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Body Tension Techniques for Boulderers

Big moves on boards won’t help you build this skillset that can help boulderers break through common grade plateaus.

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What Climbers Get Wrong About Grades and Plateaus

Countless climbers believe they are stuck on some grade plateau… but are they really?

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It can mean the difference between being plateaued forever and breaking through quickly into harder grades.

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Using one simple question, we can continue to progress and move past the common bottlenecks in grading.

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Your own answers might actually be to blame.

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Returning to the common sense of how and why we do this thing should be common practice – but it rarely is.

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When it comes to projecting, how do you know when to walk away?

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There is one single skill that trumps all others when it comes to being able to climb 5.13… do you have it?

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The most important skill for sending hard climbs is knowing HOW to send.

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Why failure might not be our best teaching tool.

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Inspiration is intoxicating, but often fades as quickly as it shows up.

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Somehow, I didn’t fail. On my 50th birthday, I managed to scrape my way up my one-hundredth 5.13.