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Rodellar October 1, 2009

No Pain No Gain

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Inside Out August 28, 2009

Funny game climbing, sometimes its like buses, you wait for ages, getting more and more frustrated, and then, just when you've given up, two come along at once.

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Hubble August 19, 2009

Only 8c+ but still the big one

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Long Routes - Petzl Team extend themselves July 17, 2009

The Petzl Roc trips get better and better, bigger and bigger. This year was no exception, with single pitch routes 100m long, I don't think they get any longer. I was invited again, obviously as the token Brit, there for dry humour and poor dress sense and perhaps because I've won a few trips, even up against the likes of Sharma and Andrada. Fortunately they hadn't spotted it was clearly either a fluke or involved some serious cunning. On performance alone I think I'd be lucky to scrape in!

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Mecca survives! June 12, 2009

Hardly news to 99.999% of climbers, but to those that care, the starting block falling off at the start of Mecca was a big issue!

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Skymasters 2009 April 5, 2009

Last year I got the chance to set the Skymasters competition at the UK Outdoor Show. It's a funny show, the "outdoor" show, the weather is always gorgeous and everyone is indoors sitting around stuffing their faces with hotdogs and cakes!


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Weak go home December 18, 2008

Reaching the new 'super crag' above the Spanish town of Oliana the first thing you see is a huge tufa, like a fat drainpipe of poured grey concrete stretching down from the summit. Automatically you see the weakness, finding the link between the ground and the top. You want to get up this cliff and this is the way!

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Some Training November 26, 2008

News - Premier UK bouldering venue perfect for power endurance training.

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Link - ups: do they count for much? November 2, 2008

Not really, but does anything in our sport really make sense? We look for the hardest way up the wall, then try and find the easiest way up it! Link-ups are fun for training, though often make two OK routes into one really good one.

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Deep Water Soloing in Denmark August 14, 2008

I was hoping for others to get to the top in the competition, to share first place. I guess that doesn't make me a great competition climber!

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Respect For The Route Makers August 6, 2008

Who owns a route? No one owns the rock. Does he who prepares a line have any rite to be the first to climb it, or is it open to all?

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Rapsody [E11] July 8, 2008

So far this year climbing seems to be going well. I managed to redpoint a new 9a/9a+. I always thought it was 9a+, but it went fast, so I wondered, is it really so hard???

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