Hand Jamming for Strong Rock Climbing Hand Holds

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Hi I'm Bill with Zoar Outdoor on behalf of expertvillage.com we are here today at a Chapel Ledges at Ashfield, Massachusetts and in this series I'm going to be talking about the basics of moving on rock. Using your hands in cracks called hand jamming can get very powerful sometimes painful technique but it gives you a really solid hold for those few moves where you might need to use it or the hold climb. The crack size makes a difference what I'm going to use in this crack it is pretty wide I'm going to use my whole hand in there. It is going to slide in here, I'm going to get my finger in between my in front of my fingers in front of my palm and then flex my hand in order to create pressure on the 2 sides. You want to wiggle it around until you find a spot that kind of fits it doesn't hurt so much. Take it out of there it looks like that is what I'm doing inside there with my hand. Another option that is less painful and also very solid is to use a fist and this is just about big enough for my fist, maybe a little small by getting my hand in there and crunching my fist I'm creating that same pressure from side to side and this case it is on a pretty big flat surface and this softer part of my hands it doesn't hurt so much and that is a really solid hold as well. You can jam your fingers in smaller cracks by putting them in and twisting them and you can even stack your hands one against the other in some cracks if you need to. So many different ways to jam your hands in the crack and create a really solid hand hold. The comfort might not be there but it is going to get your where you want to go.

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