Reporting climbing grades and grouping categories for rock climbing

Isokinetics and Exercise Science

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 273-280

  Draper, Nick ^a   Canalejo, Jorge Couceiro ^a   Fryer, Simon ^a   Dickson, Tabitha ^a   Winter, David ^a   Ellis, Greg ^a   Hamlin, Mike ^b   Shearman, Jerry ^c   North, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c CHRISTCHURCH POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

climbing grades; Ewbank scale; grade tables; Rock climbing; sport climing; Yosemite decimal scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; RESEARCH; ROCK CLIMBING; SPORTS SCIENCE; VOLUNTARY REPORTING;

EID: 82555185023     PISSN: 09593020     EISSN: 18785913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IES-2011-0424     Document Type: Article

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