Usually when you are choosing a route, you are looking for the quickest, shortest or easiest. But for some it is too boring, uniform and monotonous. And so they take the most unexpected and most steep route - up on the rocks.
Rock climbing may have once been needed and may have once had no choice option or output to reach a certain point, but him. But today it is not practiced due to the impossibility for another time, but rather because of the adrenaline feeling that creates, for the adventure because of the difficulties and challenges faced by one person. Initially, rock climbing is part of everyday life for climbers and therefore is considered to be related to mountaineering. Subsequently, around the end of the XIX century, it grew and established a fully independent sport. Follows his instant distribution and approval. Began mass development of sport and study of possible sites for practicing it. And they, to the delight of all climbers are countless and this - free gifts of nature. Therefore, in the present rock climbing to keep one of the most popular extreme sports. It is a climbing rock formations - twos, threes or more, with or without equipment, pre-mapped route or not. The risk is not so great - the risk is measured and safety have taken all possible measures by securing a rope, carabiners and other equipment. Over time, this adventure so developed that are created and closed areas - climbing walls and also differentiated manuals, different disciplines, each with specific requirements and varying degrees of danger.
Boulder climbing is climbing on the lower rocks (Boulder) with a height of ten meters without securing rope. It is ideal for beginners, and sometimes it's so addictive that many have started practicing and then basically it.
Lower climbing rock objects leads one wherein rocks are a height of 20 to 100 meters. This is probably the most popular type of climbing that is practiced worldwide. Can be performed by one person or more people as a second.
Traditional classic climbing is climbing truss. For many people it was to be considered a true climbing. Rock climbing with him a whole group or at least two people. One of them is designated as the leader, he is the first one that goes up. After dragging myself one or two lines, but along the way secured means of providing crevices in the rock at regular intervals and hung the rope with carabiners. The second climber provides first by rubbing facility, and once the driver reaches the place, it shall be fixed through more security for him and begins to provide second as you climb up it. For some rocks, particularly those with the highest degree of difficulty, climbers make their pre-study and study the scale and consequently - a pre-established plan route to cross. In its purest version, however, climbing is an activity that does not require quite such activities - just goes climber and climbing.
Big Wall climbing indicates very high walls (over 200 meters). There gear is mandatory and even includes tools to lodge somewhere in the middle of the wall, if necessary.
Ice climbing is done in icing conditions, mainly in frozen waterfalls.
There is a climbing facades of buildings in such artificial walls, sport climbing and sport climbing.
Specific benefits of rock climbing
The good thing about it is burdening the body and develop muscles, if practiced regularly. Proper technique keeps the body physically healthy and toned. Develops dexterity, flexibility and agility, and purely mental, climbing is good exercise in concentration, focus, flexibility and combining mind. Furthermore, somewhat incidentally, climbing off the stress and tension of our minds and leaves us recharged - loaded physically and mentally relaxed.
What you need
For your first climbing you only need to know some skills in sport, desire, zeal, not to give up and self-control to stop time. If you like, you can spend more time learning how to climb safely - from more advanced climbers or as part of a course in climbing (in NSA regularly perform them). Will require obtaining a comfortable climbing shoes, climbing shoes called that are tight shoes with soft rubber and can take advantage of excellent every ledge of the cliff. Maybe you'd like magnesium, which is widely used for dry skin on hands and thus increase traction and better grip with the rock without much danger of leakage. The rest of the equipment is a rope, connectors, tools for securing and helmet.
And rock, of course. Needed most. Fortunately, completely free and usually the best place - in nature.
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