Hi James, I think there is enough room for everyone in climbing to have their own path. Climbing can be what ever you want it to be. Not sure who Alex is but I am glad he has found his own path.

Hey, thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear you felt the training volume was too high. As you can tell from Ollie's sentiment in this video, it's never our intention to push the training volume too high. When we deliver our training plans we are explicit in how the first few weeks should feel and we encourage everyone to reach out to us if they feel the plan does not meet their expectations or ability to recover. Please to drop us an email if you have any further feedback that might help us improve in the future.

I believe at the time it was fairly balanced. Short was climbing around V8 and tall around V9.

It's about the shape and how fingers get loaded differently based on their length and angle. It's why your middle two fingers get stronger than the outer two when training on a flat edge. There's actually a bit of controversy behind the research behind it, and stolen credit. That's probably why they're not explaining too much.

🙋‍♂, not a mathematician here. Maybe you can help. My understanding was vectors are used to represent physical quantities that have a magnitude and direction. I got the idea from engineering illustrations, like the typical lever and fulcrum images we all see in textbooks. Is there a more accurate way to describe/illustrate what I am trying to show?

​@@LatticeTraining From physical point of view, vectors are exactly what you described in the video and I really liked that you mentioned them, as they truly provide great intuition for climbing. From mathematical point of view, vectors may be more abstract. The set of 3-dimentional physical vectors may be represented as the set of triples of real numbers, like ( -1, 15.4, 8) , ( 2, 6, 0.5) and so on, where the triple contains the coordinates of the point the vector points towards. But nothing stops us from looking at more than three dimensions, for example ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) is a 5 dimensional vector. Its physically impossible (maybe) and yet - mathematically trivial (even a child can imagine a list of 5 numbers). But why stop here? We may have 10, 1000, a million, we may even have infinite dimensions and this is actually used for practical reasons, like doing linear regression in statistics (approximating points with a line). Formally, a vector is "an element of a vector space", which is a special kind of set with a bunch of rules (rules like a+b = b+a, a+0 = a and so on). The joke comes from the fact that physicists almost always use the lovely three dimensional vector, while mathematicians work in the general case, severely overcomplicating simple ideas in their abstract world.

It is, good spot! I don’t have a tfcc tear but a slightly lumbrical strain. The support helps me by pushing tendons together at the wrist and increasing passive tension. I have worked with athletes with tfcc tears and it depends. One athlete had surgery and we had him back to full training with considered hold types in a few months. So it’s definitely possible but the timescales depend on severity.