Your Hips Are Your Power Center
Magali Lequient climbing “Liquid Zipper” (11b) at “The Pipeline Crag” in Maple Canyon, Utah.©Chris Noble
“Do the Elvis!”
Two young men, whom I barely knew but had eagerly suggested we go sport climbing together, yelled up at me.
“What?” I yelled back, trying to maintain composure. What the hell were they talking about?
I was struggling at the crux of a moderate sport route and when I looked down both of the guys were grinning and gyrating their hips.
At the time, most of my experience was in trad climbing. “I must be missing something,” I thought. I’d never heard of “doing the Elvis” in trad climbing.
Later, I went to a local climbing gym to learn better technique from a coach. After many sessions, it finally dawned on me: my hips should not act like an anchor on a ship! They are in fact my power center.
If you think about it, you can move your hips in many ways to your advantage, just like those boys were trying to show me all those years ago.
- Move your hips out from the wall so you can see your feet.
- Once you place your feet, rock your hips over them so that you can stand up.
- Engage your hips forcefully (as if doing a squat) to get power from your lower body rather than trying to do all the work with your less powerful upper body by pulling only with your arms.
- Wind up with your hips for momentum when making a big side-to-side or upward movement like a deadpoint or dyno.
- On steep technical rock, focus on keeping your hips “married” to the wall for better balance.
I bet Elvis never dreamed he’d be invoked as a model for efficient climbing movement!
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