After the team is finalized the Leader needs to fill the application form. Click on the Fill application form link in navigation panel. Click on fill application form link corresponding to the expedition id. Spaces are not allowed. A climbing competition , sometimes shortened to comp , is usually held indoors on purpose built climbing walls.
There are three main types of climbing competition: lead, speed, and bouldering. In lead climbing, the competitors start at the bottom of a route and must climb within a certain time frame, making sure to clip into pre-placed quickdraws along the route.
Speed climbing can either be an individual or team event. The person or team that can climb a route the fastest is the winner. Bouldering competitions consist of climbing short problems with the emphasis on number of problems completed. As of February , sport climbing is being considered added to the Olympic Games. Lead is the most classic sport climbing discipline.
Competitors climb a long difficult route designed and set by the route setter , and attempt to reach the top, which in climbing terms, is the end of the route.
The climber's performance equates to the highest hold reached, and whether that hold was "controlled", meaning the climber achieved a stable position on that hold, or "used", meaning the climber used the hold to make a controlled climbing movement in the interest of progressing along the route.
All standard Lead competitions consist of three rounds: qualifications, semifinals, and finals. In the qualification round competitors climb 2 similar routes 'flash', meaning there is no isolation and they can watch other competitors climb before their own attempt. Their rank will then be calculated as the square root of their rank on either route multiplied by each other.
In the Semifinals and Finals athletes climb a route "on-sight", meaning they enter isolation before the round begins, then they go for 'observation', a 6-minute period in which the athletes are allowed to see the route for the first time and visualize moves. After that they go back to isolation and come back for their attempt one by one, and their starting order is the reverse of the ranking order of the previous round, i. In the case of ties, the athlete's rank from the previous round is taken into account the "countback" process.
In the Finals, and if the tie is not broken using the countback process, the climbing time will be considered. The route must be climbed within a certain time limit, usually 6 minutes, but can be extended to 7 or 8 minutes according to the route setter's opinion. Speed is the only factor that counts in the Speed Climbing event. Competitors climb a slightly overhanging IFSC certified vertical piste with belaying from the top.
Since the IFSC has created a standard wall for the world record. The climbing time is determined by mechanical-electric timing the competitor strikes a switch at the top of the route but manual timing is also possible. When mechanical-electric timing is used, the climbing time shall be measured with an accuracy of 0.
As of December , Evgeniy Vaytsekhovskiy from Russia holds the men's 15 meter speed world record; 5. Esther Bruckner from France holds the woman's record at 8. The new Team Speed discipline was introduced as a medal showcase for the World Championship. It is a relay competition with teams of three. The teams are made up of 3 athletes of the same sex. Before the set of rules was introduced, the teams had to be mixed sexes, hence usually two males and one female.
The race is held on the world record wall split into four lanes, two for each team. The first athlete races to hit the button at the top of the wall, at which point the second athlete climbs the second leg to release the third and final athlete whose final button marks the total time.
The bouldering competition consists of climbing without belay ropes on short walls. Falls are stopped by specifically engineered mattresses. This discipline is marked by high difficulty concentrated into a short route, the limited competition time and the close proximity to the spectators.
It differs especially from Lead in one respect, that the climber can attempt a route more than once. If athletes do not reach the finishing hold they may be awarded a bonus point for having reached a particular hold,the Bonus hold, which is marked by the route setter. In bouldering 20 athletes qualify for the Semifinal, and 6 proceed to the Final. Bouldering competitions at higher levels usually use Isolation as well as the roped competitions.
Dual is not yet an official medal competition,but it is part of Rock Master competition finals. Dual is a combination of lead and speed. The two athletes compete on two identical, parallel routes, and they are belayed from below. Whoever gets to the top first, wins. Sometimes climbers must climb the route on sight.
This means that they are not allowed to see other climbers on the route, or receive any form of advice beta from other climbers, and have only a limited amount of time to visually inspect the route from ground level.
Otherwise later climbers would be able to learn from previous competitors' mistakes, giving them a considerable advantage. In addition to competitions, festivals such as the Phoenix Boulder Blast and the International Climbing Festival held in Lander, Wyoming are a gathering place for rock climbers from around the world.
They feature trade shows for climbing specific merchandise, clinics from world-renowned climbers, and parties. There can be open competitive climbing or youth climbing. Youth climbing is competitions for children under 18 years of age. Today more than 75 countries actively participate in different worldwide competitive climbing events which include popular events like World Championship and the Youth Championship. In case of competitive climbing, players not just have to be excellent in climbing, they also have to be fully aware and cautious as the game involves a lot of risk.
As far as the equipment are concerned, the players have to use both climbing and protective equipment for a safe and successful climbing experience. Let us discuss some of the climbing equipment used in this game. The ropes that are used in climbing are typically in kernmantle structure, i. The core fibre provides around 80 percent of the tensile strength during the climbing whereas the outer sheath layer provides the desirable handling characteristics as well as durability to the inner core fibre.
These ropes are mostly used for anchoring as well as for abseiling where players climb using these ropes. In some cases, players also use these ropes as fixed ropes to climb by using ascenders on them.
The modern webbing used in the game are made of either nylon or spectra or the combination of both. The webbing that are specific for climbing are made of nylon pressed flat tubes and are very strong with a capability of 9kn or pounds of force. The webbing that is made of dyneema is even stronger with a capability of more than 27kN. Webbing is used for many purposes. It can be used as an anchor around trees and hurdles. It is also used for carrying equipment. Carabiners are used as connectors during competitive climbing.
These are metal loops with spring loaded gates. Initial carabiners were made of steel whereas presently lightweight Aluminum alloy is used to make these. In case of locking carabiners, these prevent opening the gate in case of use and are mostly used in conditions where important connections are needed such as: anchor points or belay device. Different types of locking carabiners are there which are twist lock and thread lock. The twist lock carabiners are also called auto locking carabiners because of their spring loaded locking system.
These are used by the climbers in order to connect to bolt anchors and for other security purposes. This webbing is a 60 cm loop which can be tripled over and turned into a 20 cm loop. Carabiners that are used for protection have a straight gate whereas those to which the rope side is connected have a bent-gate as it helps in clipping the gate easily and very quickly. The safest as well as the most effective place to clip a quickdraw is when it is at waist height.
A harness is made from nylon rope webbing where the rope is tied around the waist for better comfort as well as security. It secures the climber to a rope or anchor point. It also helps in working at heights and includes amenities like gear loops and paddings.
There are different types of harness that are used based on patterns such as sit harness, chest harness and full body harness. While a sit harness consists of a waist belt and two leg loops, a chest harness is worn around shoulders and is considered as an extension of sit harness.
A full body harness is a combination of sit and waist harness with the webbings used for the harness is polyester webbings. These equipment are used to control the rope while the climber is belaying. Usually a climber takes the help of these belaying devices while coming down. Two types of belaying devices are used which are active and passive design devices. It also has a carabiner to lock off the rope. In case of active devices, a built-in mechanism locks off the rope without the help of other equipment.
These are also known as friction brakes. These devices are designed for descending on a rope. Different types of rappel devices are used in climbing. These devices include figure eight, rescue eight , and Petzl Pirana. Ascenders are mechanical equipment that are used for ascending on a rope during the climb. To prevent these ascenders from coming off the rope, locking triggers are used.
Usually two ascenders are used to climb a fixed rope. As climbing is a risk filled sport, climbers use various protection devices in order to ensure their safety.
These devices vary from personal clothing equipment to that of different climbing tools. Some of these equipment are described below. Helmet is one of the primary safety equipment in climbing.
A helmet is mostly used to protect skull against the impact forces during a fall or accident. In order to avoid flipping and having impact on back side of the head, helmets are highly recommended for the players. However, in case of competitive climbing, the use of helmet is optional.
In case of climbing, a specially designed shoe is used by climber in which sole is vulcanized with a rubber layer in order to increase the grip of the foot while climbing. These shoes are a few millimeter thick and fit comfortably around the foot. In order to reduce the frequency of replacing the shoes, they can be resoled. Leather is used as the most common upper material whereas other materials such as fabric and synthetic leather are also used in making a climbing shoe. A downward pointing toe box ensures stability while standing on small holes and pockets.
The belay glove used in climbing is mostly made of either leather or synthetic substitute and is mostly helpful in protecting the hands while belaying down the rope. It also prevents rope burns and involuntary releases of the rope. Chalks are mostly used by all climbers in order to absorb moisture and sweat on the hands. Mostly these chalks are stored in a chalk bag and are placed near the waist area of the climber with the help of a belt or hanged from the rope through a carabiner.
In case of competitive climbing, the players climb an artificial wall. The climbing has a strong resemblance with natural climbing obstacles and has grips for both hands and feet to climb.
This sport is considered as an indoor sport but it is also performed at outdoors. Some of the walls are constructed out of bricks and woods whereas in case of modern climbing, most of the climbing walls are made of thick multiplex board with holes drilled on it. Recent walls are made of manufactured steel and iron. The walls have places for fitting the belay ropes.
Different types of walls are there based on the materials used in their construction. The simplest kind of wall is made of plywood and is also called as woody. The holds used on a plywood wall may be bolt-on holds or screw-on holds. Bolt-on holds are fixed to the wall by iron bolts that are inserted through the holds whereas screw-on holds are smaller in size and are connected to the wall by screws. Besides plywood, walls are also constructed using slabs of granite, concrete sprayed onto a wire mesh, pre-made fiberglass panels, large trees, manufactured steel and aluminium panels, textured fiberglass walls and inflatables.
The holds that are placed on the walls are of different colours. Each hole on the walls contain a specially formed t-nut that allows modular climbing holds to be screwed into the wall.
The outer face of the wall is covered with concrete and paints or polyurethane loaded with sand. The grips are made of different sizes to resemble an outside rock. All holds are painted with different colours and holds with same colours form a route. These routes are of different difficulty levels and are overlaid on one another. In another way, the route is defined by the holds with coloured tapes placed below it.
During the climb on a specific route, a climber is allowed to use only the holds with designated route colours as hand grips but is allowed to use both hand-holds and footholds as well as surface structures and textures as foot grips. The level of difficulty of the routes are usually a result of consensus discussion between the route setter and the first few climbers to climb the wall.
In case of competitive climbing, the rules and regulations of the sport vary from each other based on the type of competition. There are three main categories which are Lead climbing, Speed climbing , and Bouldering.
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