Kris Hampton 8/15/24 Kris Hampton 8/15/24

Ravioli Biceps and Nate Drolet | The Parallels Between Climbing and Video Games

Long-time friends Nate and Ravioli Biceps discuss lessons they’ve pulled from video gaming that can help inform our climbing.

Kris Hampton 4/8/24 Kris Hampton 4/8/24

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…

Kris Hampton 10/19/23 Kris Hampton 10/19/23

REWIND | Miguel and Dario Ventura on Life Imitating Art

Forty years ago, Miguel Ventura moved to Slade, Kentucky and started what was then known as The Rainbow Door, and has become an icon to climbers all over the world.

Kris Hampton 8/24/23 Kris Hampton 8/24/23

REWIND | Ravioli Biceps on Moonboarding, Process, and Identity

REWIND with us to meet the internet’s (and pasta lovers’?) favorite Moonboarder, the first person to send all the benchmarks of the 2016 set: Ravioli Biceps.

Nathan Drolet 5/19/23 Nathan Drolet 5/19/23

Is Board Climbing Fixing a Problem You Don't Have?

Giving artificially low grades to climbs increases their perceived value for our training and development. The more something is mis-graded the more we naturally want to prioritize it.