Besides your favorite pair of climbing shoes, The Crash Pad is the most important equipment to have when bouldering outside. Here's how to choose one.
How to choose a bouldering crash pad
Climbing shoe review: Tenaya Mastia
The new Tenaya Mastia is a top-of-the-line, aggressive, performance oriented climbing shoe. But how does it compare to the Oasi? Read the full article for an in-depth review.
What gear do I need for bouldering?
Climbing in the gym is simple. Just bring your wallet and you're good to go! When bouldering outside you need some additional gear. This is a guide for all the essential gear needed to keep you safe and enjoy a day of bouldering outside.
How to choose a climbing rope
With all the different brands, hundreds of climbing rope models, multiple thicknesses and lengths, how do you know which rope to choose as your first climbing rope? The purpose of this article is to help you understand the basics of choosing a suitable rope fo YOUR climbing needs by narrowing it down from the bunch. When choosing a climbing rope, there are a few things you need to know.
Climbing shoe review: Five Ten Aleon
(last edited: Feb 5th, 2020) The Five Ten Aleon is a brand new, moderately aggressive shoe designed for hard bouldering and sport climbing. It is the first major design by the Swiss climbing legend Fred Nicole. If you don’t know who Fred Nicole is, check out THIS Wikipedia page and THIS nice article by Climbing.com. …
Etiquette for climbing outdoors
When climbing first became a ”thing”, back in the day, there weren’t much indoor gyms to climb at. Most climbers started climbing outside with ”mentors”, more experienced climbers. Etiquette for climbing outdoors was passed down by word of mouth. And back then, the climbing community was not nearly as diverse in styles and numbers as …
Climbing shoe review: Scarpa Instinct (Lace)
This is a in-depth review of the Scarpa Instinct Lace climbing shoe. The first shoe that I ever bought from Scarpa, was the Instinct VS. I bought a super tight size that performed really well on almost all kinds of terrain. The only down side of the Instinct VS was that inside the shoe, there …
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Why wear a climbing helmet
Wearing a helmet while rock climbing is still not as popular as wearing one while doing other sports. Why? And what does Chris Sharma have to do with all this?
How to start climbing outdoors
It is estimated that between 1000 to 1500 are trying climbing for the first time EVERY day. And this is ONLY in the U.S. Think about it. Every day. That’s alot. True or not, but it seems that rock climbing is BOOMING! Olympic sport and all. Hundreds of new climbing gyms are opened across the …
How to choose climbing shoes for kids
Children are natural-born climbers. Who hasn’t seen a kid climb up a tree, a big rock or a jungle gym at a play ground? I have three kids and it feels that they are constantly trying to climb on things. It wasn’t one or two times that I was scratching my head (after having a …