I was climbing with a friend recently they had poor foot placements. When I was starting out, I had this issue as well. One of my coaches recommended a drill to make my foot placements as quiet as possible. You don’t have to do this all the time to get the benefits, just try on something easy to you for a few climbs and see if it help. cheers. p.s. 6 week online climbing bootcamp starts July 2nd shoot me a message to apply to join!

I asked all my followers on instagram what they think is holding them back a while ago. Interestingly, this was slightly towards strength. I found this really interesting..... what do you think is keeping you from hitting the next grade? Is it something other than this? Feel free to drop a comment. This will help me make content and do research based on your obstacles, simplify the information and make a video, just as I did with the footholds and Route planning

My minimum warmup is 5-10 minutes and is super simple. I do this 3 times: 1. 6 each side -Dynamic stretch "Greatest stretch ever" video here - preps my hips, back, shoulders a bit as well. Just gets everything in end range. I will play around a bit on the yoga mat before and after as well if I'm feeling stiff - found a video on youtube of it and put it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CiWQ2IvY34&t=9s 2. Hangboard on progressively thinner holds - I want to warm up my finger tendons for the really little holds. A physio once taught me you need to put a ton of load on the fingers to warm them up. Set 1 - juggy holds in the hangboard, Set 2 - set a bit more thin, Set 3- set I go till failure and try to keep it under 10 seconds to make sure I'm loading them a lot I absolutely hate being injured so this is how I prevent that, havent had a finger injury in a few years since being disciplined with this warmup. Also I'm definitely getting more flexible slowly What do you guys do? Or are you warming up at all?

I always love asking people this story, curious what got you all in this crazy world

We mostly got rained out on our trip to Red River Gorge this weekend, but we were able get out to Muir Valley for a few short climbs today before we leave tomorrow morning. Everything was super wet, and the other climbers we were going with bailed, so I just led up an easier short slab on the Practice Wall to set up top rope for the family. Gave my wife her first lead belaying lesson too, and she did amazing (though I wasn’t taking any big whippers here). We ended the day at Miguel’s after hiking more around Muir Valley and scoping out what were going to do when we come back with better weather!