{"id":1421,"date":"2014-03-08T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T08:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2020-08-06T00:38:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:38:07","slug":"video-resources-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/08\/video-resources-climbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Some video resources for climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to Saturday's beginner climbing day, I thought I'd post some good video links for new climbers to watch and reference. The \"Rock Climbing Basics\" series is courtesy of Climbing Magazine, Wild Country and Red Chilli.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X-GxrubaikI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The belay method taught in this next video is the \"cross under and slide\" or 4 step method, which is a little different to the \"shuffle\" or 5 step method which is often taught by us and in Australia. They both work fine - the important thing is to reset your brake hand without letting go of the rope!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i9Dv2HT2He8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The poor gear guys are often disappointed to see ropes returned to the shed poorly coiled...so next time take a few minutes to learn how to do it, and save the trip leaders and gear guys some hassle!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XxSRS1vFRKQ?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For people starting to build their leading skills, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.answers.com\/how-to-clip-a-rope-as-a-leading-climber-255978544\">here's a video showing a good method of clipping quickdraws<\/a>. (The Rock Climbing Basics series also has a video).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, for people starting to try the more overhanging routes at the Ledge, here's an excellent video on steep climbing technique.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Usee0F_Ya98?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to Saturday&#8217;s beginner climbing day, I thought I&#8217;d post some good video links for new climbers to &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/08\/video-resources-climbing\/\" aria-label=\"Some video resources for climbing\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,34],"tags":[40,35,36,39,37,38],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climbing","category-training","tag-belaying","tag-climbing-2","tag-instruction","tag-knots","tag-technique","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}