How To Use Cam Hooks - Clean Aid Climbing

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0:00 Introduction
0:21 The Basics
1:00 The Placement
2:17 Inverted Placements
2:56 Expanding Flakes
3:53 Falling on Cam Hooks
4:38 Summary
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Practise in a safe environment before using cam hooks on a big wall. Set up a top rope or go ‘aid bouldering’ to test them out. They may damage the rock, so stay away from established routes when practising. This video was filmed on a pile of choss, in the middle of nowhere, in Canada.
A great comparison of different brands of cam hooks:
• Cam Hooks - A pretty i...
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And this fall on the hook 😱😂

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[@JB-rt4mx]

You should of mentioned Ed Leeper of Boulder, CO. 70s.
Hooks, Cam Hooks, Crack Em Ups (Beaks) , Bolt Hangers with Button Head Split Studs...his product manual is online 🤓🤠

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[@drclimbmx]

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[@bonefishboards]

Cam hooks are the bomb. Once you get comfortable using them, it's scary how fast you'll ascend thin-ish cracks.

[@TacioPhilip]

It's not nice when you place a small cam hook in a crack and when you are holding the carabiner below it (already with your weight on the aider) it scapes going right in the back of your hand :( I already flew 10 meter in fall, but this small fall was one of the most harm to me, it cut the back of my hand and hurt my hand muscles, took some months of physiotherapy to recover... but it's a nice piece (and when I tried the same rote where I was hurt by cam hook, the only piece who fits was a copperhead - so scare as cam hook, but I had no psychologic to try the same piece which hurt me!!!!)

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What is the electroswing song you used at the start of the video?

[@jonbrown314]

Can you do a video on reducing the risk of rock fall as a leader?

[@vdiffclimbing]

Good idea, Jon! I'll put it on the list.

[@xmnemonic]

how many and which size hooks make up a "set"?

[@vdiffclimbing]

0:54 One each of these

[@brianrodman1033]

You could start out with two of the Narrow (#2) size if you are short on cash or don’t know that you will use them often. The Wide (#3) will likely be the next most useful size, go for a pair of those next. With pairs you can “leap frog” them up cracks that are the same size for a good portion of the pitch.

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