Analysis of 2020 Olympic Bouldering – M2 Finals

Respected climbing coach, Udo Neumann, and myself are exploring different ways to analyze climbing movements. Here we looked into Tomoa Narasaki’s performance on the men’s second boulder of the 2020 Olympic climbing finals in Tokyo. Watch the video below and see if you can pick up on the spatial and temporal aspects that we note […]

Climb Bytes #2: Kinesthetic Differentiation in Climbers

Dynamic one-arm hang

Climb Bytes is a series and regular newsletter where we briefly summarize scientific research on rock climbing in plain terms so that anyone can learn diverse topics in climbing science. We believe that science and climbing should be accessible to all. Research Article Information Title: Kinesthetic differentiation, kinematic and dynamic parameters in sports climbing competitors […]