#tbt to 2017 when we had Jerry Moffatt in the house for his Mastermind lecture! A big shout out and huge thanks to all that got involved in the Jerry Moffatt Lecture on Sunday evening! 140 people… dammmm. To give a wee summary of the evening in the hope… Read More
One of the things I like most about climbing is that the balance between the physical, technical and mental skills needed to climb a route. Without any one of those three aspects, your climbing potential will be limited. Everyone generally focuses on the physical side when training but the… Read More
Falling on lead, top rope or even when bouldering is intimidating because it is unnatural. Tell anyone to jump off the top of a thirteen metre wall and I would expect them to say, “No, thank you!” or thereabouts. As humans we are all born with varying degrees of basophobia,… Read More
Before lockdown, The Climbing Clan met every Wednesday at Manchester Climbing Centre. Whether you had experience climbing, or had someone to climb with or not, we took you under our wing. Quite a number of people have had their first climbing experience, and learnt to belay with us. Read More
a #tbt to our 2019 Crack School with Tom Randall & Harriet Ridley! CRACK IS BACK! Almost to the day 12 months ago, we hosted our first ever WIDE BOYZ CRACK SCHOOL! Now to say it went down a storm would be an understatement, so when Tom Randall dropped… Read More
Home Alone Climbing – A messenger project The beginning After Mike and I both realised we may be in for a few months of no job and more importantly no climbing we knew something had to keep us busy. Climbers had quickly adapted to using their fingerboards, pull up… Read More
Day 1 of any sport can be quite an unknown, generally it involves having no idea about technique, fitness levels, terminology or equipment and I can confirm climbing is no different. HOWEVER, what is very different to anything I’ve attempted before is immediate acceptance. I’m new… Read More
Tentsile Demo Evening 2017 revisited On Thursday 16th November 2017, we were lucky enough to be joined by Tentsile for a demo evening like no no other! It was a great night for the Tentsile Demo Evening and a huge thanks for Syd and Tentsile for arranging!… Read More
On Monday 18th December 2017, RCC had the pleasure of welcoming back North Face Athletes James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini aka Once Upon a Climb. On arrival James and Caroline did what they do best, said hi then headed for a climb. After a brief session on the boulders… Read More
A lot of people have been asking about this… so here it is. A lowdown on my #homewall build. Firstly… I built this back in 2015 and it is still solid, it was a bit of a ’just have a go’ type project and although I had a rough plan,… Read More
