How have you older climbers changed your style in the last few years.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Climbing on a stationary rope (SRT) has been the biggest change forward for me.

[Mick Dempsey]

I always used to race to the top of the tree then come down to start at the bottom (on a dismantle)

I'm more likely these days to get to half way, anchor in and deal with lower branches then move further up.

Seems easier.

[devon TWiG]

I always used to race to the top of the tree then come down to start at the bottom (on a dismantle)

I'm more likely these days to get to half way, anchor in and deal with lower branches then move further up.

Seems easier.

 

I have nearly always done that !! .............................................................................. In response to the original question ..... I have not really changed style to be honest , it is hard work, always has been and always will be you just become hardened to it to some extent , ground work and other aspects of the work are just as hard as the climbing .. though Hi abs are used more nowadays ....

[Steve Bullman]

Ground work is harder than climbing IMO

[Joe Newton]

Ground work is harder than climbing IMO

 

 

Definitely. I do a bit every now and then when I have to set an example and it nigh on kills me. Don't let them see me cry though!

 

I wonder perhaps if as competent climbers we find it easier to climb as that's what we do, so we're conditioned for it and have found ways to make life easier and more efficient.

 

I'm currently training a new guy to climb. He makes ground work look easy but climbing look like very hard work.

[Mick Dempsey]

Ground work is harder than climbing IMO

 

Agreed, not least because you have to march to the beat of someone else.

A climber sets the pace, if he's feeling ornery life on the ground gets ugly.

[Steve Bullman]

I wonder perhaps if as competent climbers we find it easier to climb as that's what we do, so we're conditioned for it and have found ways to make life easier and more efficient.

undoubtedly. A days climbing used to kill me when I first started.

[Joe Newton]

undoubtedly. A days climbing used to kill me when I first started.

 

 

It goes full circle mate, before long it'll start to kill you again, no matter how good you are!

[Mick Dempsey]

Definitely. I do a bit every now and then when I have to set an example and it nigh on kills me. Don't let them see me cry though!

 

I wonder perhaps if as competent climbers we find it easier to climb as that's what we do, so we're conditioned for it and have found ways to make life easier and more efficient.

 

I'm currently training a new guy to climb. He makes ground work look easy but climbing look like very hard work.

 

A climber can stop, and look at stuff on the pretext of planning, never really an excuse for a groundy to stand still!

[Joe Newton]

A climber can stop, and look at stuff on the pretext of planning, never really an excuse for a groundy to stand still!

 

 

Passed out from exhaustion was the last one I let slide. I won't be so soft next time mind...