There is a great quote from a book I read a few years ago (Greg McKeown's Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less) "The word...

Resilience - noun 1. The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness ."the remarkable resilience of so many...

What is a good coach? It’s a question that has begun popping up more and more as the climbing coaching space expands and coaches with...

Mindfulness and meditation seem to be 21st century buzz words, with a multitude of apps available to us on our smart devices. We all in...

It’s been 8 years since I first wrote an article, after I set Boulder Nationals in Ballarat with an all male routesetting team, musing on...

I had a fascinating discussion with a fellow head routesetter recently after a stint of travel. The discussion was wide and wandering,...

I had the pleasure of chief setting this years youth nationals at Sydney Indoor Villawood (in Sydneys west), after the original chief...

It’s been a few months since climbings debut in the Summer Olympics. I would be interested to know how things changed globally after the...

OK, so, where did we finish? PICA is like RIC, but we have expanded the values, so instead of 1-5, we have 1-7. P (Precision, instead of...

Prepare yourselves, we are going on a journey, AND we are discussing one of my favourite things..... numbers. V grades are dead, well at...

It seems pretty likely that we will be dealing with the ongoing pain of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 (or SARS-CoV-2) for a...

One of the questions that I think about a lot in my job is ‘what is good routesetting?’ This question is important because as the indoor...

Avoiding injury climbing out of lockdown - a short of what I did..... This one’s for my Aussie friends, and having come out and gone into...

One of the questions that has plagued me as a coach, and likely many other climbers and trainers out there, is what is the best edge size...

I was stoked to do a virtual chat with Niklas Wiechmann while doing my hotel quarantine after coming back from the Tokyo Olympic Games....

It's taken me almost a decade to come to grips with what my ultimate routesetting kits looks like. To be honest, I think it will continue...

We are all time poor, from the elite athlete to the weekend warrior. No-one has an infinite amount of resources to spend on training,...

The number of climbers that sport an injury is astounding. Almost as if a climbing related injury is a form of climbing initiation and...