G-String Climbing Grips

Woodchuck ATC wrote:Craig: I got my email with Priority mail confirmation early this AM. Great ! I bet they even get here by Friday this week! Will be crimping and pulling by Sat afternoon! Thanks for the speedy delivery service.

Got my confirmation this morning as well. Very excited.

Am I the only one who would rather not have his finger board move around? Seem dangerous to me.

JohnWesely wrote:Am I the only one who would rather not have his finger board move around? Seem dangerous to me.

I see these more similar to RockRings kind of device, except with alot more variety. Yes, they will move some but I don't plan on lunges or swinging moves, just dead body hangs with or without feet/knees on the ground. I never liked having a board nailed up at one specific height very much. I can change height and angle with these for alot more variety.

Woodchuck ATC wrote: Yes, they will move some but I don't plan on lunges or swinging moves, just dead body hangs with or without feet/knees on the ground. I never liked having a board nailed up at one specific height very much. I can change height and angle with these for alot more variety.

Help me understand you. How does changing the height of your hangboard/rock rings/"g-strings" provide more "variety"?

Personally, I absolutely DO NOT want the device I'm hanging from to move at all. It's already problematic enough to pull into a weighted hang on the hangboard without introducing slight body swing when your feet leave the ground. I really fine tune my stepping aid (stack of boards on the ground) so that I can start the hang at exactly the right position (which varies relative to which hold is used and where the hold is on the hangboard, thus the step-boards) to avoid ANY bodyswing. And that's with a rigid mounted board. It would be completely impossible with these devices.

I think from a design standpoint, these are very innovative to get as much variety in grip position out of a small device as they do. They look well-made, aesthetic. But I don't see them as a valuable training tool for anyone beyond the very early stages of training...for finger strength anyway. If you are into doing pullups, or training shoulder girdle stability type things similar to rings exercises, they may be great. But I don't do pullups, and haven't for many years, they're just a ticket to elbow problems but that's a different debate. For fingers/grip strength, a hangboard is going to be a vastly superior apparatus.

Am I missing something? All I see is a big-textured-ledge hold (bottom) and a medium-textured-round-bar hold (top). Also maybe small-painful-looking-textured-round hold (bottom inside)? It's not clear from the picture if that last one is a hold or how you get to it.

Ring style grips and fingerboards are two different training devices. Each has their own advantage and disadvantage.

Tom: The secret to the versatility of these grips is in the cord configurations. You can manipulate the cords to turn the grip at any angle.

The allows you to offset the holds for lock-offs as well.

I've found several distinct grip positions with these. But really each one can be manipulated to be easier or harder.

Take a look at their website.

SICgrips wrote:Hi Peter, I've sent you an email with the USPS tracking information. My experience is that this time of year with international First Class shipping things can go really slow. Hopefully you'll get it within 6-10 working days however, things have taken as long as 3 weeks. :-( Unfortunately that is out of our hands. Hope it arrives in a timely fashion. Craig

You're great!

Help me understand you. How does changing the height of your hangboard/rock rings/"g-strings" provide more "variety"?

I plan on setting these high to hang from with body weight, AND to lower them so I can hang and pull while resting body weight on my heels, legs at a low angle. Kind of simulate the angle I"d be hanging at, on steep overhanging route coming out of the Madness Cave. I'm sure I'll think up or experiment with more ideas when the time comes.

BULLETIN: Open your new Dec-Feb DPM magazine, just arrived today, to pg. 33 'booty review'. A nice half page review of g-strings device with pic. " For the size, weight, diversity of grip positions, and the flexibility of mounting, there isn't a better device on the market". I think that covers it all. Nice coverage.

Got 'em!!! Arrived today priority mail. Now I can pull g-grip moves all holiday long. Thanks!!! Pinch and edge sloper efforts shown here....

pinch hold

fat edge sloper

Cool, glad you got 'm and lik'm. Don't want to spam the list but if anyone has questions, they can email me off list (or ask some of the users on list! :-)

Taking these over to relatives, nephews, etc. for holiday fun tomorrow. Too cold to go out and play football so we will have grip pull-up contests in the basement instead !!!

They arrived yesterday! Thank you.
Looking really great, good work, they just have to be hung up, but this will be made today.

Happy new year to all of you!

Glad that you finally got them. The delay must have been due to the holidays. Hope you enjoy and benefit from them.

Craig

I would think the fact that they may move a little would help strengthen stabilizer muscles, much like rock rings do. Am I wrong on this one? I thought that was one main difference between a hang board and rock rings

I'm using my feet on some slanted footholds as I use the g-strings. Less swing than a rock ring, but still not the same as a pull up on a workout board. Love the variability of the grips, and I'm placing a few quick draws up high for holding on, reaching and clipping too. Total workout!

Hmm….those look kinda nifty.

pooler wrote:they may move a little would help strengthen stabilizer muscles, much like rock rings do.

BINGO!

These look awesome!

One thing on the web site has me puzzled. It includes undercling among the 7 potential positions. I'm having a hard time envisioning how these would work as an undercling. Sure, you could mount the chords low on a wall but I can't picture a statically placed undercling.

Not that it diminishes the coolness of these in any significant way but I'm curious. Can anyone else picture how that would work?

By grabbing the holds with your thumbs pointing out (like a chin-up position) you can work some of the muscles used in an undercling position even though you're pulling down. This orientation of your hands allows you to work a different subset of muscles than when you are in a normal face climb position (thumbs point toward each other)

To better approximate an undercling, you need to involve the feet and lower back by pressing/pushing in the opposite direction that the hands/arms are pulling.

If the grips are hung in a door or hall way, it's possible to press your feet (barefoot so you don't mark up the doorway and get a little friction) against the doorway with your hands/arms pulling in the opposite direction.

You can then control the difficulty by which grip position you use and how positive an orientation you set the grips at in relation to the direction you are pulling.

I need to add more photos to that section of the website - a picture or video clip is worth a thousand words... :-)

Depending upon how and where the Gstrings are mounted, you may or may not be able to get your feet involved.

Craig