We made a Belly Full of Bad Berries simulator and tried it a few different ways. It must be noted that this is a very rough simulator as the crack is not very deep, so doesn't fully represent it.
The most common way we see people climbing it is with the toe of the top foot facing into the crack (Trench Foot technique AKA. The O-Toe). The way we climbed it 11 years ago was with toe of the top foot facing out of the crack (Wide Pony technique).
When the crack is a narrower offwidth (like Belly Full of Bad Berries) it can feel more natural to put toe into the crack first, and this can often work if the crack is wide fist or hand/hand stack width, plus if the crack is deep enough. However we have found that if the crack gets wider (like it does on BFOBB higher up), then sticking to this toe in technique can start to feel increasingly worse and worse. The reason being the twisting of the foot; when using Trench Foot technique the climber has to forcefully twist the foot to enable it to stay in the crack, whereas when the climber uses Wide Pony technique the foot automatically cams (i.e. it wants to turn inwards to the centre point of the body). Therefore if the crack is wider and you still use Trench Foot technique, you are having to actively twist more and more which is increasingly tiring.
We believe alot of people climb this route with the top foot, toe into the crack, because like mentioned above it feels much more natural to do this when hanging underneath the crack. If the climber is hanging directly below the crack and they try to put their top foot into a Wide Pony technique, it will feel incredibly difficult to turn their hips out in this direction, the way to get around this is by body positioning. They should turn their body so face and chest is perpendicular to the crack rather than hanging down and inline with the crack, this will help open the hips out and get the foot into the Wide Pony foot position. Once the foot is placed, they can then hang their head and torso a little lower (more inline) with the crack so that energy can be saved in the core muscles. Moving the torso back slightly lower can also help twist the top foot (Wide Pony Foot) automatically without any extra work from the climber.
So as a very brief and rough guide:
Trench Foot AKA.The O-toe (top foot toe in) - Useful for inverted feet first cracks which are wide fist and hand/hand stack width. The technique only works when the crack is deep enough. Technique becomes increasingly worse as the crack gets wider
Wide Pony Foot (top foot toe out) - Useful for inverted feet first cracks which are wide hand/hand stack or hand/fist stack width. The technique will work in both shallow and deep cracks. technique becomes increasingly worse as the crack gets Narrower
Hope thats helpful for some folk :)
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