How to Ice Climb Video 2: How and where to swing 'em!

[@dmosier]

It's truck! My new catchphrase

[@letyourmusshang]

Tell me about it 😂

[@Moosecoaster]

Industrial Truck vid!

[@wildertainment]

So we're saying "truck" now? 1:15 2:36 cause you better truckin believe I'mma be saying truckin truck from now trucking on.

[@georgemartin1498]

I’m not an ice climber but I still very much enjoy these videos. Always up for learning and Will you are rock star presenter! Thank you.

[@thomasedwards6285]

After teaching martial arts for years your attention to mechanics is amazing. I love these videos.

[@willgadd2187]

Thank you, and I'd love to learn more about how our bodies move. There's some commonality across sports that's fascinating to me.

[@OliverFetter]

Absolutely love the stoke abt good placements 😂🌞🌞

[@willgadd2187]

Truck!

[@luiscan66]

The way you grab the axe reminds me the way to use a japanese sword. Awesome!

[@GeoffreyGonzales]

thank you guys so much for this deep dive masterclass . will be coming back to this for years to come (hi future geoff)

[@johnhelms8226]

Excellent vids. I went ice climbing on a whim in the UP a couple of years ago. I am a former powerlifter, and I basically tried to do pull-ups with the axes. My forearms were absolutely screaming after a few minutes. Of course, my feet were useless. I am going to try again this winter, but with at least a rudimentary understanding of proper technique.

[@willgadd2187]

Good stuff!

[@lylephipps]

You are a great teacher! Thank you and Merry Christmas!!

[@TheMerryPrangster]

Your are fantastic instructor thank you for the vids!!

[@lylephipps]

Great pace and meaty! Concise repetition without fluff is super helpful :)

[@Vicentecarmonagonza]

Love this series!! 👍👍👍

[@rabiabaloch6111]

hi please please please make a complete video while removing the thick snow from car /truck, . please thank you

[@Bananakid11]

Love your excitement :D

[@BrettGilmour]

Great video Will

[@Vince-ml9gw]

Awesome

[@larryborshard7824]

Enthusiastic, clear, memorable and motivating as usual! I hope this hasn't been commented to death already, but at 1:10, you meant the ice is a convex area (bulging outward), not concave area, no? Thanks again, Will, huge help as always!

[@willgadd2187]

Doh, yes thanks!

[@christophstraka3113]

Hi Will, at 11:09 I noticed the ice changing colour below the pick placement - potentially seperating from the rock/the surrounding ice. Would you still consider it safe? Great videos, thank you!

[@willgadd2187]

It's a sound and feel thing, and also about the shape of the placement and underlying ice. Sometimes, but if you are in doubt swing again!

[@christophstraka3113]

@@willgadd2187Hi Will, thank you for your reply!!! It is a "shame" that the clips can´t transport the feeling😀 - na, let´s rather get out and feel it ourselves! Cheers (from a dreadful/climatechange european ice winter)

[@apeiron1984]

that's goooood!

[@valgoesoutdoors1505]

Great video. I’ve done a beginner ice climbing course last year. The problem I had was getting the axe out of the ice again. I wasted so much energy. Any tips on how to be more energy efficient?

[@sebastianflynn1746]

You're probably swinging to hard, swing from the wrist and peck, you don't need be burying the tool. It can also clean easier if you file off a few little teeth near the end.

[@willgadd2187]

Rip it out aggressively pulling on the handle after you have stood up totally. The top of the pick is a "wedge" so it breaks the ice, and out the pick comes. Plus it's fun.

[@felixblouin4860]

Haffner canyon?

[@Aerodave11]

ou yea

[@DickSparticus1]

Its Truck!

[@deapthought1156]

Truck!

[@jindrichjochec296]

Pity theres no ice where I live...

[@slowgold20]

go find a drytooling crag!

[@evliyacelebi4798]

büyüksün baba

[@Pandaboomina]

🛻 ❤

[@jonbarrett789]

I can feel the stoke all the way in autumn 🫡🤝🤙 thanks!!