Drill 5Hard⏱ Several sessions across a week or more

Drill 5 — The Sustained Climb

Extend from two catches to six or more without the rhythm degrading. The drill where stamina and attention become the limiting factor rather than technique.

Pass criteria

Five consecutive six-catch climbs with a clean landing on the exit ledge.

Before you start

Drill 4 completed — you know your reliable width

Setup

Work at or just below your reliable width from Drill 4. Not at your ceiling.
Find a tall shaft rather than a short gap. Learn To Wall Hop Obby and Stage Chart for Wallhop Beginners both provide graded shafts.

The drill

1
Three catches, ten times
Extend the two-hop to three. Ten consecutive clean runs before moving on.
2
Four catches, ten times
Add one more. Notice whether the failures cluster at a particular hop — usually the third or fourth, where attention starts to drift.
3
Six catches, five times
Now the climb is long enough that you cannot hold the whole thing in conscious attention. This is the transition from executing to trusting.
4
Deliberately stop mid-climb
Run a six-hop climb, but decide beforehand to stop at hop four. Being able to abort cleanly is what lets you bail on a bad attempt instead of falling from the top.
5
Add the exit
On successful climbs, release both strafe keys on the last jump and land on the ledge. Pressing a direction on the exit is the most common way a completed climb still fails.
6
Climb to a target height, not a hop count
Finally, stop counting. Pick a ledge and climb to it. Counting was scaffolding; the skill is finished when you no longer need it.

Troubleshooting

Failures always happen around the same hop number.

Cause: Attention drift, not technique. The early hops are automatic and the later ones are not yet.

Fix: Drill runs that are exactly one hop longer than your reliable count, repeatedly, rather than attempting full climbs.

You reach the top and then fall off.

Cause: Holding a strafe key through the final jump.

Fix: Release both direction keys once your head clears the top. The last jump only needs to go up.

The rhythm degrades as the climb gets higher.

Cause: Hop intervals lengthen as you gain height, and a memorised rhythm stops matching.

Fix: Return to reacting to each catch rather than following a rhythm. The interval is not constant and never was.

Techniques this drill trains

The Wallhop

Insane

Climb a vertical shaft by alternating strafe inputs between two facing walls while holding jump. The technique the whole obby exists to teach.

Jump Chaining (Holding Space)

Easy

Holding the jump key makes the character jump again the instant it registers a landing. This is the engine behaviour that every wall technique is built on top of.

Corner Hop

Hard

Climb the corner where two walls meet at right angles by alternating between faces. Easier than a pure wallhop because corners give clearer contact.