Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing

You're climbing on little dimples and nubbins in the rock.

It's pretty simple. There are nine, sort of, rules that I discovered after 35 years of rock climbing.

In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too.

Emily hates climbing.

Prices have been climbing steadily.

I keep climbing up, go back.

We are at 380 and climbing.

Those shoes won't do for climbing.

Climbing this mountain is very difficult.

Children are incredibly adept at climbing trees.

If, for example, house prices are routinely described as climbing and climbing, higher and higher, people might naturally assume that that rise is unstoppable.

They're climbing up a wall, or a tree.

It's sped up again, it's a foot climbing.

You feel like you're climbing a wall of wood.

Even in rain and snow I enjoy mountain climbing.

Friction climbing doesn't have any sort of hard positive edges.

He's built, in fact, a climbing foot bot inspired by nature.

After climbing Mt. Fuji, I got the inspiration for a poem.

Some cyclists sing hymns or recite nursery rhymes as a climbing aid.

As we passed, two boys were climbing the mount Kenya of trash.

Playing baseball is a sport, and climbing mountains is a sport, too.

One of the most common is climbing the secret staircase and losing ourselves.

Competent rock is rock that will hold itself up without any shoring.

Decorative Rock

Rock Dodger

Now will this help us think about the design of more effective climbing robots?

What goals is this ant trying to achieve by climbing this blade of grass?

They're clinging to a rock face and actually scraping bacteria off that rock face.

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

And I began climbing trees with my kids as just something to do with them, using the so called arborist climbing technique, with ropes. You use ropes to get yourself up into the crown of a tree.

Rock, paper, scissors.

Rock, paper, scissors.

This is Brian Rock.

A flying animal needs a different kind of model from a walking, climbing or swimming animal.

And second, she tells us that she walked upright, but had some adaptation for tree climbing.

If we can show some of the video, you can see it climbing up the wall.

She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

Some of these things are 10 stories deep or more, and one of my climbing friends says that the reason we actually climb at night is because if we ever saw the bottom of what we're climbing over, we would never do it.

Have you heard the story of the disputants who entered his chamber by climbing over the wall?

Have you heard the story of the disputants who entered his chamber by climbing over the wall?