How Do I Get Better Climbing Technique?
Strong climbers love to train strength and avoid looking at technique, because technique is harder to measure and harder to face. But inefficient movement is often the cheapest grade you'll ever gain. Footwork, body positioning, and how you grip can waste energy you can't afford on hard climbs — and all of it is trainable.
Technique is movement, not effort
Better technique means moving more efficiently: precise footwork, good body positioning, and using only as much grip as the hold requires. The aim is to spend less energy reaching the same place, so you arrive at the crux with something left. Climbing harder by climbing smarter, not just by pulling more.
You have to do the boring part
Technique improves through deliberate, repeatable work — drills, focus sessions, and movement blocks — not just through climbing more at your limit. Climbing hard reinforces the patterns you already have, including the bad ones. Changing those patterns takes structured attention to the movement itself.
You can't see your own movement
This is the real obstacle. You feel the move but you don't see the dropped heel, the early reach, or the way you cut feet when you didn't need to. The flaw that's obvious from outside is invisible from inside the movement. This is exactly why video is so valuable: frame-by-frame review turns "that felt off" into a specific thing to change.
How OPC builds technique
Detailed movement coaching is a core part of the Power and Pro tiers. With Power, you can submit up to four video reviews a month for frame-by-frame feedback on what's working, what isn't, and what to apply next session — and your coach builds ongoing movement work around what the video reveals: drills, focus sessions, and movement blocks targeting the patterns that show up across your climbing. Pro extends this to unlimited video review, so you can send what you want, when it matters.
Whatever tier you're on, the full OPC training library — including Essential Climbing Technique — is available throughout your subscription.
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