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Wallhop Training
Drill 2Easy20–40 minutes

Drill 2 — The Single Catch

Do not attempt a climb. Get one wall to give you one extra jump, twenty times in a row. This is the whole technique in its smallest form.

Pass criteria

Twenty consecutive catches on the left wall and twenty on the right, without attempting a climb.

Before you start

  • Drill 1 completed — FPS capped, shift lock on, jump chaining confirmed

Setup

  • Find the widest, most forgiving two-wall gap available. Wall Hop 1 - 100 Studs is ideal because you can pick a width deliberately.
  • Stand in the gap, square the camera, and take your hand off the mouse.

The drill

  1. 1

    Hold jump and press one direction

    Hold Space. Press A only. Do not alternate. You are trying to make contact with one wall, once.

  2. 2

    Watch for the height gain

    You are looking for a single extra jump — a visible pop upward that a normal jump would not have given you. That is a catch. Nothing else matters yet.

  3. 3

    Release and reset

    Let go, land, and do it again. One direction, one catch, reset. Resist the urge to keep going.

  4. 4

    Count twenty consecutive catches

    Twenty in a row on the same side, with no misses. If you miss, the count restarts. This is deliberately strict.

  5. 5

    Switch sides and repeat

    Now do twenty on D. Most people are noticeably worse on one side, and finding out which is the point of doing them separately.

  6. 6

    Vary your starting distance

    Once both sides are reliable, deliberately start too close and too far. Feeling the failure modes teaches you what the correct distance feels like far faster than only ever succeeding does.

Troubleshooting

No height gain at all, ever.

Cause: You are not making contact with anything the game treats as standable.

Fix: Move closer to the wall before jumping. This is a positioning problem, not a timing one — no rhythm change will fix it.

Catches work maybe one in five times.

Cause: Your distance from the wall varies between attempts.

Fix: Fix your start position precisely. Stand against the wall, then step away a consistent amount every time.

Left works, right does not.

Cause: Usually camera yaw rather than an actual input asymmetry.

Fix: Re-square the camera. If both walls are not symmetric on screen, one side will always be harder.

Techniques this drill trains

Drill 2 — The Single Catch FAQ

Why not just try to climb?

Because a failed climb gives you no information — you cannot tell which hop failed or why. A single catch is a clean experiment with one variable, and it is the only part of the technique you actually need to learn.

Twenty in a row seems excessive.

It is deliberately strict, because the goal is not to prove you can do it once. It is to make the contact automatic so that in a real climb you are not spending attention on it.

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