Disruption of finger flexor pulleys in rock climbers: prevalence, diagnosis and strategies for rehabilitation. NB: This article was formerly...

Peter commented on my last post: “What about the fact that some (many? most?) climbers are in this game for the sheer fun of it? It seems t...

I just did some interviews about my climbing for various publications. The questions, in one way or another, ask “what is your secret”? It’s...

More climbers these days are starting to take advice from coaches, or from mentors among their peers, either directly or in written form. Gr...

Climbers I’ve coached are sometimes quite dramatically split on their ability to try hard. A lot of them can move well on the rock, have fin...

Some of you commented from my last post asking if you could use light climbing as active rest between hard climbing days, and how to judge t...

I have been reading many books recently in research for a book I am writing. Reading texts on different aspects of professional sport, and t...

My sponsors Scarpa have several major new rockshoe models coming through this year. First up of these is the instinct slipper . Trying the...