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The aim of the exhibition is to give visibility to new artists who – using traditional or digital photography- express themselves emphasizing and pointing out the multitude of the existing expressions in urban climbing.
The works should feature scenes of climbing on urban architectural structures, preferably without ropes and avoiding all the artificially made climbing walls. The works should present moments preceding or following the climbing, or details emphasizing aspects, emotions, or details of the proposed subject.

Now go out and take some pictures!!!

Loosen up your muscles simply by doing some stretching. Do this approximately half an hour before you begin climbing. This prepares your ligaments and joints for the climb. If your muscles are stiff, they won’t be flexible and fatigue soon.

Understand the Route

Don’t just grope blindly whenever you climb. Study the surface’s characteristics. Choose the path you’ll take and stick to it. Be aware of any kind of possible tough areas and how you are able to move through it. When you’re getting down, analyze your performance. Are you content with it, or it is possible to improve?

Advice on Keeping Balance

Keep in mind the rule: use just enough grip strength to keep you balanced. Perhaps the most common mistake is gripping too tightly. This can lead to lower arm muscle fatigue.

By applying only the required pressure, balance is going to be attained. While you ascend, position your body as close to the wall as you possibly can. This increases your balancing ability. Additionally, it limits stress on the grip.

Minimizing Arm and Leg Fatigue

Work with your legs to hold your weight, not your arms. The arms are actually for balance as well as weight shifting. One more wall climbing tip: if you’re making movements that require upper body strength, move forward without to hesitate. Taking too much time increases pressure on your body.

Avoid Unsmooth Movements

Learn to climb smoothly. Inconsistent, uneven climbs will certainly tire you quickly. As a result, your ascent is going to be slowed down. Don’t wriggle around; stick to the path you thought out. Move smoothly and you won’t have balance issues. Ensure you are aware about your movements.

Focus and Relaxations

Take it a single step at a time. Do only think of the next step, nothing more. While climbing, only use the necessary steps. This is going to save energy. Sooner or later, you will learn to become deliberate on your ascent.

Rest or Relaxation Spots

If the wall is high, try to find several rest spots (an edge, overhang etc). Take a rest every three meters you climb. Take the break, even if you feel strong; your body will be needing it later.

Muscle Training

Focus on the muscles on your arms, legs and chest. There are many muscle and weight training programs you can follow. This needs to be supported by a well balanced diet plan. If you’re over or underweight, you may tire out easily.

Tips on Falling

Push yourself away from the wall whenever you fall. By no means let the rope circle on your equipment or body. Likewise try to learn to keep your feet down. Don’t let yourself be discouraged if you fall; everybody does. What is important is learning how to handle it.

Correctly applied, these wall climbing tips will increase your climbing skills while decreasing fatigue. You simply need to have patience and work on the factors described. Little by little, you will see improvement, which will build confidence.

1. Climbing is really a dangerous sport. Make sure you take part in a training course that provides professional instruction coming from experienced professionals. The majority of climbing gyms offer these kind of courses at fair prices

2. Stay in the best possible shape, focusing on lower arm, hand grip as well as finger strength.

3. Climb easy routes first until you are able to climb them with ease and next proceed to more difficult climbs.

4. Although a fear of height is pretty normal, as a climber it’s something you should attempt to get over. An excellent suggestion to remember is not to look any further down than your feet.

5. Try and picture each and every move in your head prior to performing it. Make your motions as deliberate and smooth as you possibly can, and take some time with each step.

6. Envision your climb as if you were on a step ladder and move from one hold to the other just like if you moving from rung to rung. At all times try to keep the feet and hands in the correct position for your next move in order to avoid needing to change position with every move. This will help you to move faster and easier.

7. Avoid the tendency to rely entirely on the hands and arms, and learn to trust your feet. Keep in mind that you normally stand on your feet all day long, thus they are used to holding your weight. Whenever you feel tired, locate a place to lodge your feet to relax your arms and hands.

8. It’s normal to wish to focus on the top of the climb since getting there is certainly your main goal. It’s more advisable, however, to focus on what’s immediately within reach. Concentrate on climbing from the bottom level up rather than trying to work out a route from the top down.

9. Calf spasms really are a common event when hanging, particularly if your heel is hanging down. Should you develop one, it may normally be eliminated by applying additional weight to your toes for several seconds.

10. Attempt to stay close into the wall whenever you rest. Leaning too far away requires you to use much more strength to pull yourself back into the rock face. This is particularly essential when you’re doing a shorter climb when your relaxation stops are short.

V Grades

This was the earliest grading system created for bouldering. Grades within this scale range from -16, with 16 being the highest, or most difficult value. Even though a grade of V0 is recognized as an easy bouldering course, remember that it might nevertheless be regarded as a good challenge for any beginner boulderer. Indoor bouldering has began to grade problems or difficulties too and also have included a grade of V-B that represents a course which is suited to a newbie. V Grading originated in, and continues to be most generally being used in the USA.

Peak Bouldering Grades

This approach of grading bouldering problems was created by Allan Williams in an effort to include grades for less difficult problems which were not included in the V Grade System. Nonetheless, since the V Grading system changed to include lower grade problems, the Peak System has lost favour with lots of climbers. When you see B-Graded problems on a conversion chart, it really is this particular Peak grading system that you’re seeing. Found usually in North America, the majority of climbers found the methodology utilized in this system being inconsistent and complicated.

Font Grades

Developed in France, the Font or Fontainebleau Grading System is usually seen in European courses. Grades vary from 1a to 8c, with the lower numbers symbolizing the easier problems. This method of grading has been actually developed to cover the sandstone boulders of France and that’s why a lot of climbers claim that it’s not really a grading system related to general bouldering. Because of this, many find the ratings confusing, finding that what should have been a rather easy problem from its Font Grade, proved to actually be rather difficult. As a result, this system, though still popular in Europe, hasn’t garnered the international popularity that the V Grading system has found.

Although it seems that some debate stays over which system is best and most precise for grading bouldering problems, it’s in the end up to the individual climber to get informed and educated as to the difficulty level of any bouldering problem being considered.