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Below we have a video covering the 3 variations of the basic climb. The basic climb is so basic that it gets easily overlooked in its complexity. You may not think twice about teaching it. If you want to set your students up for success in the basic climb, keep reading. If you love the depth of this article, you will love when the Rope Manual Volume 1 gets released ! When they first learn the basic wrap, I have students hold with bent arms as they wrap the basic wrap on their feet and stand.
This position is known as the basic stand. I judge their level of accomplishment by whether or not they can open their hands blocking on the rope so as not to fall backwards. If they can relax their grip, then they are adequately squeezing with their feet and this is what is required in a solid basic stand. Teach students to hold the rope with straight arms as they perform the basic wrap from the ground.
Once they have the basic wrap on their feet, they have two options to stand; they can either 1 pull straight up to stand with arms bent or 2 perform a roll through the spine to stand on their wrap with bent arms.
Push with the hips, then roll all the way up until the head rolls back. It is the last thing to come up. Newbies can act like their head is going to fall off, and not want to tilt it back. Let it release and then pull it back up so the motion flows. An effective roll up uses very little arm muscle. Once the hips are over the legs, it just becomes a matter of stacking the rest of the body at the new level in space. It can be a powerful tool to simply instruct students to perform a second basic stand while they are in a basic stand.
