Well, it’s been a year since I started climbinghouse.com. It started with a few tips on training, and has become much more. Over time, we welcomed many great contributors to the site, and I am thankful for them. Thank you, the reader, for allowing us to share with you.
I’ve learned so much in the last year: html, photo skillz, video editing, writing, etc. I look forward to continuing this journey with you! If you have any constructive criticism let me know…
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Kris showed me a great little trick for multipitch climbing: Take a photo of the topo with your digital camera, and leave the book in the car. Most cameras can zoom in on the picture good enough to read. One less thing to carry.
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The first time I heard this beat box was on a UNL climbing club trip to St. Louis. Okay, enough reminiscing.
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I’ve been climbing at the Boulder Rock Club, one of the leading climbing gyms in the country, but nothing’s perfect. I recently submitted some suggestions on how they can improve, paraphrased below:
1. Buy/ install/ relocate hangboard(s). The BRC has one old, small hangboard installed in the weight room. Many of the edges on the board are too sharp to comfortably train on. Having the board in the weight room can lead to a lot of chalk in an enclosed space with a treadmill- bad combination!
2. Provide a weight belt/ vest for training and climbing. Increased weight is an effective way to increase strength, reference training expert Eric Horst’s HIT program.
3. Set more hard routes (5.12?) on flat walls. This hearkens back to our days at the UNL wall. A hard route on a flat wall is fun, and more finger intensive than a hard route on a steep wall, thus good training for ultimate finger strength.
I’ll let you know if anything comes of this.
I love reading this stuff – all the great accounts of amazing routes and good people makes me want to get good enough to keep up with you guys. Keep it up.
Thanks man, glad you like it.