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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Rock Climbers"”.
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Are Rock Climbers Crunchy? : Serious Leisure, Place Attachment and Environmental Concern in the Shawangunks
… and environmental concern was distributed to rock climbers in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York State (N = 151). A mediation analysis, as outlined by Kenny, Kashy and Bolger (1998) was used to quantitatively explore this relationship. While evidence could not be garnered of a mediation …
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Rock Climbers in the New River Gorge: Attitudes toward Management Actions and Trust of Park Managers
… for whitewater rafters, day hikers, and rock climbers. Located in central West Virginia, about 60 miles east of Charleston, NERI contains over 1700 climbing routes. This thesis is part of a larger study, funded by the National Park Service, which studied geologic, botanical, and …
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Hybrid climbing bodies: the climbing assemblage and the technologically mediated engagements and ascensions of rock climbers
… Network Theory inspired approach to the study of rock climbing to argue that climbers are more-than-human fusions comprised of the human and non-human. The research explores this notion of hybrid climbers, which I term the ‘hybrid climbing assemblage’. The complicated relationships between these …
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Behaviors, Knowledge, And Education Of Leave No Trace Principles In The Red River Gorge Rock Climbing Community
<p>Rock Climbing is becoming a very popular and mainstream outdoor activity. With the growth in rock climbing comes an increase in the numbers of visitors that this sport attracts. The increase in visitor usage undoubtedly leads to an impact on the natural environment surrounding these rock …
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The socio-cultural practices of the Dorset rock climbing community towards the local environment.
… focuses on understanding the interplay between rock climbers and the space of participation. Using an ethnographically-informed qualitative approach, the data for this research was collected using active participant observation and 22 interviews, between 2017 and 2018, with a population of …
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THE EFFECT OF MAGNESIUM CARBONATE (CHALK) ON GEOMETRIC ENTROPY, FORCE AND EMG DURING ROCK CLIMBING
<p>Rock climbers often attribute the cause of a fall to the inability to maintain contact between the hands and the surface of the rock. Rock climbers turn to magnesium carbonate (chalk) to combat this problem even though little scientific evidence supports its use. Rock climbers believe that chalk …
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Behaviors, Knowledge, and Education of Leave No Trace Principles in the Red River Gorge Rock Climbing Community
<p>Rock climbing is becoming a very popular and mainstream outdoor activity. With the growth in rock climbing comes an increase in the number of visitors this sport attracts. The increase in visitor usage undoubtedly leads to an impact on the natural environment surrounding these rock climbing …
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Corporeal routes: climbing towards culture
… with, and participant observation of rock climbers throughout 2003, I propose a model of spatial knowledge anchored in corporeal simulation rather than mental representation, and demonstrate the necessity of this conceptual shift by arguing that one's perception of the environment …
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Rock Climber Awareness of the A2 Pulley Injury and Associated Safety Practices in Recreational Indoor Bouldering Gyms
… is the most commonly sustained injury among all climbers, especially in recreational indoor boulderers who repetitively perform strenuous movement with limited safety equipment. The A2 pulley is a ligament in the fingers that supports tendons which allow for finger flexion. Within the climbing …
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Economic Impact of Rock Climbing on the Communities Surrounding the Red River Gorge, Kentucky
The sport of rock climbing has exploded in America over the last decade resulting in millions of climbers flocking to the available areas near and far from their home. Such traffic demands clear and effective policy-making from land managers, public and private, in order to conserve and protect …
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The Effect of Ischemic Preconditioning on Rock Climbing Performance
<p>Rock climbing involves isometric contractions of the finger flexors, limiting forearm blood flow and causing ischemia-induced fatigue. Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) has been shown to improve time to failure (TTF) during climbing-specific tasks, though its mechanisms remain unclear. The purpose …
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The roles of dispositional flow, dispositional mindfulness, and self-compassion in the Objectification Theory Framework
… flow as experienced by chess players, dancers, rock climbers, and surgeons. Historically, however, objectification theory researchers have used measures of flow not grounded in Csikszentmihalyi’s multi-dimensional conceptualization. One purpose of the present study was to investigate the aspects …
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Shawnee National Forest Rock Climbing and Frontcountry Recreation: Leave No Trace, Awareness, Attitudes and Behaviors
… and origin of introduction to the sport of rock climbing on the environmental awareness of climbers. Results indicated that climbers are aware of ecological conditions at Jackson Falls, SNF. Origin of introduction was not a direct influence on impact awareness, as were the constructs of …
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Detraditionalization and differentiation in UK rock climbing
… is detraditionalization and differentiation of rock climbing in the UK. The type of climbing in the UK known as traditional climbing is taken as the "pregiven or natural order of things" (Heelas, 1996: 2) and how more contemporary rock climbing types interact with traditional climbing is …