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Sport Climbing: The Art of Clipping

American Alpine Institute
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Neil Gresham’s Climbing Masterclass on youtube is pretty darn good. In the following video, Neil works through the essentials of clipping on sport climbs. He looks at several bad ways to attain your clips and then works through the good ways.

Clipping is such a basic thing in sport climbing, or any type of bolted climbing, that it seems intuitive. But it’s not. And knowing how to do it well, will lead to a lot more success…


–Jason D. Martin

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