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30 degree Wall at Burnley. 30-May-2006 At 11:47:16 AM Stuey

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Other good tricks (although these require training buddies and are maybe little advanced):

(1) Hang from a bar and pull your knees up and in to your stomach (like a knee raise), tense your stomach muscles and have a friend try to pull your knees down with you fighting back to hold your knees up. They should use enough force to make to make you fail at around the 10 second mark. This exercise helps generally with body tension and more specifically, it increases the amount of force you can exert on toe hooks (marignal or otherwise) on roofs/steep walls.

(2) Hang from a bar and pull up your legs straight in front (like in a lever). Get 1 friend to hold your back steady. Get another friend to keep trying to throw your legs down as you fight back, trying to keep returning your legs up to the start position. Again, this exercise helps generally with body tension but specifically helps with cutting loose in control (or controlling it when you lose contact unintentionally)and returning your feet to holds on a roof/steep wall.

Guaranteed to make you wince when you cough/laugh/sneeze for about a week after!