What is Speed Climbing? The Basics You Need to Know.

What is Speed Climbing?

Speed climbing on a climbing wall is a form of indoor rock climbing where climbing professionals compete against each other to reach the top of the climbing wall in the fastest time. Each competitor climbs on a standardized climbing wall, and the same holds and route are used each time for consistency across competition.

How High is the Speed Climbing Wall?

The wall for the international competitions is 15 meters high and has two climbing lanes that are each 3 meters wide. The wall must be overhanging at exactly 5 degrees, and the wall surface is required to have a specific texture. The climbing route is always the same with the same holds made by a certified builder. The timing system and belay methods are also standardised.

Why is Everything Standardized?

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) is the organisation that regulates and promotes climbing competitions around the world. The IFSC sets the standards for speed climbing and other climbing competition formats and determines which events are sanctioned for world record attempts.

Standardization of climbing competitions allows the speed climbing results of one climber to be compared across the world and over time if the competitions are sanctioned. These events are opportunities for a climber to challenge the existing world record.

Is Rock Climbing in the Olympics?

Rock climbing will be making its debut at the Olympics in the 2020 games in Tokyo, Japan. Competitors shall climb in three different events featuring three styles of climbing: speed climbing, bouldering and sport climbing, The climber with the best overall score from these three events will take home the climbing gold medal.

The Future of Speed Climbing and Training Speed climbing is the fastest-growing portion of indoor rock climbing, according to the Climbing Business Journal. Every year new gyms are being built that also have speed climbing walls and existing gyms are creating speed walls in their existing space.it is a

result of the growing popularity in the sport and the increase in youth teams. These youth teams practise and compete in speed climbing.

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