Hold Types
Usually considered the easiest hold. You can fit your whole hand around it.
What is a jug?
What climbers wear to have better traction, balance, and foot protection while climbing.
What are Climbing Shoes?
When a climber uses the wall for their feet instead of a foot hold.
What is a Smear?
A kind of footwear not allowed in bathrooms.
What are Climbing Shoes?
The kind of knot we use to tie into a top rope route.
What is a Figure 8 Knot?
This is a hold that you fit your fingers into, and its name is something commonly found on pants.
What is a Pocket?
A powdery substance that climbers use on their hands for better grip.
What is Chalk?
A move where a climber's whole body leaves the wall and is airborne for a moment like a "jump".
What is a Dyno / Dynamic Move?
Something not allowed in the climbing gym unless playing a game in class or on a treadmill.
What is Running?
What are Safety Checks?
Usually big and round, without the right technique, your hand slides right off of this hold.
What is a Sloper?
Something worn by climbers to tie/clip into and attach climbing gear to.
What is a Harness?
When one leg is extended straight out away from the climber to counterbalance their body weight.
What is a Flag / Flagging?
How old a kid has to be to climb unsupervised in the gym.
What is 14 years old?
Something we always say before climbing to check that the climber and belayer are both ready to start.
What are Climbing Commands?
This hold is a real cliffhanger! You hang from this by the tips of your fingers since it doesn't have much surface area.
What is a Crimp?
A small metal clip used to anchor or clip climbers into. Sometimes they are also used to attach gear to a climber.
What is a Carabiner?
When a climber brings one hand or foot to the same hold as another hand or foot.
What is Matching?
How old someone has to be to get an official First Ascent Top Rope Belay Certification.
Something climbers wear in the gym to let others know that they are certified to belay.
What is a Belay Tag?
Usually long and skinny, this hold is named after the way you have to grab it.
What is a pinch?
The belay device attached to all the top ropes in the gym.
What is a Gri Gri?
A move where a climber twists their body while pivoting one knee downward in order to extend their reach.
What is a Drop Knee?
How old someone has to be to get an official First Ascent Lead Belay Certification.
The name of the method of belaying we learn in class and use here at First Ascent.
What is PBUS (Pull, Break, Under, Slide)?