Over the first few years of climbing the process can be pretty simple, spend more time climbing and eventually you will progress, there comes a point where this curve flattens and we reach a plateau, a breaking point or a shortage of available time to continue to increase time at the wall. So what now? 

I want you to imagine two climbers, and see if I can put an idea in your head about how they will perform on the wall. They are of equal strength and technical skill. We are considering their language and body language to predict their performance. 

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Pumping out on a project is caused by the level of fatigue in your forearms surpassing the level of your work capacity.

A serial climb hopper is someone who has numerous projects on the go, they often get to 1 sticky point on a climb and they get frustrated, after a few more attempts they move on to another climb, rinse and repeat.

Step one…. Brush the Volumes! And 5 technique tips.

A vicious cycle this one and it's fuelled by 1 thing: ego.

Am I good enough to compete? People who fear this question get stuck in a cycle: train harder until something goes wrong > don’t compete > comp announced > train harder…

Committing to certain moves on the wall can be challenging, when you hit that point of fear or feeling stuck. We are going to offer a bit of perspective on this and some tips to work through it.

At some point during our climbing we start to be introduced to holds that are not positive, they don’t have an in-cut section for your fingers to grip onto. Slopers are all about body position and even tension being applied between hands and feet.

Sometimes you may be strong enough to finish your projects but can’t quite make it. If you have good projecting principles in place and you get to the point of doing all the moves then what is the issue?

It is a tricky thing to choose what you should be spending your time on.

Often times we can do most of the moves on a climb but there are 1 or 2 moves that elude us. So how do we approach these?

Finger strains or sprains are usually caused by a few things: climbing too hard moves while fatigued, lack of finish position control, too much repetition on a certain hold type, or the level of effort required to hold a hold exceeds the level of condition of your fingers.