an activity that is adventurous and do not have a clear game rules. But unique, rock climbing has its own code of ethics.

But the development climber activity began to provide another alternative of the elements of the adventure itself, the element of pure sport, or better known as sport climbing. In the sport climbing, the rules are clear and the nature permainanpun increasingly lead to competition among climbers.

With the advent of this new flow, the more diverse these activities are growing. And location of which had been climbing on the cliffs of nature can be moved to the brink / artificial wall that can be assembled.

If you are a beginner, need some practice time to climb, can use a boulder or rock wall. Rock climbing is more dangerous because it is strong in the outdoors.

Here's the video introduction  how to rock climbing, outdoor rock in a relatively easy. This instance he was wearing full climb equipment. There is attached a safety line and karmantel ready to use.

This is how to rock climbing for understanding

Technique for Rock Climbing Anchor

Belay techniques (anchor)
Belay or anchoring is a technique called the installation of safety devices used for the purposes of mooring rope used for belaying, rope or fixed installation (fixed rope) or rope climbing.
In making anchors for rock climbing, keep in mind is the condition of the cliff itself and the type of rock. Anchors are usually made ​​of several safety devices (Artificial Anchors) and natural conditions that exist on the cliffs, such as tree holes or translucent (Natural Anchors).

Rock climbing anchor  is usually made to be disposable, but there are also made for good  on a line of rock and is called Permanent Anchors, a safety device that is used to create a permanent anchor is usually Bolt (climbing spikes).

Natural climbing anchors
Natural fastening made from natural elements such as rock climbing (rock holes or horn) or it could be from the existing trunk ditebing itself. This is a condition of making mooring must withstand the load and not fragile.
Before fastening made sure whether or not it's strong load test should be performed first so sure

Artificial climbing anchors
Sometimes climbing wall does not have a natural moorings. Thus created an artificial anchor. In rock climbing, can use the python and Chock, while the bolt is rarely used because it can undermine the sustainability of the cliff.
Fastening is usually more convincing power. But all this depends on the way to make it, because if not careful it will be possible fastening can be broken.

Bolt climbing anchor
On the cliffs for climbing and are often used is usually already installed lines or installation of anchor bolts. With the bolts in the cliff will be easier and safer for the leader to make a climbing anchor instead of using natural or artificial cliffs. For those pro climber may prefer to use artificial anchor as well as the QuickDraw line.

• Anchor the correct position will prevent the rope from the friction of the stone and makes absolute no loose or broken.

• Check the state of the cliff wall before being installed anchor, by tapping a hammer into the cliff wall. The hollow sound of the echo indicates the brittle rock.

• Anchor is relatively strong and robust nature. Anchor made ​​generally used when there is absolutely no natural anchor for example on a pitch in the middle of the cliff.

Rock Climbing; Single Rope Technique

In a lesson for rock climbing techniques, the main knowledge basic, the rope technique. On professional climbing, rope technique has always been an important basic. You must know to use the Rock Climbing, Mountaineering, and Ice Climbing. Here we will learn about rock climbing singgle rope technique.

The information provided here may be required for anyone who wants to buy the right Climbing Rope.

Single Rope Technique
SRT (single rope technique) all the lovers of outdoors exercise often hear. Basic knowledge ropes for climbing or caving. Single rope technique relatively easy to do and was already famous throughout the world, especially rock climbing.

• Single Rope System is simply the single route and multipitch where protection is in a straight line. Rope technique is very often used in rock climbing sport routes, where the lines are placed in a straight line or other routes, install QuickDraw to anchor with a rope and line. Securing the climber can be placed in a straight line.

• If the protection is not in a straight line, but for example has more of a zigzag pattern, then there will be more "rope drag". Rope drag is the amount of friction the rope causes when running through the Quickdraws/runners/extenders. This friction can be so large, e.g. in a fall, that the protection is being pulled out, causing the system not to be secure anymore.

• For safety reasons you should know that when using a Single Rope Technique, note one can only achieve a maximum abseil of half a rope length. So if you are using a 60-metre rope with a single rope system, then you can only abseil 30 metres.

• All rope manufacturers are obliged by the UIAA  (Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme) to indicate if the rope is suitable for a Single Rope System, Double Rope System, or a Twin Rope System. As a rule of thumb, most Ropes with a thickness of 10-11 mm are Single Ropes.

• Single rope climbing routes are not always easy, there are degrees of its own. Installation path QuickDraw / runner made ​​a zigzag motion to add variety in the climbing

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Rock Climbing Techniques

In the progress of rock climbing has now been established climbing techniques.

This sport is basically a way of putting the body to be stable, thus giving the opportunity to climb a long time and not quickly tired, climbers will go up quickly and safely. Opportunities to move further adding to the height determined by the balance of the body by using a deformed rocks as a foothold and grip in accordance with field conditions encountered.

Hands and foot techniques

Rock climbing in general is highly dependent on the strength of the hand and kaki. Beginners climbers usually tend to trust most of his weight on the hand, with the body close to the surface of the cliff. Habit is caused by the wrong assumption that the function of the hand holding the greater portion of the foot.

Hold:

Best position to put down foot and hands when climbing a cliff. Each defect has a rock cliff with high levels of varying difficulty, the more smooth the surface of the cliff, it will be increasingly difficult to climb.

The ability to choose where the footrest or handrails in rock climbing a major factor in the skill level of a rock climbers

Jamming:

The sechnique is performed  when hands and foot clipped in cracks of rocks, so the exact position more secure.

Chimneying:

Which is to harness the considerable gap in the cliffs as nest width climbing, using hands, back and foot simultaneously

Rock climbing techniques that do not get out of a complete climbing equipment and understand the basic usage. As karmantel rope, runner, figure of 8, carabiners and other non screw.

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