What are your bad habits? Movement, safety, mental, racking etc.

Hi all,

A injury forced an end to my obsessive climbing but after 9 months (!!!) I'm soon to get back to it. Needless to say I can't wait. I realize this will be a good time to correct some bad habits and start "fresh" in a lot of ways, I'm hoping you all can help me brainstorm! What are some habits that you'd like to change?

For me:

• Poor shoulder activation while climbing
• Saggy hips
• Not doing shoulder pre-hab exercises 
• Tying clove hitches without attention to load on spine
• Tying "twisted" munters (belay strand on opposite side as you)
• Not tying figure 8's on a bight dressed first time

khammer wrote:

Hi all,

A injury forced an end to my obsessive climbing but after 9 months (!!!) I'm soon to get back to it. Needless to say I can't wait. I realize this will be a good time to correct some bad habits and start "fresh" in a lot of ways, I'm hoping you all can help me brainstorm! What are some habits that you'd like to change?

For me:

• Poor shoulder activation while climbing
• Saggy hips
• Not doing shoulder pre-hab exercises 
• Tying clove hitches without attention to load on spine
• Tying "twisted" munters (belay strand on opposite side as you)
• Not tying figure 8's on a bight dressed first time

I don´t know what any of those are so I´ll just worry about smoking, drinking and lusting over girls.

Not warming up. Its hard to do when you are out at the crag or boulders.

Edit: I'm confused about the twisted munters. I've never heard of that and it flips depending on if you are feeding or pulling slack. Whats the correct way?

Looking at MP on rainy days or work days that I know I can't climb outside. It does wonders for my productivity...

Drinking heavily the night before a long approach

Matt Bentley wrote:

Looking at MP on rainy days or work days that I know I can't climb outside. It does wonders for my productivity...

Vaughn wrote:

 I'm confused about the twisted munters. I've never heard of that and it flips depending on if you are feeding or pulling slack. Whats the correct way?

That's correct. I'm talking about a very nit-picky thing where you put the belay strand of your munter (whether raising or lowering) to be closest to you, not on the other side of the load strand. This is a super tiny distinction and hard to describe I wouldn't worry about it haha

1.  Pulling too hard or otherwise exerting way more strength than necessary when scared and/or pumped out
2.  Climbing more straight armed which easy for me a super easy stuff but it tends to go out the window on harder stuff
3. Quit making excuses like I'm too short, or too tired, or other shit like that. Better to say nothing than to make excuses.