Paige Claassen – Precision Footwork

Precision Footwork

Overview

If you’re serious about climbing harder grades with reduced fatigue, then improving your footwork will help you accomplish your goals—and send your projects. In this course, pro climber, footwork specialist, and master technician Paige Claassen will teach you how to up your footwork game. You’ll get specific tips and drills you can incorporate into your training program so you can learn to power your movement from your toes up through your legs and core to send your very best.

You’ll Learn

• How improving footwork has helped Paige’s climbing, and why footwork is important
• What is good and bad footwork and how analyze your own footwork
• How to dial in climbing shoes to meet your objectives
• How to improve your body position relative to your feet
• Specific tips and drills to hone your technique
• Core and supplemental exercises to incorporate into your training program

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• Footwork Is a Passion
• Why Footwork Matters
• Analyzing Your Footwork
• Dialing in Your Shoes
• Defining and Refining Body Position
• Honing Technique
• Incorporating the Techniques
• Core and Supplemental Exercises
• Increase Your Strength
• Consistency Is Key

About Paige Claassen

As a kid growing up in Estes Park, Colorado, Paige Claassen struggled to fit in to traditional activities. But when her parents took her to the climbing gym for the first time when she was 9, she found her place: climbing.

From that day on, Paige has spent each year training, competing, and traveling to sport climb both in the United States and internationally (in places like South Africa, India, Ecuador, Norway, and Australia).

“Climbing provides a very personal challenge—a battle between you and the rock,” Paige says. “It’s best to find a rock you truly want to battle, because when you’re trying at your limit, you never know how much time you’ll be spending with that piece of stone. Those long battles are what get me fired up!”

While attending school at the University of Colorado Boulder (where she earned a marketing degree), she sent routes like Grand Ole Opry (5.14b/c) at the Monastery, Colorado, and Just Do It (5.14c) in Smith Rock, Oregon. Since then, she’s climbed numerous 5.14a, 5.14b, and 5.14c routes, including two first ascents graded 5.14a and 5.13d. She loves to choose aesthetic projects that challenge her, but excels at technical sport climbs with intricate footwork.

Beyond climbing, in 2016 Paige founded the Southern Africa Education Fund (SAEF), a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to providing kids in South Africa and Namibia with the education necessary to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. That means helping fund new classrooms, update infrastructure, and more.

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