Crack Climbing 101: Episode 1 Tape Gloves

Crack climbing 101
Video by Anthony Johnson: www.agjohnsphotography.com/
Brought to you by
Vertical Endeavors: www.verticalendeavors.com/
Quality Adventures: www.qacustomvans.com/
Minnesota Climbers Association: www.mnclimbers.org/
Climbers:
Anthony Johnson
David Kolcinski
Joe Lee
Kristina Suorsa
Ryan Atienza

[@comet91]

This series may be the best tutorial on crack technique I've seen. It's crazy it doesn't have more views.

[@aaronpossis8808]

This is an awesome series- thanks. Why do most people use tape instead of crack gloves?

[@anthonyjohnson4703]

Aaron, Thanks, glad you like it!
As to gloves, two reasons for tape vs gloves.
1) Cost, a roll of tape is around $3-4 and if you build your gloves well it is not uncommon to get a couple months of use out of them VS paying $30+ for crack gloves.
2)Fit, Crack gloves are only available in a handful of sizes and often do not provide as much coverage as one would like. By using tape you are able to make a glove that is custom to your hand resulting in a much better fit and you can customize how much coverage you need (think gloves for Offwidth vs thin hand and finger cracks).

[@ryanjameson5908]

Very cool set up. Is there any site you have posted the plans to build this crack training wall?

[@anthonyjohnson4703]

The guys over at Quality Adventure LLC built this crack wall. Hit them up, they can probably help answer questions! www.qacustomvans.com/