Board Meetings | Better Working Goes: How To Send Faster
How can we make better use of our working goes in order to send hard things faster?
Board Meetings | Principle vs. Prescription in Climbing Training
How do you know which is right for your situation?
Board Meetings | Should Climbers Train Where They Are or Where They Want To Be?
Starting where you are is an important first step that is often missed.
Board Meetings | Should Climbers Generalize or Specialize?
When should you be growing your skill set and when should you be focused on one aspect of it?
Board Meetings | The Pros and Cons of Grade Pyramids vs. Towers
Which is better – building a grade pyramid or a tower – and how might one or the other impact your future climbing?
Board Meetings | The Quality vs. Quantity Conundrum in Climbing
How can we make sure we are getting the right thing – quality or quantity – in our climbing?
CONFLICTED | Indoor Beta Videos
There's a time and place for using beta videos, but in the gym?
CONFLICTED | Phones in the Climbing Gym
Is bringing your phone into the climbing gym worth it? We're conflicted…
Board Meetings | Is Your Climbing Training Corrective or Constructive?
There's a fine line between reactive and proactive training. If you're constantly being corrective or reactive, you may want to rethink things.
Board Meetings | Our Favorite Finger Strength Protocols
Kris and Nate discuss their favorite protocols, both that they use themselves and in programming for their clients.
Board Meetings | A Better Way to Look at Climbing Movement
Kris presents his idea of the Atomic Elements of Climbing Movement to Nate and asks for his thoughts.
CONFLICTED | Boards as Climbing Movement Assessment Tools
If we want to assess our climbing movement skills over time, are the standardized boards the best option? We're conflicted…
Board Meetings | How Nate Assesses Climbing Movement Skills and How You Can Self-Assess
How do we decide where to focus our efforts when it comes to becoming a BETTER climber – rather than just a stronger one?
Board Meetings | How Much Climbing Skill Is Guaranteed With Experience?
If the more you climb, the better you get, then why do we all know that one guy that’s been climbing forever and still stuck at 5.10?
REWIND | Board Meetings: The Art of Learning Climbing
One of our favorites: Kris and Nate discuss ideas about our mental models for learning, and how we might apply these ideas to climbing.
Board Meetings | Indoor Climbing Lessons That You Should Take Outdoors (Bonus Episode)
There are lessons from the climbing in a gym that should absolutely be applied outdoors in order to become a better climber faster.
Board Meetings | Improved Learning from Podcasts, Books, and Videos
With more and more information out there, it would seem that we can learn faster and better. But that isn't always the case.
CONFLICTED | Kneebarring on Boulders
Does kneebarring hard boulders make you stronger? We're conflicted.
Board Meetings | The Pros and Cons of Replicas
Watching Will Bosi and Aiden Roberts work on the Burden of Dreams replica is fun, but is it valuable for the rest of us?
Board Meetings | 5 Reasons Simple Training is Better with Nadya Suntay
Kris chats with our very own coach Nadya Suntay to remind us why it’s better to keep it simple when it comes to our training.