Etude offers a variety of workshops at Stone Age Climbing Gym in Albuquerque, NM to help develop athletes understanding and application of movement skills, tactics, and more
Upcoming:
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Stomp the Stone Cup: citizens comp skills and tactics
This prep course is focused on developing the movement skills and tactics that lead to success at the Stone Cup Citizens Competition (Dec 6). Across four one-and-a-half-hour sessions, athletes will receive technical movement instruction on boulder problems as well as guidance on competition tactics to allow them to give their best effort at Yank and Yard.
Topics include: mantles and pressing, dynamic movement, pressure climbing, putting it all together
We strongly recommend that you climb V4/5 before attending this course.
Mondays 11/11 - 12/2, 7:00-8:30 p.m. at Stone Age Midtown.
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Send Onsight: skills and tactics for the first go
A 3-hour deep dive into the skills and tactics around the first and best go. Athletes will work on developing a thorough and effective onsight process via route reading, building a plan, adjusting on the fly and commitment drills.
A top rope belay certification at Stone Age is required.
Saturday 12/14 9:00-12:00 at Stone Age Midtown.
On the horizon:
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Falling and commitment
Climbing hard will always involve both committing to hard sequences and falling off of them. Like anything, if you want to get better at these skills you’ll need to practice them.
This workshop consists of 4 hours of instruction on falling drills, controlling your focus, and applying these skills to your climbing.
Two 2-hour sessions.
Lead belay certification required.
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Crack Climbing
A deeper dive into how to stick and move up cracks. Taught with Stone Age Gym's head guide, we will cover taping, jamming technique across the sizes and basic movement technique for pure crack climbs.
One 3-hour session.