The Missing Pillar of Climbing Training
“Conventional” climbing training - whatever that means - seems to frame all training using two variables: volume and intensity. “How much” and “how hard” - adjust these dials in the right proportion, and you’re promised maximum gains. But something’s missing from this basic picture…
How to Approach Your First Go on a Project
Most climbers have a “burn-not-learn” approach on their first go of a project - trying too hard, and retaining too little. Here's how to use your first session to learn efficiently, preserve skin, and send quicker.
Good Tactics → Better Questions
Tactics have a lot more to do with asking better questions than having the right answers.
The Golden Bullet
The 2nd ascent of a forgotten or overlooked route on some of the New River Gorge’s best stone.
DON’T Trust the process?
Climbers just about deify “the process” - praising it, preaching it, but never really defining it. What is it? What does it mean?
Defining Terms - Why Most People Fail in Their Training
“The feeling of effortlessness is so enticing and addictive. We send our first big project, and when it finally happens, it feels easy. It feels…perfect.
And so begins a false correlation between ease and perfection.”
Who is Behind Vector Climbing?
How a life spent climbing, and four years spent coaching - from 5.9 to 5.14 - led to the creation of Vector Climbing.