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Old 11-21-2014, 10:21 AM   #61
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Default Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Climbing

The USMC technique uses legs and arms to do it, I can't imagine doing it quickly enough safely without that technique.
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Old 11-21-2014, 10:26 AM   #62
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The USMC technique uses legs and arms to do it, I can't imagine doing it quickly enough safely without that technique.
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Old 11-21-2014, 12:09 PM   #63
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The USMC technique uses legs and arms to do it, I can't imagine doing it quickly enough safely without that technique.
I'm assuming that USMC trains in applied climbing, as opposing to using climbing as one of the generic physical exercises for a harmonious-ish physical development, right?

I mean, stuff that is done to raise certain sub-attributes and sub-sub-attributes is not necessarily applied 'in the field': e.g. the training of a pole vaulter includes bits and pieces of weightlifting in regimes that are quite different from the stresses experienced during a vault, both in terms of technique and in terms of force magnitudes/durations/directions involved.
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