Topic
Every Extreme Sports Adventures article tagged technique — 4 pieces across 3 sections.
Whitewater
A river surface is a readable map of what is happening underneath. Learning to read it is the difference between reacting to a rapid and moving through it deliberately.
Backcountry Snow
Uphill travel on skis rewards technique far more than fitness. Two people of equal fitness can differ by a factor of two in how tired they are at the top.
Whitewater
A roll that works ten times out of ten in a swimming pool frequently fails on the first attempt in a rapid. That is not a fitness problem or a technique problem. It is a conditions problem.
Climbing
Lead falls are a normal part of climbing and most people learn to take them badly, by accident, over years. There is a technique, and it can be learned deliberately in an afternoon.
