from Mountains and Water
In the last couple of weeks two ads have appeared, both with essentially the same theme. The first is a short video for Verve made by Carlo Traversi , elite boulderer and routesetter at the Spot, and the other is a co-production of Organic , Pusher and Revolution . (Full Disclosure: I have received gear from both Organic and Verve and am definitely a fan. I am a sponsored climber for Moon Climbing .) Here's the video: The Philosophy Of Verve from Carlo Traversi on Vimeo . Here's the ad, described by Clark
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from Online Climbing Coach
If you wanted to learn how to mess up your training and stay as crap as possible at climbing, or better still injured and disillusioned with your sport, you could learn any of these five habits that you’ll see in fellow climbers all the time. Guaranteeing failure to improve at climbing is a lot easier that guaranteeing success, which is why so many people manage it with the following: 1. Wait until you are tired . Slower reactions and lazy movements will add more peak forces on working tendons and ...
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from Kev Shields Climbing
Since I took up climbing ,and in particular soloing, I've been asked "why"?? I've spoke a bit about why I climb but I've never really thought about the real base reasons why I chose climbing over any other 'sport'. There are quite a few reasons I can think of offhand. I never really gelled with any mainstream sports at school and increasingly played truant to head to the moors and glens surrounding my hometown preferring long walks to long division. I always knew I was different to everyone else around me
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from The Adventure Blog
The search is on for the Ultimate Athlete as a new competition is ramping up for next year, that will pit 24 people against one another in a host of different activities to determine who is the greatest athlete around. In June of 2010, the men and women who are selected to compete in the Ultimate Athlete challenge will descend on Portland Oregon, where they will take part in more than twenty different sports. The activities will range all over the Pacific Northwest, including the Columbia Gorge, Mt. Hood,
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
We just got back from Devon and back to real life. Some folks had some more questions about the Walk of Life and my blogging about it. Some folk asked me about the protection I used, specifically suggesting that maybe I found the route easier than it’s suggested grade because I had more trust in the sliding nuts that James used on his recently downgraded routes. Actually I didn’t use any at all on the Walk of Life, just standard wires and friends. Folk also picked up on my appeal not to make a big deal
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