Archive for the ‘Climbing Techniques’ category
Let’s face it, we all want to climb well. The feeling of nailing a hard route is second to none. To achieve consistent results, it’s essential to learn those climbing techniques, do that training, eat and sleep right. Here’s where we share the knowledge to help you get there. If you have climbing techniques, diet tips or training advice that you would like to share, drop us an email at: gareth(at)rockclimbinguk.co.uk.
An interview with Lucy Creamer
Lucy Creamer, Britain’s most accomplished female climber, needs little introduction. Since being introduced to climbing back in the late 1980s, Lucy has dedicated her life to climbing and has excelled across multiple disciplines, with competition wins and notable ascents in trad, sport, bouldering and ice climbing. Now sponsored by Marmot, DMM, Scarpa/Grivel, Lucy also shares [...]
10 Tips to Improve Your Bouldering
This article won’t make you improve your bouldering out of all proportion, overnight, but it might help you to start the process of improvement. I recently found myself in a bit of a rut with my climbing, a bit of a sticking point in my development. If that sounds like a familiar feeling to you, [...]
An Interview with Neil Gresham
Regular readers of RCUK will no doubt be familiar with my gushing praise of this man’s work. I reviewed Neil Gresham’s Masterclass DVDs back in May. Neil Gresham is famed for his climbing ability across a range of disciplines from rock and ice to deep water soloing. He is one one of the few climbers [...]
A Life Less Ordinary – One Man’s Journey to a Career on Rock
A door to another world; an epiphany; a light turned on – I’ve used all the cliches over the years. But however it’s described my light-bulb moment was being taken climbing with the scouts when I was 12. For someone who’d never had anything in particular to focus on climbing was the full package – [...]
Dry Tooling – Evil crag wrecking practice or legitimate training technique?
We’ve had a long cold winter, but the snow and ice are long gone and for ice climbers looking to keep their arms and axes synchronised and to practice their figures of nine and double hand swaps, dry tooling is the answer. The sport has also grown in popularity over recent years and is now [...]
Learn to listen to your body, a cautionary tale
I’ve just found out that I cannot climb for about 4 – 6 weeks. It all started on the last Bank Holiday Monday, I was climbing at our local crag and trying a new route (Stone Farm Crack, Stone Farm, Sussex) and I was working on the start of the route. I was trying to [...]
12 week progression to insane grip strength – guest post by Paul Wilson
I learned from Charles Poliquin that you should be able to train your forearms daily. If we were unable to use them daily – we wouldn’t have any mechanics to fix our cars. Right? Hey guys, my name is Paul Wilson and I am locally known in the West Midlands for my fat loss programmes [...]
Climbing techniques – The Rock-over and ‘Sit in’
Firstly, allow me to apologise for the appalling quality of this video. I do plan to replace it within the next few days, I just needed to find a clip to demonstrate this technique. Many of routes I have been climbing in Singapore require the use of this move. The locals I have been climbing [...]
The 3 B’s of climbing technique – guest post by Mark Reeves
As a outdoor pursuits instructor and climbing coach, I am often found at a crag teaching anyone from young children in a few hours’ climbing ‘taster session’ right through to a week long course aimed at developing a climber’s skills and techniques. Whatever the course I nearly always include something that I would describe as [...]
Basic climbing techniques: Hand holds ‘Open-handed Crimp’
Continuing with our climbing basics series, designed for those of you out there who have just got into climbing. We’re continuing with hand holds this week. This time we’re covering the open handed crimp. What is a crimp? Crimps are small but (usually) positive edges upon which you can only fit the tips of your [...]
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