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Learn Your Own Body/Mind and Distractions

If you’re reading this, there is every likelihood you’re a climbing nerd; listening to interviews with the likes of Aidan Roberts on your commute to work, or perhaps re-watching something from the Mellow catalogue while you cook dinner. In these coveted climbing podcasts, the pros wil

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Pinches, love them or hate them, are becoming increasingly common with the new-school style volumes indoors, or the modern style tufa routes in Spain or Greece. Coming in all different shapes, sizes and orientations, from narrow flowstone ripples where you’re barely pinching anything at all, to wide grit slopers w

Ways To Improve Your Climbing Part 1 - Ayesha Khan

Climbing is a sport that keeps on giving. It is not uncommon to find climbers pursuing peak performance and sending their hardest well into their 30s and even 40s. But beyond physiological limitations, the opportunities to improve your strategy, mindset, focus, and tactical approach are infinite. I would argue this aspect of climbing is far

VERDON:

For me, the first three months of May were spent in the South of France- the main aim of this trip was to check out some multi-pitches in the Gorges du Verdon. Verdon came about

Climbing has long been the preserve of outsiders; the weirdos, the obsessives. But as the climbing industry caters for a broader market and mass appeal, walls and gyms today are becoming gentrified. Brand new brightly coloured holds, WiFi, yoga classes, posh coffee. Yet at the back of an industrial unit in Sheffield lies a reminder of a simpler age. A time when the aforementioned obsessives wanted

With unique holds specifically designed to train power, tension, finger strength and footwork on insecure moves, the MoonBoard is a great tool to improve your climbing. But it can be tricky to know where or how to start when you're first trying the MoonBoard. With the help of our very own Ben Moon, we put together this video to run through some of the basics.

One of the interesting things about being able to return to bouldering areas year on year, is the ability to see change. Change in the climbing environment. Change in the boulders. Change in the community, and of course change in yourself. For me, seeing the changes in myself, and the climbing areas often provide the most reflective moments of any trip. Ultimately this is what keeps me coming back

Moon Climbing athlete Martin Keller had a stellar chat with Steven Dimmitt over on the Nugget podcast. If you don't have time for the wisdom-filled 2 hours 46 minutes, we picked our favourite nugget of wisdom from Martin on how to train when you're struggling with motivation. Here's what Martin said:

1. Make it as easy as possible to train
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