Posts Tagged ‘Climbing Techniques’

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, [...]

New Climbing Walls Essentials DVD from The BMC

Check out this trailer for the latest DVD from the BMC. Climbing Wall Essentials is a skills and techniques guide written by experts for climbers of all abilities. I’ll try to get hold of a review copy and give you some more information. Though if it’s like other BMC training videos it should be top [...]

Improve your climbing – Masterclass with Neil Gresham (part 1)

Those of you who follow Rock Climbing UK on Twitter or Facebook will have no doubt heard me raving about this video recently, I promised a full review, so here it is. The Masterclass is split between 2 DVDs: Part 1 – Techniques and training Part 2 – Skills and tactics for sport and trad [...]

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 [...]

Climbing book review – Training for Climbing by Eric J Horst

I really want to get better at climbing. I’ve become obsessed with improvement. I even gave up my previous job to allow me more time to better my climbing. I’m not terrible at it, but I’m not great either. Like most people I started climbing and enjoyed rapid improvement until I reached a sticking point. [...]

How to tie off a belay plate

There will occasionally be times when belaying when you’re going to need both hands free, or to escape the system completely. This video shows you how to safely tie off the belay plate then release to belay again.

Basic climbing techniques: Hand holds ‘Slopers’

Week 2 of 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. We’re covering a hold you’ll need to become well acquainted with if you plan to climb in the Peak District on grit stone crags such as Stanage Edge.

Basic climbing techniques: Hand holds, the ‘jug’

For any of you out there who are new to climbing, we’re going to be providing you with a series of videos to illustrate some climbing basics.

We’re going to start with hand holds, what they’re called and how to do use them. This week we’re covering ‘jugs’.

Lead climbing mini course, week 4 – Controlled falling

Hi all, welcome to week 4 of our lead climbing mini course. This is the week that everyone dreads… falling!!!

Lead climbing mini course, week 3 – can I reach that quickdraw?

After our recent catastrophic loss of data, we have re-shot the videos we lost. So a little later than scheduled, here’s week 3 of our lead climbing mini course. This week we’ll be showing you a useful technique for establishing whether or not you can properly reach your quick-draw to clip.