Overhanging Routes To climb efficiently on overhanging rock, you need to keep your hips close to the rock and your arms straight whenever possible. Bent arms will tire out much faster.
One way to do this is to use the dropknee. Place the outside edge of your shoe on a hold and twist your knee downward. Be careful though, dropknees put a lot of tension on the ligaments in your knee.
As with other angles of rock, it is more efficient to pull yourself into the rock with your arms and push yourself up with your legs.
This is much more physically demanding on steep routes, but even the poorest footholds will help ease the strain on your arms and give you something to push from.
Climb: Jason Piper on Into the Blue, Mt Ettalong, Australia. Photographer: Chris Fox( see more here)