Sport Climbing Skills

Climbing your best and most efficiently isn't just about using your hands and feet.

How do you train specifically for your route? There are tactics to employ both on and off route.

This versatile hitch has a myriad uses. Here's yet another one.

Flash pump is real and terrible and can ruin your climbing day. And while the best way to get around flash pump is to avoid it (i.e. warm up), there are tricks to salvaging your post-flash-pump climbing day.

Send more routes first go with savvy planning and execution.

Use a long cordelette or sling to create a fast, safe, and easy self-equalizing quad anchor

Almost every climber has ambitions, but often we simply don’t know how to move forward or at what pace—and so, perhaps, we plateau. Fortunately, there are five simple ways to track your goals and encourage steady progress.

There's a time and place for static moves. But what do of the world's strongest climbers have in common? They are very good at moving dynamically.