User:Hecato/Climbing techniques

Techniques

 * Back Flag
 * Back-step
 * Bat Hang
 * Belay
 * Bridging
 * Camming
 * Campus
 * Chest jam
 * Chimney
 * Clawing
 * Clipping in
 * Crack climbing
 * Dyno (Dynamic move)
 * Gaston
 * Heel hook
 * Knee Bar
 * Lockoff
 * Mantle
 * Stemming
 * Toe Hook
 * Top rope
 * Undercling

Figure-eight loop
(Harness tie-in and securing end of a rope).


 * The de facto standard tie-in knot for climbing.

Bowline on a bight
(Harness tie-in, creation of footholds mid-rope and fixed clipping. Not to be confused with Double bowline).

Easier to untie than figure-eight after being under load. Also considered safe, being one of the two tie-in knots being taught by the German Alpine Club (DAV). Unlike the figure-eight knot, no knots are left behind in the rope after untying. Unlike other bowline variants, the rope cannot slip through easily due to being threaded back through the entire bowline shape after completing a simple bowline knot. Some recommend a secondary stopper knot anyway though.

Yosemite bowline
(also used for Harness tie-in, but less secure.)
 * Should only be used in combination with a stopper knot (e.g. half fisherman's knot), which prevents the end of the rope from slipping through.


 * Fisherman's knot (half fisherman's knot is used as stopper knot, full fisherman's knot is used to join two ropes)
 * Clove hitch
 * Munter hitch (used for improvised abseiling)
 * Klemheist knot / Autoblock Knot (friction knot for descending, rappeling)
 * Prusik (friction knot) Fast to place, works in both directions, less friction than other options, especially on frozen/wet ropes.