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2013
Rock Climbing: The Ultimate Guide covers the history of rock climbing in the United States from its origins to the present day, documenting the importance and vitality of the popular sport. The chapters address topics such as the technicalities of the equipment and clothing, training methods, key places and events where the sport takes place, the ...
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Rock Climbing: The Ultimate Guide covers the history of rock climbing in the United States from its origins to the present day, documenting the importance and vitality of the popular sport. The chapters address topics such as the technicalities of the equipment and clothing, training methods, key places and events where the sport takes place, the ...
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Footwear in rock climbing: Current practice
The Foot, 2015Many rock climbers wear ill-fitting and excessively tight footwear during activity. However, there is insufficient evidence of the extent or harms of this practice.To investigate footwear use in rock climbers with a focus on issues surrounding fit.A cross-sectional study with active rock climbers of over one year of experience completing a survey on ...
McHenry, R. D. +3 more
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Climbing heritage: The lines and aesthetics of rock climbing
Anthropology Today, 2021Climbing is an experience born of the interplay of aesthetics and heritage. Nowadays, climbing attracts people in droves, all eager to join the contest between body and rock. In this article, the author addresses the refined social background of climbing.
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Physiology of difficult rock climbing
European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2004The purpose of this review is to explore existing research on the physiological aspects of difficult rock climbing. Findings will be categorized into the areas of an athlete profile and an activity model. An objective here is to describe high-level climbing performance; thus the focus will primarily be on studies that involve performances at the 5.11 ...
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The epidemiology of rock-climbing injuries
British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2007Objectives: To determine the prevalence and nature of rock-climbing injuries, and the factors associated with these injuries. Design: A retrospective cross-sectional study. Setting:
G, Jones, A, Asghar, D J, Llewellyn
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Injuries Associated with Rock Climbing
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 1992This project was supported financially by the University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre Physiotherapy Research Fund. This study was undertaken to understand the clinical presentation of injured rock climbers as well as possible mechanisms of injury.
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Upper-limb Power Test in Rock-climbing
International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2014The goal of the present study was to validate a new ecological power-test on athletes of different levels and to assess rock climbers' profiles (boulderers vs. route climbers). 34 athletes divided into novice, skilled and elite groups performed the arm-jump board test (AJ). Power, time, velocity, and efficiency index were recorded.
G. Laffaye +3 more
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Climbing Monsters: Excess and Restraint in Contemporary Rock Climbing
Leisure Studies, 2006Abstract The tension in rock climbing between technical aspects of performance that do not involve risk, and preparedness to put oneself in considerable and even life‐threatening danger, is explored through an analysis of extreme gritstone climbing in the late 1990s recorded in a successful ‘cult’ film Hard Grit. The film dramatises self‐imposed danger,
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2012
Modern sport climbing, or its various versions, has developed from mountaineering which was a sport that started in the European Alps. By the mid-1980s, the popularity of this new-old sport has spread globally and diversified to include new categories like ice climbing, bouldering, speed climbing, and aid climbing. The style in which a route is climbed
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Modern sport climbing, or its various versions, has developed from mountaineering which was a sport that started in the European Alps. By the mid-1980s, the popularity of this new-old sport has spread globally and diversified to include new categories like ice climbing, bouldering, speed climbing, and aid climbing. The style in which a route is climbed
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Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2009
Ken Hansen, Melissa Parker
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Ken Hansen, Melissa Parker
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