After rock... there was plastic!

Documenting Moves - Take Three!

Setting out to produce the first video to document climbing moves, I searched the woods in Fontainebleau looking for problems that would give nice footage for demonstrating matching. I found a few holds and shot some footage. Shot some more, changing angles, making the move obvious... demonstrating transitions etc.

I soon found that even this simple move required quite a few different types of holds. Finding all these holds in relevant angles to be able to demonstrate and document the move well proved difficult. Being in a gym with a good choice of holds in various colors and with the ability to rearrange them to fit the demonstration is far more simple and will provide far better documentation.

The quality of the footage could also be better. The problem was not the lighting or angles, the problem was that the holds themselves did not visually stand out very well from the wall on natural rock. The hold and the rock are the same color and the usage of a hold looks insignificant, especially when it comes to foot placement. In Fontainebleau, smearing is essential on mostly everything and this makes for lousy demonstration of foot on hold positioning and movement.

Demonstrating foot placement on holds that are almost invisible on video and at the same time using a technique that makes the hold seem insignificant and tiny does not lend well to this demonstration.

Going indoors

So the next attempt will be going indoors, setting up holds to demonstrate specifically and exactly what I want to document.


May The Normal Force Be With You!