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Spring Sends – Tom Newberry
Spring shock to start the sport season, or not! Each spring I start to think about getting fit and returning to rope climbing. I never find this easy though, the simplicity of bouldering keeps drawing me back. Which means despite good intentions of the odd day out in March/April it is usually July time until [...]
Raven Tor – Tom Bonnert
As the good weather is arriving I have been looking at opportunities to get outside on some real rock. All this training indoors can send someone crazy if they don’t get outside. Train booked and an early start on Sunday I was off down to chesterfield to meet Gracie Martin and Billy Ridal to head [...]
Attaching the Metolius Wood Grips Fingerboard to a Pull Up Bar
Due to a request on how I mounted my fingerboard to my pull up bar, I thought it would be easier to post on here how I did it. When I say “I” I clearly mean my better half, me and DIY do not work ! This is a photo of the over all fingerboard, [...]
Control Your Breathing…Control Your Fear: BlocFest Rocks RCC By Jen Wilby
“So much of our suffering - as individuals is caused by fear and fear is at the very root of our ego” When using the word “fear” in the climbing environment, most will talk about a fear of physical pain related to hurting themselves, falling off etc. Whilst physical pain is part of climbing (I’ll talk [...]
Rain Rain Go Away…by Madeleine Cope
There is nothing like a term spent indoors at university to get you dreaming about crisp winter days bouldering on the gritstone. Unfortunately, those crisp winter days I’d been waiting for have been few (actually I’m not sure there has any!) and far between. After numerous futile attempts to go climbing outdoors I realised that [...]
BlocFest takes over the Castle By Jen Wilby
The Castle is a magnificent victorian building towering over the Finsbury Park area of North London and on the 8th December it was host to the 2nd round of the amazing new BlocFest Bouldering Festival. BlocFest is 5 giant bouldering festivals led by world class boulder setters across the South of England, but its not [...]
Deep s*** soloing and a windy whip by Luke Tilley
The last month or so has been a bit sensitive in our house. We mused at the beginning of the year that we were all going to get really strong or really injured well at the moment the house is pretty injured but hopefully things are well on the mend. 2 months ago Ralph broke [...]
The Squad welcomes Evolv, Prana & Metolius
Last Friday 7th December, The Squad was pleased to open their boxes with their brand new uniform! Our kit consists of black shorts (and leggings for the fashion-conscious girls) made by Prana, silver chalk bags by Metolius and the latest models of Evolv footwear. With the Tshirt design competition now over, we expect that in [...]
San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily – Tesni & Celt Lloyd-Jones
Tesni Awel Lloyd-Jones 13Long time no update! Over the half term my family and I went climbing to Sicily for a good two weeks. We climbed on marble which is a type of limestone; some crags were sharp, yet some were smooth. While we were out in Sicily we climbed many overhangs, caves, a few slabs, but [...]
Winter Wonderland by Adam Jeeworth
Well its official, winter seems to be here. It’s not snowed yet but it’s cold and crisp, perfect conditions for getting out bouldering. I’ve had a few good days out recently walking, bouldering and enjoying the fresh air. I Headed to Trowbarrow last Thursday, bouldering with Vickers. It took me a while to warm up but ended [...]
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