Posts Tagged ‘bouldering’
Moon Original School Holds
I have been in need of adding some new holds to my board for a while, to allow me to start to create some new and harder problems. After looking around I decided to try the Moon School Room holds set. A single set costs £100, which includes 40 handholds and 10 footholds. This represents [...]
Video: Webb-Parsons Comes to UK
Our Fine Land lays claim to some of the finest climbing in the world, and is regarded by most as the birthplace of modern mountaineering as we know it. Over the hundred and fifty or so years of climbing history that we have accumulated, the UK has received visits from some of the greatest & [...]
Winter Bouldering – Get Your Psyche On!
Days seem impossibly short. Nights grow uncomfortably longer. Trees shed their proud, summer plumage, in a gentle acquiescence. A steady flow of down jackets, long-sleeve base-layers & a multitude of brightly coloured knitted hats converge around rocks like monks at a shrine. Winter is upon us. It seems that here in the UK, the weather [...]
FACING THE ROCK – Trailer
Not To Be Taken Away has to be one of the most aesthetic lines of any climbing discipline, on any rock type, in any part of the world. The beauty of this beast is the long, steep ramp that traverses one of the best know grit stone blocks, the Grand Hotel at Stanage. It is [...]
A thing of legend…
What happens when you put three 8C boulderers, a double world champion & a rising star in a room full of the hardest competition blocs ever set … each pitted against the rest to be crowned the best of the La Sportiva Legends? You get one hell of a competition, that’s what! The ‘La Sportva-Legends [...]
The Great Rock Over Winter League (GROWL) – Round 4
This winter Rock Over Climbing will be holding the Great Rock Over Winter League The G R O W L! As with everything that we do, this league will be a little bit different…. As well as being a cumulative bouldering league, we aim to make each round a fantastic stand alone event. There will [...]
The Great Rock Over Winter League (GROWL) – Round 3
This winter Rock Over Climbing will be holding the Great Rock Over Winter League The G R O W L! As with everything that we do, this league will be a little bit different…. As well as being a cumulative bouldering league, we aim to make each round a fantastic stand alone event. There will [...]
The Great Rock Over Winter League (GROWL) – Round 2
This winter Rock Over Climbing will be holding the Great Rock Over Winter League The G R O W L! As with everything that we do, this league will be a little bit different…. As well as being a cumulative bouldering league, we aim to make each round a fantastic stand alone event. There will [...]
The Great Rock Over Winter League (GROWL)
This winter Rock Over Climbing will be holding the Great Rock Over Winter League The G R O W L! As with everything that we do, this league will be a little bit different…. As well as being a cumulative bouldering league, we aim to make each round a fantastic stand alone event. There will [...]
Indoor Competitions. Not Just for Super Heroes
Ever seen the adverts for your local walls bouldering competition? My regular venue, The Climbing Depot has just finished it’s summer bouldering league. The basics were 30 problems from very easy (V0) to very hard (V11) with one month to complete as many as you can in the least number of goes, the quicker you [...]








