Just a few thoughts
This week we recognize and celebrate those sisters, mothers, daughters and friends that contribute to our climbing and global community. International Women’s Day is a single day, but let’s appreciate their impacts all year. Also for the gym staff among us, some great beta for you below. Lastly, good luck competitors at USAC Team Trials happening now through Sunday!
Insider Stuff
- Walls are Meant for Colonizing (Rob Moore, The American Climbing Project)Video: Pro Climbers Raise Their Voices – No War (Actiontalk TV)
- Podcast: Greasy and the Beast, Ft. Ned Feehally (The Runout)
- Daniel Woods, World’s Most Accomplished Boulderer (Owen Clarke, Climbing Mag)
A Focus On Women
- The Problem With Routesetting – B.I.G. Challenges Male Dominated Industry (Noah Walker, Gripped)“Do You Consider Yourself A Feminist?” A Conversation with Lynn Hill (Delaney Miller, Climbing Mag)
- The Women of EP Climbing USA (EP Climbing)
- Video: The Legendary Women of Rock Climbing (Climbers Crag)
Comp Scene
- Today-Sunday: USAC Team Trials at Stone Summit Kennesaw
- Video: Indiana Chapman, 2022 Canadian Lead Champion (Plastic Weekly)
- Erin Corbett and Canada’s First Nonbinary Category Competition (Noah Walker, Gripped)
- Chris Sharma’s New Gym Hosts Paris Olympic Format Debut Competition (Noah Walker, Gripped)
- She Opened Her Home to Top International Climbers – and Changed Lives (Delaney Miller, Climbing Mag)
Training Tips
- Video: How to Train Endurance on a small board, woody, spray wall (Tom O’Halloran)
- Video: A Performance Guide to Flexibility (Lattice Training)
- Video: Should You Be Worried About Scapular “Winging”? (Hooper’s Beta)
- Video: How To Rehab a Climbing Pulley Injury (The Climbing Doctor)
- How to Climb Slopers (Climbing Mag)
Beta For Gym Staff
- Managing Middle Management (Paul Terbrueggan, CWA)
- Apr 21: Diversity Work IS Culture Work (CWA)
- Apr 22-23 in UK: GB Climbing Coaches Conference
- Jul / Aug / Oct: Performance Climbing Coach Events
- Coach Your Coaches With This Five Week Plan (Hailey Caissie, CWA)
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