CLIMBING

Climbing is a sport that it consist use your hands and feets to ascend a rock mountain.

It is done indoors and out, on natural and manmade structures. This is because there are lots of types of climbing:



TYPES

 -LEAD CLIMBING : Is a techinque climbing which you have to ascent a route. It can be routes like 8 metres or 50 metres (but you need an especific roupe).
The lead climber must have another person for help him, the belayer. The belayer has multiple roles: holding the rope in the event of a fall, and paying out or taking up rope as the climber moves.



  -BOULDERING : It's more similar than lead climbing but the only diferent it's that you don't need any rope or harnesses. The walls which you can climb are more shorter than lead climbing, 5 meters are normally but you need a crashpad it's like a mat specific for boulder climbing.

TRADICIONAL CLIMBING: It's  a style of rock climbing that a climber or a group of climbers wants to climb big walls more highs than 80 metres. One of the moust famous rocks are the Capitan or the mountain range of Montserrat.

DEEP-WATER SOLOING: Is a form of solo rock climbing, pracitced in the sea and if you fall you fall to the sea. Are route from 5 - 30 meters and it's the moust dangerous type because if you fall bad to the sea you can broke your back.














MATERIAL:

Climbing shoes                                                                           Rope                                














 Harnes                                                                                         Express 







Magnesium                                                                            Helmet 

                                                               
                                                                                          











Crash Pad:                                                                           Gri-gri:

COMPETITIONS

In the sport of climbing exist 3 method of competicions,lead, speed and bouldering, that it has been creating for the IFSC (Internacional Federation of Sport Climbing):



LEAD CLIMBING: There are a big wall like 30 - 40 metres which some exclimbers equip lines for the climbers.
The rules are easy, win the climber who can arrive more high and as fast as possible before 7 minuts. Exist 2 categories males and famels because the fisic is diferent for  both.
In the world championship there are four events situated in europe and asia.

SPEED CLIMBING: There are a wall of 15 metres which always the routes are the same with the graduation of 6b, and it compit 2 climbers at the same time
The rules are, win the climber who can arrive before to the top.










BOULDERING:
Is a bouder (a wall of 3 meters tall) whith 5 lines to do and if you fall there area one mat.
The rules are, the climber who can climb more lines win and normally the lines are different, 1 or 2 are tecnic routes and the other fisic routes and depent of your state fisic you do more well some types of lines tha the others.