Exercising - not a blog

[Cranky Old Man]

Not to mention, strong fingers are essential in advanced climbing. At the early stages foot placement and balance is much more important (and overusing your fingers can result in life long ailments) but when you start climbing some difficult routes you really need to have the finger strength. Check out this video of one of the best climbers in the world doing a ONE ARM ONE FINGER pull up (he has climbed many of the worlds highest skyscrapers without ropes):

I hope you guys appreciate how outrageously difficult this is. Anyway, just saying there is a practical use for finger strength (maybe not in martial arts but in climbing and many other sports there is).

Still, how do the climbers train their fingers? By resting their body weight on them, bending them backwards? If you want to train fingers for hanging from them, why not hang from them, like from a bar?

Edit: Also, one finger? Why??? In case you come across a rock surface with finger sized holes in it, that you just urgently have to climb? If my life depended on that, I'd just give up at that point.