What are the different techniques to jam in a crack?
I have been told that climbing cracks is very much a methodical procedure. Especially in places like Yosemite and Indian creek, where the cracks can be the only feature of the rock that can be used to climb up. There is a distinct set of techniques employed to jam your finger/hands/arms/... in the crack, which can be "ordered" by crack width. Not absolute width, at it always depends on the climbers finger/hand/arm/... thickness, just to sort the techniques from narrowest to widest. Some techniques I know of but that are certainly not complete: ring lock, hand jam, fist jam, hand&fist stack, chicken wing, ...
What I am looking for is an ordered list of these crack climbing techniques.
If the names aren't self evident, a short explanation is welcome, but don't got into detail - many of these techniques probably warrant their own question.
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To start with,
- Tips
- Fingers
- Ringlock
- Handjams (thumbs up, thumbs down, cupped hand)
- Fistjams
- Hand & Fist stack
- Fist stack
- "Chicken wing"
- Arm bar
whole body (chimney):
- frog (feet against back wall, knees aginst front wall)
- sitting (back against back wall, feet against front wall)
- stemming (left foot/hand against one wall, right foot/hand against other)
If you have more, just add them to the list.
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