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Discovering Czech sandstone with Adam Ondra!

2014/08/27 Articles, Interviews No comments

Early this August, we were part of a small group of climbing media professionals who were invited to the Adršpach and Teplice rocks, two of the most iconic areas for sandstone climbing in the Czech Republic.
Our hosts were Robin Kaleta, a renowned Czech freeride skier but also a passionate sandstone climber, and Adam Ondra, who surely needs no introductions. If you’d like to know what a nice weekend among sandstone towers and cliffs can be like, just keep on reading…

 

Photo: Adam Ondra climbing on the sandstone cliffs of Teplice © Claudia Ziegler Photography

 

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The Ideal Gym – pt.2 – Boulders for strength and technique

2014/05/10 Articles No comments

Sheffield's extraordinaire Shauna Coxsey bouldering © bergleben.deA bouldering wall is the basic structure on which you can train proper climbing movement and therefore elements of climbing performance such as strength, power and technique.
Yet, not many climbing walls make the best of their boulder walls, often sacrificing them under a number of aspects in favour of their taller brothers: the walls for rope climbing.
But here are a few great things that we have observed across various gyms and that we are now putting together for you.

 

Photo: Shauna Coxsey at the 2013 Boulder WC stage of Munich © bergleben.de

 

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The Ideal Gym – pt. 1 – Upper Body Conditioning

2013/12/03 Articles No comments

WoGü-fingerHow complete and systematic is your climbing wall? How good is it for training? As you try to answer these questions, you might realise that you are not too sure how to measure how good its structures are. A possible approach would be to see how far they are from an ideal gym, a place that has it all. Consequently, this is probably a good time to sit down and try to figure out what an ideal gym should be like.
Strong of our travelling experience and the advice of experienced coaches and sport therapists, we have decided to distill our knowledge in a series of articles that aim at creating a benchmark useful to anyone planning to build or renew a climbing wall.

 
Photo: The 9a fingers of Wolfgang Güllich at work © Thomas Ballenberger
 
 
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