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Metolius Simulator 3D Finger Board for Climbing Improvement
With the Spring monsoon and the resulting wet rock, I have decided to put another four weeks of hard training in. Having trained hard over the last few months, I had tailed my training off with the intention of peaking in May. Unfortunately like many other climbers at the moment I have peaked with no [...]
Andi Turner on Gritstone Climbing
Boreal have arranged for us to chat to their team climber Andi Turner. Best known as the BMC access rep for Staffordshire and all round gritstone expert he had made numerous early repeats of gritstone E7′s as well as putting up new routes of his own. His favourite area is his adopted home of Staffordshire [...]
Ryan Pasquill on Training for Climbing
Bigstone the UK agency for Arc’teryx, Smartwool and Five Ten have arranged for us to interview their team climber Ryan Pasquill. Ryan is best known for his auditious E8 flashes of Countdown to Disaster, End of the Affair, Gaia and Cornelius. His most recent gritstone test piece Gerty Berwick E9 7a solved one of Gritstones [...]
Sling Training for Climbing – Update
Following on from an early review we did of Jungle Sports sling training equipment, I really needed to try and understand how it could improve my climbing. The plan was to put a four week block of hard sling training in between two trips to the same bouldering location in Spain and then see if [...]
Nick Bullock on Gogarth North Stack
Boreal have arranged for us to interview their sponsored climber, Nick Bullock. Having given up his full-time job in 2003, Nick has been chasing his dream climbing and mountaineering all over the world. While he is probably best known for his impressive ascents in the greater ranges, Nick’s traditional climbing portfolio would make the arm [...]
Tom Randall on Training for Crack Climbing
Beta Climbing Designs, the UK importer for Sterling Ropes, have arranged for us to interview their team climber Tom Randall. Tom, along with Pete Whittaker are best known as the Wide Boyz! Tom has worked extremely hard over the last two years in a cellar in Sheffield honing his crack climbing skills. His specialising in this form [...]
DMM Alpha Trad Quickdraws Review
Reviewing quickdraws is one of those areas which are difficult as they have been evolving over the last 30 years to reach the excellent levels of design we have today. There are now so many good products on the market, climbers tend to take these pieces of vital equipment for granted. I recently received a [...]
Tom Bonnert on his Climbing Training
Beyond Hope, the distributors of Evolv, PrAna and Metolius have put us in touch with one of their sponsored climbers Tom Bonnert. Although Tom is only 18, he has now been climbing for 11 years. In the past four years he has taken his climbing more seriously and moved onto specifically training for competitions. Over [...]
Mina Leslie-Wujastyk on her Bouldering Training
Beta Climbing Designs, the UK importer for Sterling Ropes, have arranged for us to interview Mina Leslie-Wujastyk. Mina is best known for her bouldering achievements, having successfully climbed multiple Font 8a’s, and as a key member of the British Bouldering Team. The winter of 2011/12 is the first time she has adopted a carefully structured [...]
Sling Training for Climbing Improvement
Following on from the interview we did with Magnus Midtbo, I was contacted by the sling training experts at Jungle Sports to see if I would like to review their sling training equipment. Due to various injuries over the years, I am one of those climbers who have strong fingers, but poor upper body strength. [...]
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