Olympic climbing will be part of this year's games. Here's what it'll take to bring home gold
Running and jumping have been a staple in every Summer Olympics, and now 바카라 게임 웹사이트” climbing.
"Such a natural fit from the beginning of time, humans have been climbers to escape danger, and or a variety of reasons, and it's really fun," said Andrea Charest, the owner of Petra Cliffs Indoor Climbing Center in Burlington, Vermont.
Olympic Climbing is a bit more structured than the "escape danger" times.
"There is three different disciplines that people will be combining, so it's kind of like a triathlon of climbing, basically, and they are very different disciplines. They all demand very different skill and technique," Charest said.
Discipline 1: Speed climbing.
"It's just as fast as someone can get up a 15-meter wall," Charest said.
Discipline 2: Lead or Sport Climbing.
"Longer climbing, basically for every hold that somebody climbs up is an additional point," Charest said.
Discipline 3: Bouldering.
"The style is sort of three-dimensional and gymnastics, and power," Charest said.
Petra Cliffs competition coach Cate Bebee's main discipline is bouldering.
"Instead of rope climbing, when you are attached to a rope, you are basically just climbing something with the pads down here as your protection, so when you fall, you are taking a ground fall every time," Bebee said.
The takeaways from Olympic Climbing will be more than the tough falls.
"I think climbing is really beautiful, too, it is very much like a dance on the wall," Charest said.
"I think a lot of really good climbers tend to make things look easy, which is one of the coolest things about watching the world cup climbers and hopefully the Olympic Climbers," Bebee said.
"Imagine it's not going to look in a lot of ways like people are working that hard because they are just making climbing look beautiful," Charest said.
Sometimes the beauty is subtle, other times it jumps off the screen.
"That moment when there is a big dynamic move to a hold and maybe their body swings out but they still maintain control of that hold," Charest said.
For the first time ever, that beautiful hold could be for Olympic Gold.