Despite being constantly present and often the reason we fail, Rhythm is the most underrated of the Atomic Elements of Climbing Movement.

There’s A LOT of great information out there on how to climb harder. But it’s tough to sort through…

Short climbers are good at getting scrunchy, and tall climbers are good at climbing extended, right? Wrong.

One of the most common places things start to fall apart is at the very beginning of the move.

We know spending time on a finishing link is smart tactics for hard climbs. So why not apply the same concept to individual moves?

Learning when and how to compensate for a weakness is a skill. And skills need to be practiced.

Lowball boulders, while not as proud, can still teach us new movement, new ways to utilize tension, and force us into finding new techniques.

Training principles are important, but when they creep into performance, your climbing will suffer. Nearly every time.

As you level up in climbing, so do the challenges.

We have become collectors of dots. But there’s one major thing that happens when we connect dots that is entirely lost in mass dot collection: critical thinking.

Do you really have terrible willpower? Or are you surrounded by distractions and obstacles?

You have a climbing trip coming up. The rock is different. The style is different. Your pre-trip time is short and the number of days you’ll be climbing, even shorter…

Giving artificially low grades to climbs increases their perceived value for our training and development. The more something is mis-graded the more we naturally want to prioritize it.

Discussion around grades can be so polarizing that many of us avoid the topic.

Climbing starts off as this self-feeding cycle that has you wishing you could climb seven days a week. What happens when this cycle stops bringing improvement though?

Experienced climbers are incredible at lying to themselves.

Look, it’s important to not let things get overcomplicated. Hunting for elegant answers keeps us from getting bogged down with minutia. But when we take it too far, we lose sight of the bigger picture. 

There are an infinite number of lessons to learn within climbing.

Really hard climbing is always going to be hard.

Use strength to leverage every other aspect of your climbing, not replace them.