Every now and then we bump in to interesting little titbits in our data: milestone grades are one of these! In theory we would expect people’s best grades to follow some sort of distribution but it appears the population of climbers “who train” (i.e. the ones who come to see us!) gravitate towards classic milestone grades. Our route […]
Height has always been a contentious topic in climbing. And understandably so! There’s nothing quite so frustrating as watching someone reach past a move you’ve been struggling with for hours! But how much of an advantage is it in practice? Being tall might not necessarily be an advantage as keeping body tension is trickier on steep problems, and of […]
Lucy Mitchell is a climber from Northern Ireland (Belfast) and unbeknownst to much of the UK climbing community, is racking up one of the most impressive sport tick lists by a UK female climber. Ever. She recently returned from Spain where she made an ascent of Fish Eye 8c in just 7 days. “I tried it once last May/April […]
9a by the age of 22 for UK climbers is fast becoming the gold standard to aspire to. No longer the realms of “professional full-timers only” we have a chat to Will Smith about Era Vella, indoor replicas and training for outdoor performance. Will is a 22 year old climber who in recent times has […]
Andy Burgess started training with Lattice earlier this year as a boulderer. Andy recently climbed Mecca 8b+ just under 1 year after he sent his first sport 7b+. Andy has climbed up to 8a bouldering but not much else other than that 7b+ sport climbing before approaching Lattice for training. A remarkably quick progression, we […]
I think most people would agree that Adam Ondra has a fairly respectable ticklist, but just how good is it? We thought it’d be interesting to dig in to his 8a.nu routes scorecard in a bit more detail to see if we could work out a secret trick to climbing 9b+ (spolier: there is no secret […]
Will Bosi recently became the youngest Britain to climb 9a, which is really impressive, but in reality it’s just one facet of his climbing. He’s also climbed V14, podium-placed in multiple European Youth Cup events and won many of the UK Lead and Boulder Comps. These kind of accolades however, often overshadow the hard work […]