Interesting...I had written off big cross throughs a couple of years ago. I explained them away as too physiologically challenging for me. To prove that I couldn't cross well, I would cross my arms with my fingers pointing in opposite direction. Then make other people do the same, and look at the disparity. This is kinda like measuring your ape index if you are one of those people that complain about not being able to reach holds. While these might all be factual limitations. They don't really add up, because if it did Andrew would be the best climber in the world. And as we all know...SCIN wrote: Footwork: Frog wins over drop knee almost every time.
Stopper move: Big ass cross throughs.
To combat my lack of crossing capacity I got devilishly good at breaking down cross moves into a series of bumps, gastons and matches. Which I have gotten pretty good at.
Getting to the point...
I feel like these two are related. Frogs and Crosses. A year ago I started working on my technical weaknesses i.e. backstepping. I had climbed for over ten years and when someone shouted "now backstep" It wouldn't even register which foot or where. I was completely clueless. Backstepping as opposed to frontal(frog) climbing inadvertently helped my crossing. Go Figure.
(Sorry Andrew)
(Hope this helps SCIN)
