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Male Speaker: So you are using the hands as grips but you are really pushing with your legs in order to get the vertical motion going.

Female Speaker: What clothes can you wear? I am always wearing street clothes.

Male Speaker: Girls usually wear like same type of clothes you would wear for yoga and I would say guys find them many things from shorts, track pants and a lot of guys climb in jeans which is not best thing but it does help against the abrasion on the wall.

Female Speaker: Climbing like other sports have special shoes.

Male Speaker: The way your climbing shoes are made it's very tight okay so you want to be wearing usually one size smaller than your regular shoe size. The bottom is made of rubber, so what this does it gives you a lot of grip so that your foot can stick on very small holes.

Female Speaker: Why do you want to wear that are smaller?

Male Speaker: It gives you more arch support because they are small - it is kind of the ballerina concept. Their shoes are very, very tight their toes are kind of bent in the front then you can put your foot on a very small hole; put a lot of pressure on it. Whereas if you wearing really big shoes, your foot is going to move inside the shoe and then you have no arch support.

Female Speaker: I think it's time to get to harness?

Male Speaker: Harness, pull it around your waist and you want to putting it above the hips so you can see here with the buckles I am going back a third time to make sure that it's not going to come lose. So the next thing to go on is going to be a chalk bag just to prevent the sweat from making you slip of the holes, put on the little bit of chalk on your hands. So we will put this around your waist towards the back in the middle so you can reach with both hands.

The next thing we are going to use is a Belay device. This particular Belay device is called an ATC which stands for Air Traffic Controller, because this is what you are doing when you are down here you are deciding, who comes up, who goes down. So this goes on the rope. The rope is tied to the beam at the top there and we are going to clip this in to the rope. Once that's on, we are ready to tie you in.

Female Speaker: Okay.

Male Speaker: So this is a what we call the figure eight knot and the nice eight and then we go into the harness here and here. Before we go up, before we do any procedure we always double check each other. So what I am checking for is that your figure eight knot is tied in properly to both places on your harness, all of your buckles are double back and your harness is well adjusted. On my side where you want to be checking is that the carabiner is locked, make sure my buckle is also double back and then just make sure that this has passed through correctly in the ATC. You want to make sure the rope just goes straight up, straight down, no twists.

As you are climbing up, I am going to be belaying you so that means that I am holding the rope as you go up. So I am going to do a four step system that always lets me hold the rope like this and you can feel the tension coming into your harness like this. I am going to try to keep you just little, not that tight, but just a little bit tight so you feel safe when you are going up. Obviously, you are going to look around for the holes. You want to use the bigger ones for your hands and smaller ones for your feet. If you are trying to hold the rock, that's way too small that means its probably for your foot that being said don't think about anything too much, just try to climb and enjoy yourself. That's it. Good start.

Okay now what you want to do is lean back and now I am going to lower you but you just use your feet to push off the wall. How does it feel?

Female Speaker: That was good and sure off my mentality.

Male Speaker: So you are using the hands as grips but you are really pushing with your legs in order to get the vertical motion going. Female Speaker: What clothes can you wear? I am always wearing street clothes. Male Speaker: Girls usually wear like same type of clothes you would... click to read more