Into The Mind of a Setter
Monday, May 12th, 2008
By: Chris Danielson
For me, routesetting is most fun and most rewarding when it becomes an intellectual challenge – when actualizing an interesting creative goal demands analytic problem-solving.
When setting, I sometimes try to build unique sequences I have never quite seen before, or to create my own take on established climbing movements.
In this effort, I tried to set a complicated sequence that starts from a set of specific goals revolving around the creation of more hand movements than there are hand holds.
In the video below, a good friend of mine and strong boulderer from New York, Ian Irving, climbs a problem in which the challenge was to force the use of multiple single-directional handholds with both hands on each hold at different times – without matching hands on a single hold – and without bumping movements, where the climber would simply move hand to hand from one hold to the next in a single direction.
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