Styles of rock climbing

Most of the escalation in the modern era is considered free climbing - climbing using one's own physical force with equipment used exclusively as protection and not as support - as opposed to aid climbing, arts-dependent form of escalation which was dominant in the sport from the previous day. Climbing is free generally divided into various styles that differ from one another depending on the equipment used and the settings on your Belay, rope, and anchoring systems (or lack thereof).

Bouldering
Uploading short, under the tracks without the use of the security rope that is typical of most other styles. Protection, if used at all, usually consists of a cushioned pad bouldering below the route and / or spotted, a person who looks down and runs from the fall of the climber away from the danger zones.

Top roping
is escalating with the protection of a rope that is already suspended through an anchor at the top of a route. A Belay controls the rope, keeping tense, and prevents long falls.

Lead climbing
is climbing without the use of pre-established belays. One person (the leader) will begin the climb carrying one end of the rope and gradually attributed to the additional anchors as rises, thereby establishing a system Belay, which progresses with the ascent. The escalation of lead article describes additional subtypes, such as:

• Trad climbing and
• Climbing sports.

Free alone

(should not be confused with free climbing) is a single person climbing without the use of rope or any system of protection whatsoever. If there is a fall and the climber is not for water (as in the case of deep-sea alone), the climber is likely to be killed or seriously injured. Although technically similar to bouldering, climbing free solo usually refers to routes that are much higher and / or much more lethal.

Indoor climbing

is climbing indoors (in an objective fact-climbing wall, usually), regardless of style (s) used.