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.
Follow 5 Climbers: Try and Achieve Their 2012 Targets
As part of our training series of articles, we have decided to put the principles into action and see if we can help a group of climbers achieve their goals for the year. We have started by looking at things like their diet, body fat levels, current training structure, current climbing grade, strengths and weaknesses, [...]
Steve McClure on Training Power Endurance
As part of our training series this week we are going to focus on power endurance. Often overlooked by many climbers, training power endurance, is critical to getting you up most UK sport routes where the hard sections are usually no more than 10 to 30 moves. Steve McClure needs little introduction to most climbers. [...]
Turbo Charged New Year’s Training Resolutions
With the arrival of the New Year, now’s a perfect time to plan your rock climbing objectives for 2012 and develop a training program that will help achieve them. These objectives can be anything from doing your first E1, increasing your climbing grade from 7a to 7c or doing a specific route. Using a Scoring [...]
Dry Tooling At The Foundry, Sheffield
I’ve done plenty of seasons ice climbing over the last 13 years, I’ve done gully’s and ridges in Scotland and the Lakes, climbed Water Ice in Norway and in the Alps, but so far I’ve never done any of serious mixed climbing, sure I’ve torqued an icy crack on a buttress when the ice has [...]
Why you should always pay attention when belaying …
It’s happened to us all, we get distracted at the crag or the wall when we’re belaying & our concentration is no longer on the climber…but on the distraction. The majority of these instances end with us quickly switching our focus back to where it should be and no harm is done. Sometimes, we’re not [...]
Fear of Failing or Failing from Fear?
I am something of a failure. There, I said it. On a number of occasions in the last year I have failed to achieve something through fear, most notably last year, while in Snowdonia I failed to reach the summit of Tryfan. It wasn’t through lack of fitness, or desire to reach the top and [...]
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 – [...]
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