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Climbing makes the world a better place

“As a climber for nearly 25 years it is easy to settle into my comfort zone. With Joe’s personalised coaching sessions I have learned new techniques and tactics that helped me hone my skills to climb better. ”
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“Training with Joe and the Climbing Clinic helped me smash through a multi-year bouldering plateau and add three V-grades to my outdoor bouldering, with no signs of letting up. ”

Break through the plateau in your climbing and become the climber you have always wanted to be!

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Is chalking up holding ya back?
Is chalking up holding ya back?

This made me wonder, who was the first to stuff it into their pockets when tying in and taking it up the ropes with them?

Can you imagine how difficult it would be to chalk up if we had to stick our hands into our pockets 😂 That’s why chalk bags evolved.

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Hey incompetent climbers!
Hey incompetent climbers!

To change you must raise the bar! Step outside of what you have known before and push your limits outwards.

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On-Sight or In-Sight
On-Sight or In-Sight

The pursuit of in-sight is a common theme amongst top performing climbers. They seem to search out this space and learn from it. We can learn from them and search it out too.

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Climbing Training for Beginners!
Climbing Training for Beginners!

If you have never trained for climbing before or you have been climbing for less the two years this is the way to go! This short blog shows you the basics of how to balance your climbing time with your workout time to help you become the best climber you can be.

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The 80% secret - avoid climbing injury
The 80% secret - avoid climbing injury

So if we avoid injury can we climb for longer in life? Seems plausible.

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4 Crux Questions That Will Change Your Climbing Forever
4 Crux Questions That Will Change Your Climbing Forever

Asking these 4 questions changed my rock climbing forever! Without asking these questions my climbing would not have developed with any focus to where it is today. I am going to share these questions with you here. I hope they with help to focus you and your rock climbing…

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Can perspective make us better rock climbers?
Can perspective make us better rock climbers?

It is time for us all to reframe. So focus on removing the injury niggles, learn a new warm up routine, improve your core, make a distilled list of the routes you really want to climb. We have time, I hope we can see the opportunity and take action to grab it as it passes.

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Ways to make more of your climbing session : Hands
Ways to make more of your climbing session : Hands

I’ve been getting questions about sore hands. Have you been getting that sore hand feeling too?

This is the way climbing sessions often end, especially at an indoor wall. So how do you get the most out of your hands at the climbing wall? Here are 3 things I have learned about getting the most from the skin on your hands.

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Do you have interesting problems?
Do you have interesting problems?

The next time I go to the climbing wall I am going to try sequences of moves I don’t think I can do. I will report back. You could too…let me know how you get on…could be a tough challenge.

Experienced, high performing climbers have learned the art of failing fast, and this is one of the keys to their success. There is something in this we can all learn from. They have the ability to attempt a sequence of moves when failure is a very real potential outcome.

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Sweaty hands 😯 lots of sweaty hands... . 👈 Chalk on this side...shoe rubber on that side 👉 . Get the upper hand 🙌 . Get to know your holds! . . . . #climb #climbersofinstagram #climbinggear #climbingworldwide #climbingday #bouldering #bouldering_
I am going to get a fingerboard...and send it to one of you 👉 . I know lots of you are trying hard to train for climbing during the lockdown and some of you, or people you know, have no way to keep your fingers in shape at home. . So I am going to
Climbing walls are about so much more than climbing 🤜🤛 . #missingmondays...a big room full of friends 🙌 . Support the walls as best we can 👏👏👏 . If your missing the wall, or home alone and need a chat about climbing, dm me 🙂 . . . . #climbi
🦶 Foot, on the mark 🎯 @uprisingholds on point 🧐 Get the upper hand 🙌 Get to know your holds . . . . #climbingwall #climbing_photos_of_instagram #climbingnation #climbingphotography #climbersofinstagram #footwork #circle #climbinghold #orange #
Been beta testing out lots of warm up strategies over the past couple of weeks at Climbing Clinic HQ 🤸‍♂️🏃‍♀️ . Ideas from a range of climbing experts has lead to some interesting sessions 🤔 (Including the Dance to Trance warmup inspired b
Friday climbing psyche for you. A crimp! 🙌 Will you be out crimp spotting this weekend? I like it when setters use holds together*, like this little one next to a big one. I also like it when they find a crimp in the bottom of their bucket...and u
Working with @r.kenna as he prepared for overseas competition last year was a real joy. Great to be a part of his focus, effort and love of bouldering 🙌 Message me if you have a competition coming up and I'll see what I can do to help 🚀 . . . . #b
That's an easy 40% in the net 🚀 Get to it...write down your goals! Make it happen 🖋️🚀 . . . . #climbing #rockclimb #climb #climbingtraining #motivation #motivationalquotes #goals #goalsetting #goal #climbwellnz
Here's one to get us all psyched on a Monday 🚀 Found it on the recent UK tour with @chicksnchalk. Looks good to hold on to do you agree? 🙌 Great colour 🤩 and smooth shape. Anyone know the brand? Get the upper hand Get to know your holds 🙌 . .
Go get it 🚀 This is a move I imaginatively call 'the push down dyno' 😂 . How to gain more height when dynoing from a volume? Watch the lower hand 🖐️ . In both of these sequences the lead hand goes upwards towards the next hold while the lower han
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“In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyse them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them”
— Wolfgang Gullich