Something About Climbing

“Life is a journey that keeps going up”, climbing is a new sport derived from mountaineering and a competitive sport in mountaineering.It was included in the world competition program in 1974, and in the 1980s, modern competitive climbing competitions with difficult climbs began to emerge and attracted widespread interest, and it is an alternative Olympic Games Project, and in 2015 was included in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games official competition items. September 28 according to Japanese media reports, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Organizing Committee recently decided in the Council, will apply to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to add five new items, respectively: rock climbing baseball and softball, karate, surfing and skateboarding. A source from the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games said that the five sports were selected because they are very popular among the younger generation and have a high level of support in Japan and the world. The International Climbing Federation said it is a new beginning for the climbing program.

In recent years, hiking, downhill, skiing, surfing, water skiing and other fashionable sports are developing rapidly, and there is a huge demand for sportswear segments, and more and more people are joining this wave of fashionable consumption, because this part of the population advocates novelty, the pursuit of fashionable, trend-setting, and striving to be avant-garde, so that the need for clothing aesthetics has arisen. In Europe, America and Asia, Japan, South Korea and other countries rock climbing has been quite popular, and rock climbing in China after more than a decade of seeding, cultivation, its development prospects have been very tempting. Especially in the past two years the development has taken shape and attracted more and more young people to participate in, this set of skills, thrilling, ornamental in one of the extreme sports with a unique charm to attract the attention of all the people, and quickly become popular.

The rise of rock climbing has led to the development of related clothing industry. Many people go rock climbing will choose ordinary sports clothing, such as T-shirts and sports pants, loose and comfortable. For outdoor rock climbing, some people also choose clothes made of wear-resistant fabrics such as Oxford cloth. However, although these clothes have a lot of advantages but they are not the most suitable rock climbing clothing. Sweatshirts and pants are not abrasion-resistant and cannot withstand the friction of the rock wall; jeans are abrasion-resistant but their tight cut is not conducive to the stretching action, and are on the heavy side. In order to match the requirements of physical activities and external environment in rock climbing, professional rock climbing clothing is needed. The design of rock climbing clothing needs to pay attention to the safety, comfort and psychological needs of rock climbing clothing, in addition to the fabric and structure of the clothing is different from the daily clothing with more stringent considerations, and according to the personalized aesthetic needs of rock climbers will be the fashion elements into it, to meet the functionality of the clothing on the basis of more attention to fashionable design.

Through research, the current domestic rock climbing activities are more frequent, the level of activity is wider, the consumer group of rock climbing clothing has been involved in all kinds of people, the demand for rock climbing clothing is larger, in which the youth, women are the main groups of rock climbing clothing fashionable consumption. Especially for women, wearing rock climbing clothing mainly focuses on two aspects: one is the sports style that emphasizes vigor and vitality, and the other is the fashion principle of sexy orientation, which puts forward higher requirements for the aesthetic design of the clothing - lightweight, specialization, comfort, personalization and fashion.

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