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Red Chili Ventic Air Lace | Climbing Shoe Review

Sustainable excellence in a comfortable, breathable package - the Red Chili Ventic Air Lace is without a doubt the nicest climbing shoe experience I’ve ever had.

Like much of the competition, Red Chili have opted to make their latest all-rounder shoe with a knitted upper. Plucked from the big branded world of trainers, these softer knit fabrics have become synonymous with the comfy shoe in any brand’s line up. Promising a more forgiving fit on top of the foot and offering more breathability than the classic climbing shoe uppers, the benefits of this new material’s climbing shoe infiltration are clear. But, how will it affect performance and how will it stand up to the rigours of regular climbing? More on this below.

November 15, 2022
3 min read

Bouldering Bobat vs The World's Tallest Dam | Weekly Video

This week's video comes from Verzasca Dam in Switzerland, the site of Red Bull's recently held multi pitch climbing competition, the Dual Ascent. Our video pick follows Bouldering Bobat as they take on this insane challenge alongside a host of other professional climbers. At a daunting 220 metres in height, the dam is massive and consists of 6 pitches. During Red Bull's event, two teams of professional climbers race side by side up identical routes from bottom to top. Here, Bobat are on the warm up route and even this looks incredibly tough, check it out!

November 11, 2022
1 min read

La Sportiva Mantra | Climbing Shoe Review

In an age where climbing styles and disciplines are growing further apart, that old moniker of the ‘all-rounder’ is becoming increasingly obsolete, pushing climbing shoe manufacturers to produce more specialist models designed for a particular purpose. Up steps the Mantra, quite possibly the most extreme version of this refinement we’ve ever seen. Is this a good thing? Keep reading to find out.

November 04, 2022
4 min read

Buster Martin on Action Directe 9a | Weekly Video

This week's video comes from the Frankenjura where Moon climber Buster Martin is working the Wolfgang Güllich route, Action Directe 9a. First climbed by Wolfgang in 1991, the pocket pulling test piece was awarded the grade of 8c+ which, like Ben Moon's route Hubble which was climbed the year before, marked a serious step up in sport climbing standards around the world. Now some years later, both routes have been given 9a and Moon athlete Buster Martin is vying to become only the second climber after Alex Megos to have climbed both legendary routes. Can he stick Action Directe's famous mono dyno move? Watch below to find out!

November 04, 2022
1 min read

Bouldering Bobat in Rocklands | Weekly Video

This week's video comes from the world's premier bouldering destination, Rocklands where it's the turn of Bouldering Bobat to take on the immense lines and towering faces of sandstone. Packed full of action, the near hour long video packs in tonnes of action from the whole Bobat team. A quick ascent of Shosholoza 8A+ for Jake is a particular highlight of the video with the line showing off some of the best movement Rocklands has to offer.

October 28, 2022
1 min read

13 Tips To Improve Your Climbing | Weekly Video

This week's video comes from Swedish international climber, Emil Abrahamsson who has 13 tips for us to improve our climbing. Whilst this video has become a bit of a staple for climbing YouTubers, this particular offering from Emil is one of the most insightful we've seen with tips that teach both new and experienced climbers something new. Maybe one of these tips will be the key to you sending that weekend project - enjoy!

October 21, 2022
1 min read

Bouldering Pads | Get Outdoors Top 5

With summer and the outdoor climbing season fast approaching, you might be planning to make your debut on real rock, taking the skills you’ve learnt at an indoor wall to your local crags or boulders. In this mini-series we’ll be looking at some of the kit you’ll need to get started climbing outside. This week it’s the turn of bouldering pads, the portable blocks of foam that you’ll be taking with you on a bouldering trip to protect you in the case of a fall. Below we’ll suggest our top 5 picks (in no particular order) for your first bouldering pad, taking price and quality into account.

October 17, 2022
5 min read

Wide Boyz Complete Peak District Classic Rock Round | Weekly Video

The Wide Boyz are back on our weekly video feature with this epic Classic Rock Round of the Peak District. The Peak's Classic Round consists of 12 routes, 4 crags and around 55km of total distance between the venues. Tom and Pete chose to cover the distance together on a tandem bicycle and, of course, they ended up doing it on one of the hottest days of the year.

October 14, 2022
1 min read

Flashed Big Squishy & Drifter | Bouldering Pad Review

Here in the UK we share a lot with the Americans. Our taste in music, fashion and culture, the food we eat and even some of their climbing brands. The latest of which is Flashed, a bouldering pad company some might recognise having been on the UK climbing scene over 10 years ago. Now they’re back for another bite of the cherry with two pads that attack the premium end of the bouldering mat market but promise robust, unrivalled quality. A neat addition or more American trash? Read on to find out.

October 11, 2022
4 min read

What Happens When a Pro Climber Signs Up For a Beginner Course? | Weekly Video

This week's video comes from Magnus Midtbo (or Bjorn) as he dons an incredibly suspect disguise to take part in a beginner's climbing course at a gym in the US. Masquerading as Bjorn the Icelandic reporter, Magnus works his way through the grades at what would seem like lightning pace for someone seemingly fresh to the sport.

October 07, 2022
1 min read

Black Diamond Technician Leather & Mission XP | Approach Shoe Review

Dave Westlake has been testing two models of approach shoe from Black Diamond in recent months – the Mission XP and the Technician Leather. These are both what I’d call ‘cragging’ approach shoes, in a category of footwear which now covers all eventualities and all approaches. At one extreme, we have easy on/off trainer style shoes for approaching the indoor gym from the carpark. At the other, we have sturdy waterproof mountain shoes for treacherous 2+ hour walk-ins. Both the Mission XP and the Technician Leather from BD are somewhere in between – most similar to the classic Five Ten Guide Tennie.

October 03, 2022
5 min read

Bouldering in the Peak in 1994 | Weekly Video

This week's video is a throwback to 1994 where we join Ben Moon (and a cameo appearance from Jerry Moffatt) on a tour of the Peak District in its bouldering pomp. The near hour long feature visits the classic destinations like Stanage and the Tor on a whistle-stop journey through some of the toughest boulders the Peak has to offer.

September 30, 2022
1 min read

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Red Chili Ventic Air Lace | Climbing Shoe Review

Bouldering Bobat vs The World's Tallest Dam | Weekly Video

La Sportiva Mantra | Climbing Shoe Review

Buster Martin on Action Directe 9a | Weekly Video

Bouldering Bobat in Rocklands | Weekly Video

13 Tips To Improve Your Climbing | Weekly Video

Bouldering Pads | Get Outdoors Top 5

Wide Boyz Complete Peak District Classic Rock Round | Weekly Video

Flashed Big Squishy & Drifter | Bouldering Pad Review

What Happens When a Pro Climber Signs Up For a Beginner Course? | Weekly Video

Black Diamond Technician Leather & Mission XP | Approach Shoe Review

Bouldering in the Peak in 1994 | Weekly Video

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