This is a blog about climbing. It might help you to get better at climbing.
You’ll find useful information here outside of training and nutrition – like the “soft skills” you can use to improve your climbing. Are they as essential as hangboarding? No. Are they useful anyway? Yes.

Climbing is mostly failing. You know that. I’m sure you’ve heard pro climbers talk about how you have to be okay with failing – it’s what you’ll be spending most of your time doing, after all.

What I’ve noticed in dealing with failure myself is that acceptance isn’t really the answer. In my opinion, you need to be more than okay with failing: you have to embrace it. I think that keeping failure at arms-length (yes, that’s a pun) can hold you back and hinder your climbing experience. 

You ever see people at the crag – or the gym – look defeated? You know, the people who look really sad, or the people who throw a wobbly when they fall, or any number of other things. Failing is making them upset. And sometimes, that’s fair enough. But if you start looking, you’ll see this happen a lot – and you’ll see it suck the joy right out of people.