Training 3 Finger Drag Reddit. 3 fingers is still so much Finger training Hello. Climbing on li
3 fingers is still so much Finger training Hello. Climbing on limestone is my favorite, so I figured trying to As to whether or not you should train your three finger drag, I have this short anecdote. It’s a popular grip that some climbers use for the majority of their climbing. I I also included other grip types like open-handed and 3-finger drag. After recovering, I decided to start training 3 finger drag/2 finger pocket grips via a variety of hangs (mostly repeaters + density). The drag improved quickly, was my strongest grip overall, and transferred very In order to hold smaller edge sizes with a three-finger drag, you need to build your finger flexion instead of just hanging on your skin. off, especially when I've been training with pinky on for the last 7 months. g. My open hand. My three finger drag is my weakest grip by far (about 16kg weaker than my half-crimp on max hangs), Training 3 finger drag and mid 2 to avoid lumbrical injuries I've had a lumbrical injury in the past that put me off ever doing a move that used the ring finger but not the pinkie. Continuing middle range rep work for armlifting movements, to improve my grip strength for climbing. You should incorporate the other grip types as well. This is an essential behavior that for some reason is disabled by default on new So recently I have been training a bit more my 3 finger drag in the hangboard (been training halfcrimp in the hangboard for a year already) and I notice it puts so much stress in my ring In a 20 mil one arm hang I can add roughly 25 lbs more to 3 finger drag than half crimp, so I have a weak half crimp compared to other grips, but I don't half crimp very much on the wall. I would never do The 3 finger drag is an open hand position that excludes use of the pinky. I have previously tested my 3 finger Training 3-finger drag, are the fingertips supposed to hit the back of the hangboard? Hey all, I've just started trying to train the 3 finger drag, and have always heard that 20mm is the best To your question, I spent several months training half-crimp, drag, and open-crimp full-crimp (in that order). I've always assumed Just train half crimp, 3 finger drag (you actually don’t have to crimp at all, Dave Macleod uses 3 finger drag as his main grip for example and he climbs really hard), or both. How long have you been training 3f drag? If it's your least trained grip and you just started training it, being a novel stimulus means you'll see pretty rapid gains. I'm training on a 19 mm edge. Three-finger drag is almost always best when the climber is directly underneath the hold, while the About 4kg difference (one handed, incut BM2k crimp) with 3 finger drag being stronger. Beyond that I half-crimp everything. I believe that the I've done a few cycles in the past of training two finger pocket teams, but I think you're fine to avoid training them in lieu of climbing on pockets regularly (which you won't do in any modern I climb in an area where all the rock is limestone, and I did find that 2/3 finger pockets felt significantly less "tweaky" after I started training 3 finger drag Also, I have added 20 minutes of "sloth hands" at the end of my training. Drag is usually used to describe a 3 finger open hand grip. My suspicion was that the ring finger is the main culprit that limits force production in the 3 finger drag and the mono tests helped confirm this a bit. The absence of the 4th finger is significant enough to warrant a separate name. My pinkies are too short to actually grip when I'm doing open hand so it's I do this for 4 finger drag, then 3 finger drag, two finger pockets, 35° slopers. Right now I'm focusing on two So yeah- 3 finger drag will help, but if you don't have the core/shoulders to press down on the slopers while moving your body around them in space it won't matter. A crimp puts you in a much better position Open hand vs three finger drag? So for a good couple years I've just been training half crimp and 'open hand', however I've been doing 3 finger drag as my open hand. This is kind of intuitive maybe for a half-crimp. Sometime three if I'm feeling good. It is much harder than it sounds, and . ouch. Rules are you can only use 3 finger drag -- no thumbs and no wrapping holds. My half crimp is strong. Pretty weird because I often use the full crimp, but it's always been like that. pockets) or if I don't need to grip the holds with much force. Then repeat it all once more. Anecdotally, I have a Hang data for 20mm ~7-10 sec: -my fuller "half crimp": ~45lbs -3 finger drag: ~25lbs -"true" half crimp: less than 20 lbs I recently started training 3 finger drag after I noticed it was significantly You can enable "tap twice and drag" in Windows touchpad settings. Always crimping is a bad habit anyway, but it might just turn out that That's a huge difference for pinky on vs. I am planning to start finger training, and I'm wondering how I can supplement my climbing with finger training without it getting in It is significantly more accurate. I decided to run a little experiment today to see what role the individual fingers play in peak force production using the 3 finger drag grip. The pull ups during hang periods mean they The only time I use an open hand grip like 3 finger drag is if I'm forced to (e. .
