Board Meetings | Is Your Climbing Training Corrective or Constructive?
There's a fine line between reactive and proactive training. If you're constantly being corrective or reactive, you may want to rethink things.
Board Meetings | Our Favorite Finger Strength Protocols
Kris and Nate discuss their favorite protocols, both that they use themselves and in programming for their clients.
Board Meetings | A Better Way to Look at Climbing Movement
Kris presents his idea of the Atomic Elements of Climbing Movement to Nate and asks for his thoughts.
CONFLICTED | Boards as Climbing Movement Assessment Tools
If we want to assess our climbing movement skills over time, are the standardized boards the best option? We're conflicted…
Board Meetings | How Nate Assesses Climbing Movement Skills and How You Can Self-Assess
How do we decide where to focus our efforts when it comes to becoming a BETTER climber – rather than just a stronger one?
Board Meetings | How Much Climbing Skill Is Guaranteed With Experience?
If the more you climb, the better you get, then why do we all know that one guy that’s been climbing forever and still stuck at 5.10?
REWIND | Board Meetings: The Art of Learning Climbing
One of our favorites: Kris and Nate discuss ideas about our mental models for learning, and how we might apply these ideas to climbing.
Board Meetings | Indoor Climbing Lessons That You Should Take Outdoors (Bonus Episode)
There are lessons from the climbing in a gym that should absolutely be applied outdoors in order to become a better climber faster.
Board Meetings | Outdoor Climbing Lessons You Should Take Indoors
There are aspects of climbing outside that lead us into learning specific things that we don't necessarily find as easily indoors.
Board Meetings | Improved Learning from Podcasts, Books, and Videos
With more and more information out there, it would seem that we can learn faster and better. But that isn't always the case.
Board Meetings | Where We Go Wrong When We Get Training Right
You nailed the training and showed up stronger. Still, things went wrong.
Board Meetings | Lowpointing: The Most Overlooked Climbing Tactic
You know what highpointing is, and definitely redpointing, but what about lowpointing?
CONFLICTED | Kneebarring on Boulders
Does kneebarring hard boulders make you stronger? We're conflicted.
Board Meetings | What Pro Climbers Can Learn From Taylor Swift
Whether a pro, writer, filmmaker or coach, Taylor has some advice for you.
Board Meetings | BONUS EPISODE | Things That Should Affect Grades But Don't
In an ideal world, grades would be objective and we’d have some universal formula for how they’re decided. But we don't live in an ideal world.
Board Meetings | The Pros and Cons of Replicas
Watching Will Bosi and Aiden Roberts work on the Burden of Dreams replica is fun, but is it valuable for the rest of us?
BOARD MEETINGS | The Art of Learning Climbing
A way to think about improvement based on ideas from Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning.
Episode 71: Board Meetings | Goal Setting
Let’s talk goal setting. Not resolutions; goals. Different animals altogether.
Episode 68: Board Meetings | I Wish I Knew Now What I Knew Then
It would be amazing if we kept all our attributes forever, but the reality is that we sometimes stop doing some of the things that made us good to begin with.
Episode 65: Board Meetings | Five Minute Fingers
The interwebs are going crazy over Andrew Bisharat’s new miracle hangboard program “Five Minute Fingers” and folks have asked for our opinion.