Training Slopers

[Lundy]

Hi all,

So in addition to my fantastic weakness in pinching, which is getting much better thanks to this program, I'm also pathetic when it comes to slopers. I don't run into them too much, but I feel like I should be at a minimum level of performance on them for those random occurrences. However, I've found that training them on my setup is incredibly hard. I haven't found training them on the hangboard to be terribly effective, and the only wall angle I have is 45 degrees, so putting slopers on there ends up being an exercise in futility. I have considered buying some sloper balls to put on my campus board, as well as cutting some PVC pipe, putting grip tape on it, and doing long deadhangs from it, but I'm not sure if either would work very well.

Any thoughts on the best way to train slopers systematically with this setup? I realize my limiting factor is the 45 degree wall, but I don't really have the ability to add more wall angles at this point.

Thanks for your ideas!

[daustin]

Can you add volumes to the wall and put slopers on the volume? As I'm sure you know, a big part of slopers is body positioning and technique, so being able to actually climb on them is probably more useful (relative to other grips, at the very least) than isolated exercises like hangboarding or campusing.

Otherwise the PVC pipe idea is probably a good bet. Ted Welser has some good posts about how this engages your fingers/forearms in a different way than just using a deep, open-handed edge.

[brendann]

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