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Why do climbing professional use less than 5 fingers on some holds? From https://www.lagrimpe.com/abc/le-mono-ou-bi-doigt/ I mean, why don't they put the other fingers, even if they don't quite...
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System
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2020-04-17T22:41:33Z (about 4 years ago)
Source: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/q/22891 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Mathieu Krisztian
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2020-04-17T22:41:33Z (about 4 years ago)
<p>Why do climbing professional use less than 5 fingers on some holds?</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ca1sV.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ca1sV.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p> <p>From <a href="https://www.lagrimpe.com/abc/le-mono-ou-bi-doigt/" rel="noreferrer">https://www.lagrimpe.com/abc/le-mono-ou-bi-doigt/</a></p> <p>I mean, why don't they put the other fingers, even if they don't quite fit, to reduce by a few grams the corresponding tension on the other fingers. Adding more fingers would reduce the global tension in the other fingers that are hardly used: why not?</p>