One of the most common questions we hear from people curious about climbing is, “Do I need upper body strength to climb?” The answer may surprise you: No, you don’t.
Achieving a goal is a tremendously motivating experience! Many goals, such as sending a hard project, require more than one kind of improvement in order to achieve. Tracking your sends is
Wondering what to gift the climber in your life? Whether you know more than you ever wanted to about where they climb and what they love about it or have
Choosing training problems is actually one of the simpler things to do in climbing. If you follow a few general rules, you will be an expert in no time. Rule
Short-Term Projects When projecting, consider both “short-term” and “long-term” projects. Problems you feel you can complete quickly (“short-term” projects) tend to teach different things than problems that take more time
Picking Your Project One of the best features of projecting is that you don’t need any special training to start. It’s as simple as picking a project and trying it.
How Do You Get Better at Climbing—Faster I’ve been a coach for over thirty years, and one of the most frequent questions I get from climbers of all abilities is:
How to Set Good Goals Based on Grades Perhaps the single most difficult thing for many of us to do is to set reasonable goals. We all have a tendency
The total number of possible sets in climbing is as large as your imagination. That being said, the bulk of them are variations off of a few common themes, or
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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
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