How to climb sketchy slabs from 1983 (Top 5 slab mistakes)

Hello, I'm Chris and I climb rocks and I'm going to teach you to climb a slab or how not to climb a slab. So here is five reasons people mess up on the slab. Number one is they just try and climb like a gecko which is just a bit shit because we don't actually have sticky things on our hands like geckos do. So gecko they climb like this like really close into the wall with their sticky fingers and sticky feet but if we do this then we're just going to slip like that and then it So what we should do is climb like goats with our little goat feet and just stand up and balance find that balancing point to where you can just stand up and then you can just use your hands to keep yourself away from the wall so that you don't get too close to it. It's like ew ew ew without falling backwards. Reason two that people fail on the slab is they like to do what I call foot bobbing which is where you find a foothold and then instead of just placing the foot they'll bob the heel around like that and what happens is you get a lot of dirt and stuff on the bottom of your shoe which makes it so much more slippy and then if your foot is slippy then you're falling so what you should do instead is if you find a foot no matter how good or bad it is you place that foot and you leave it there so you place the foot and then move and then you can just trust it and sit on it so much easier so you won't fall. Number three it's kind of similar to number two it's just trust your feet so if you place a foot and you don't weight it properly then you're just going to slip. If you are moving to a foothold over on the left and you weight it properly then you will stick to it like glue. If you don't then you'll slip so just trust your feet. Number four I've got the person behind the camera mouthing the numbers to me now because I'm just that shit. Number four is stop pulling so hard. Yes that was it. Number four is stop pulling so hard. So if you feel yourself pulling on a slab it's all about being body aware so if you feel yourself loads of weight going through one of your hands like you're tensing up really hard then all your weight is going to come off your feet so like with not trusting your feet and the foot bobbing your foot is just going to slip again because you're not putting enough weight through that rubber for it to kind of activate as you will. So if you feel yourself pulling stop try sit on those feet and move just with your feet and use those hands just to pull yourself over your feet as you need. Number five is even Ellie doesn't know what number five is. Number five is think creatively. So number five is think creatively so if you come to like a bare slab and there's nothing to put your feet on and you don't know where to go it might just be that you just need to think your way around it so on a lot of slabs you have things called mantles which is where you put your palm down on something like that and then lots of foot feet to hand like that and things like that so if you can't figure out a slab it's most likely not that you're not strong enough because you don't need strength to climb a slab what you need is just to figure out that beta and spend the time looking at it figuring it out putting your hands in weird positions holding things in weird ways and maybe try a heel up somewhere and do something really gross and disgusting just try everything no matter how bad it is and trust those feet and climb slab because it's better you don't need to hate it. I love the slab. Cut! So whilst I'm climbing this slabby dino I thought I'd just come on and thank everyone for watching it's my first youtube video so if you could be quite kind that would be amazing it would mean the world please leave like a like and comment and subscribe for more let me know if there's anything else you want to see and I appreciate everyone who sat through it. Climb slab, love slab, live slab, live laugh love. Bye!