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The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide for the Rock Climber in Your Life

Dovi Hirsch

Dec 32 min read

The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide for the Rock Climber in Your Life

It's the holiday season! Whatever your belaytionship status, here are three gifts for the rock climber in your life.

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Maximize Time Climbing on a Small Training Wall

Dovi Hirsch

Nov 183 min read

Maximize Time Climbing on a Small Training Wall

If you want to take your climbing to the next level, a spray wall or rocket wall is a total game changer.

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3 Ways to Train for a Successful Rock Climbing Season

Dovi Hirsch

May 23 min read

3 Ways to Train for a Successful Rock Climbing Season

With the last snow behind us, I think it is finally safe to say that spring has arrived. There is that fresh change in the air, the birds...

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Accept What You Cannot Change…That Climbing Gyms HAVE Changed

Dovi Hirsch

Apr 54 min read

Accept What You Cannot Change…That Climbing Gyms HAVE Changed

You can’t change the fact that climbing gyms are having a bit of an identity crisis, but you CAN change where you train.

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The 2023 Holiday Gift Guide for Climbers

Dovi Hirsch

Dec 12, 20233 min read

The 2023 Holiday Gift Guide for Climbers

by Christopher Schafenacker So, you’re looking for a gift for that climber in your life? You know they’d like nothing more than climbing...

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Can't Get to a Climbing Gym? 3 Tips to Keep Training from Your Home

Dovi Hirsch

Nov 8, 20233 min read

Can't Get to a Climbing Gym? 3 Tips to Keep Training from Your Home

by Christopher Schafenacker So, your local pain cave has a bedbug infestation… or your car’s been making a weird sound… or winter’s...

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Why You Should Consider a Home Climbing Wall

Dovi Hirsch

Oct 30, 20232 min read

Why You Should Consider a Home Climbing Wall

by Christopher Schafenacker If you’ve spent any amount of time at climbing gyms around the country this past decade, you’ve witnessed the...

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Welcome to Winter Training: How to Make the Most of the Off-Season

Dovi Hirsch

Jan 4, 20233 min read

Welcome to Winter Training: How to Make the Most of the Off-Season

by Christopher Schafenacker Every die-hard climber knows there’s no real off-season in climbing. When conditions are good, you’re trying...

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Not Psyched on the Setting? 4 Ways to Train on Uninspiring Gym Routes

Dovi Hirsch

Jun 27, 20223 min read

Not Psyched on the Setting? 4 Ways to Train on Uninspiring Gym Routes

Here are five tips for rock climbing in a gym when the setting is a little uninspiring.

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What Can You ACTUALLY Accomplish on a Home Climbing Wall?

Dovi Hirsch

Jan 11, 20223 min read

What Can You ACTUALLY Accomplish on a Home Climbing Wall?

What can you ACTUALLY accomplish on a home climbing wall? Home climbing wall workouts can be surprisingly effective—and surprisingly hard!

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5 Reasons Why A Freestanding Hangboard Frame is Juuuust Right

Dovi Hirsch

Sep 14, 20213 min read

5 Reasons Why A Freestanding Hangboard Frame is Juuuust Right

The freestanding hangboard has emerged as the Goldilocks solution for those without the space or resources to mount a home climbing wall.

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Climbing Training: Drills That Every Rock Climber Should Be Doing

Dovi Hirsch

Jul 19, 20213 min read

Climbing Training: Drills That Every Rock Climber Should Be Doing

We don't always have time to visit the gym or crag, but there are plenty of climbing training drills we can do at home to stay in shape...

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The 5 Climbing Holds You Need to Maximize Your Home Climbing Wall

Dovi Hirsch

Jun 14, 20214 min read

The 5 Climbing Holds You Need to Maximize Your Home Climbing Wall

Your Rocket Wall home woody has just arrived. Learn which holds you need to get the most out of this climbing training tool.

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The Art of the Home Climbing Wall: The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Dangerous

Dovi Hirsch

Jan 4, 20215 min read

The Art of the Home Climbing Wall: The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Dangerous

If nothing else came out of 2020, a wide range of home climbing walls were built. Some were epic. Some were, uh, not so epic. And some were

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Dovi Hirsch

Nov 30, 20205 min read

Holiday Gift Ideas for Rock Climbers

by Christopher Schafenacker If you or a loved one has experimented with rock climbing, you know the activity is all-consuming and highly...

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