Climbing Difficulty Classification by Climbing Difficulty Level

The Sierra Club in the United States established the following scales for the convenience of describing the difficulty of climbing routes in the early years:

Level 1 is to travel on a rocky slope, generally without using your hands to help balance

Level 2 is sometimes by hand, but beginners and inflexibles don't have to be protected with a rope either

The third level is that there is considerable danger after falling. It is often used by hand. It is best to prepare a rope.

Level 4 requires some climbing skills, and most people believe that ropes are necessary because of the danger to life in the event of a fall. Generally, climbers need protection, and protection points are easy to find.

Level 5 is that ropes and protection must be used to prevent serious consequences from falling, requiring special climbing and protection techniques to varying degrees. Starting from this level is called "technical climbing".

Level 5 was originally divided into 10 levels according to the difficulty, called "Yosemite Decimal System" (Yosemite Decimal System, or YDS. Yosemite also translated "Yosemite") in the form of 5.0, 5.1, 5.2--. It is the sixth level, that is, you must directly use artificial equipment to climb. However, with the advancement of rock climbing technology and equipment (climbing shoes, magnesium powder), YDS has become an open level, so there is a "5.11" subdivision level, and each "digital level" after 5.10 is divided by difficulty a, b, c, d four times "letter level". The hardest route in the world right now is probably 5.14c or 5.14d. The difficulty of the new route is given by the climber according to the level experience (very subjective) that he has climbed before, and then there are more people who climb, and the subjective level given is gradually fixed. For example, when the most difficult level was still 5.10, someone climbed a new route, and it felt that compared with 5.10, the difficulty was higher than the difficulty distance between 5.10 and 5.9, so it was necessary to break through 5.10 This artificially stipulated upper limit of five levels, called It's 5.11.

Generally speaking, people without training can go up to 5.6, and those with basic technical training can go up to 5.6-5.9. From 5.10, regular technical and strength training is required. But this is a very general statement.

YDS ranks the route according to the most difficult "technical action" in a route. The route with ten 5.10 actions and the route with only one 5.10 action near the ground are all 5.10. And the route of different nature (plane, crack, friction ) are actually sometimes difficult to compare. But with more people climbing, the level becomes objective and strict. Britain, France, Germany, and Australia have their own hierarchies. The UK rating is made up of technical and risk components.

Route selection and training improvements are easy to do with a strict level. But in pursuit of digital grade climbing is boring. But it's a matter of personal taste.1. Rock climbing can increase body flexibility and coordination. This is the key ability of rock climbing, which is more important than physical strength. In the medical field abroad, rock climbing is used to correct the development of children's muscles and the coordination of hands, eyes and bodies.

2. Rock climbing can enhance physical strength. Rock climbing requires a balanced strength and beauty of hands and feet, enough to carry one's own body weight and resist gravity.

3. Rock climbing can exercise our concentration. Stepping on the rock block with full energy and paying attention to every detail of the body's displacement on the rock block can cultivate a person's concentration on things.

4. Rock climbing can increase our aggressiveness. When you rely on the climbing rope to bear your weight and 'hang' on a high rock wall or rock tower, do you give up, or continue to persevere? It is not just courage that can be described, but also willpower, a sense of honor, and the determination to surpass oneself.

5. Rock climbing can increase our self-confidence. In the face of a rock field that is at least 3 or 4 times taller than his own height, he is still resolute in the difficulties, and his xinxing is naturally more self-respecting and confident than ordinary people.

6. Rock climbing can exercise our sense of balance. Known as the "spider man" walking on the rock wall, the basic posture of walking is "three o'clock and one little movement", relying on the sense of balance!