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 hard 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 getting to the same place, so you arrive at the crux with something left. You climb harder by climbing smarter, not only by pulling more.
You have to do the boring part
Technique improves through deliberate, repeatable work. Drills, focus sessions, movement blocks. Climbing more at your limit doesn't do it, because 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 moment you cut feet when you didn't need to. A flaw that's obvious from outside is invisible from inside the movement. That's why video matters so much. Watching yourself frame by frame 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. On 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. Your coach then builds ongoing movement work around what the video shows: drills, focus sessions, and movement blocks aimed at the patterns that keep showing up in 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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