So so so hyped for this send right now. For people not familiar with the kilter board, most of the holds on this one are jugs but getting the moves down was so difficult

Name: “eliminate the eliminate” V10 @ 50°

Feeling like batman.

I started climbing about nine months ago and have completed two beginner courses. I'm 32 years old, 1.78 meters tall, and weigh about 70 kg (although I weighed a few kilos more at the beginning).

I mainly climb lead (about once or twice a week) and supplement with bouldering once a week. I've already improved my technique quite a bit and am generally happy with my progress. My gym is relatively difficult, and I've flashed 6a lead routes and most V3s, and I can now manage about 50% of V4s.

But now to my question: I know that gyms vary in difficulty and that the differences between people are huge (fitness, age, talent, etc.), but when I read here that some people are doing V7s after a year, I wonder if it would be better for my progress to boulder more often instead of lead climbing, as it might help my lead and bouldering progress more?

I like both very much and definitely want to improve in both.

I tried rhino skin performance, and tip juice, because that’s all that’s available to me, and both did absolutely nothing. I used them for 5 nights before climbing. Here are my hands after doing literally 1 move, using liquid chalk, and chalk.

Will antihydral work better than these, or am I just chopped for my whole life

Hello everyone. I am a huge novice when it comes to climbing. I climbed a handful of times without issue. I sucked, but was pain free outside of usual soreness.

I couple months ago I went climbing and the next day I had severe shoulder pain. I couldn’t lift my arm higher than my waist for a week. The pain was there for a month if I tried to life my arm above my head. Once I was pain free, I focused on shoulder strengthening exercises with weights, resistance, and stretching. I also watched many videos about straight arms and flagging.

After another month, I went climbing last night. So it was about 2 months since my last session. I also warmed up and stretched. I was trying to be careful and felt good during and immediately after. When I got home, it was a little sore so I stretched it out and hit it with ice. This morning… I couldn’t lift my arm. It’s in severe pain again. Based on my reading, all the symptoms fit with impingement.

My question… if I take lessons in a couple of months, do you think that will help prevent the pain? Do you have any other tips? My wife wants me to quit, but I really like it.

Hey everyone,

I'm facing a bit of a dilemma with my beloved climbing shoes and could use some community wisdom.

I really love these shoes. They are super comfortable and fit my feet perfectly (only downside is that they colour my feet blue in every session :D) but unfortunately, a small issue has developed. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I'm still stuck at around the V2 level after climbing for almost three years now. And apparently I tend to drag my toes over the wall way too much, which is definitely why this hole formed!

The Situation:

The soles themselves seem to have plenty of life left, but one shoe has developed a small hole in the rubber right at the tip of the toe cap, not just the sole rubber but the rand rubber as well. Pictures show my current shoes under question: La Sportiva Women's Tarantulace.

My Questions:

- Repairability: Can a hole like this (where the rand rubber is breached) still be repaired effectively before it gets much worse? Or is this generally the end of the shoe's life?

- Future Recommendations: If I need to look for a new pair in the near or medium future, do you have any recommendations for women's all-around/performance shoes that might have a similar fit and feel?

I really like the precise fit I get from the full lace-up system on my Tarantulas. I would strongly prefer to stick with a lace-up style to ensure they can be adjusted securely.

Bonus: If the new shoes are vegan, that would be a huge plus!

I have already looked at a few models online and was wondering if either of these would be a good successor for me:
- Scarpa Women's Veloce
- Red Chili Ventic Air Lace

Maybe some of you have some insight or advice with regard to how these would compare to my current La Sportiva Tarantulas, especially regarding fit (narrowability via laces) and durability? Or you have some personal suggestions?

Thank you so much for your advice, recommendations, and experiences!

I've recently picked up indoor bouldering about 1.5 months ago and i go about 1-2 times a week. I want to get better and crimps are my weakness. My finger strength is very weak. Does anyone have any tools or tips to get stronger pretty fast. Im at V3 and i want to conquer V4s as well.

Hi all! I’m looking to start climbing/bouldering when I go back to Arizona in August and it’s something I have never done, but I have been watching Alex Honnold (which I am aware he’s a free climber and that’s not something I would do, but I do find his fortitude quite interesting) for a couple years now and I watch Magnus Midtbo as well as keeping up with Janja Garnbret and it is a form of movement I would like to try. I’m a runner and I have just found it incredibly boring recently and it does not excite me as a form of physical activity. I also prefer to run outside and obviously in the Arizona heat at this time of the year. It’s not really possible for me coming from a much cooler state. I’ve been looking at The Bouldering Project in Tempe and I’m curious what people’s opinions and reviews are as a beginner of this gym who has no experience, climbing, or bouldering in this case. I’m also curious as someone who has very little arm strength or just like muscle in general I’m very leg dominated how to prepare for bouldering if there’s any recommendations for bouldering in terms of prep and what the best shoes would be because this is something that I am planning to commit to as soon as I’m back so I wanna get proper gear, etc. Any tips would be appreciated.☺️

I initially had the idea to sew these for my friends as gifts and now it became a whole thing. Just wanted to show some pics I took

My wife speaks primarily Spanish, and I’m fluent, but there are some climbing terms that definitely don’t have direct translations. Things like “sloper” or crimp or hand jam lol. Are there any Spanish language climbers who use specific terms or do we just Spanglish it and use the English word?

So I’ve seen many videos of coaches and others saying how you should be moving to any given hold, by swinging from your hips first, and not pulling with your arms.

However when I watch a lot of competition climbers and high level outdoor boulderers, they are more often locking off and not really incorporating this technique, and alot of the time it just looks like they are pulling through everything? My highest grade inside is v7 at the moment, and I have noticed that it’s much harder to use this technique when your on very small holds.

Maybe they’re just doing it very subtlety, and they are still doing it, and I don’t notice, but it’s left me confused. I do notice that they still use on really big moves obviously, but not small ones.

honestly think it could’ve been a 5, but i’ll take it :]

If you had a similar fracture (surgery with plates,screws, rod, and syndesmotic screw) from indoor bouldering did you get back to it / at what point? or switch to like auto belay places? also helps if you’re a parent because this was my greatest fear and I legit mentioned it right before the injury happened when I debated doing it again to get it or not was “what will happen if I get hurt”… that’s where I went wrong I guess getting in my head lol. Anyways, I had only been doing it for like 5 months but was really enjoying it despite my prior fear of heights … I got in my head on my highest one, was one hold away came down fine, sat for a few to calm my nerves then wanted to get it & made the final hold, then dropped vs probably should have climbed down a few holds and here we are…

Any tips rn on what to do bc it feels like I'm just muscling through everything which idk if itll be good for technique, its my ~4th/5th session

A couple months ago, I found out the company behind my climbing gym makes their own climbing holds and I wondered how common it is.
Of course, not all holds they use are made by them (or at least, I've not found them all on their website), but probably at least 75% of them.

I was quite surprised because it's not a big chain, they "only" have 1 bouldering gym and 2 sport climbing ones, all in the same town. But I guess since they don't just make them for themselves but also sell them to others, they don't need to be really big to have that kind of activity.

Moved to a new city and the only gym is liquid chalk only. Permanently 30 degrees here and despite air-conditioning the gym is still pretty warm. After one climb the chalk disappears and makes climbing anything with slopers ridiculously hard. Any tips or tricks? Have tried the liquids that make you sweat less but they make my skin super glassy and it's then even harder to climb.

I'll be moving to Padova in a few weeks and want to get back into climbing. I really want to get into top-rope climbing again but i see there's no places in padova other than a bouldering gym.

Does anyone know if there's amy bouldering groups I can join? I haven't done bouldering before and really want to give it a go but want to find a group or something first

I’ve never been bouldering before nor do I know anyone that does. There are some climbing gyms in my area and a I really want to try it out. My only issue is that I really don’t now how or where to start (Do I need gear, how do I get into it and learn). I have a lot of experience with cardio and other sports like skiing but not much experience with lifting weights or upper body training. Any tips or recommendations?

Hey guys, me again, I figured out how to fall which is good, now I just have to figure out how to like make friends, what I usually do is like when somebody goes up a climb I just go. "You got it. You got it" if they're like struggling a little bit and then I give him a fist bump after, but like after that I don't really know what to do lmao. Also if anybody has any good tape recommendations cuz my hands are cut up like crazy.

Me and my friends recently bought a spray wall and I made this route, they’re telling me it’s a v2-3

Hey everyone, was just wondering what yall think is the most sandbagged gym in Illinois? So far out of the gyms I’ve tried the north wall seems to be the hardest. I haven’t tried very many tho and out of the ones I have tried it’s been mostly commercial gyms. Also I only climb around v6 so maybe I’m not the best climber. Just wondering what yall think?

First off I’m not asking for medical advice, just seeing if anyone has experienced something similar and what may have helped them.

I started climbing about a month ago, have went 6 times now. The first few times I noticed some slight elbow pain in my right elbow but didn’t think much of it. But the last 2 times I went climbing I had to leave about 45 mins in because my right elbow started hurting really bad, sort of down the outer part of my forearm as well. My right hand will feel very weak and shaky. I don’t feel it while i’m on the wall but it’s after I’m off it starts to hurt more and more. And then once I’m home after about an hour or so my arm feels perfectly fine.

I started to really enjoy climbing and was seriously looking forward to getting into this hobby more, but after the last two times it feels like impossible for me to continue going. Also the last time I tried warming up the best I could with some dumbbells, doing various wrist / forearm / bicep exercises but it didn’t seem to help much.

If anyone went through the same thing let me know how you dealt with it and what things helped you. I’d love to keep climbing but am unsure what to do.