Junior crushers

I’ll be at TCA this very afternoon from 3pm for short notice consults but I’ll mainly be working with the junior bouldering squad to measure their crush strength. I’m interested in what will happen. Watch this space for results

TCA Crush League results

A tip top entertaining evening with a few surprises and not short on interesting conversations, theories, ideas and just a couple of excuses. Thanks for all your help people and there will be another one in 4 weeks. Probably the Tuesday.

Who are the strongest – climbers or non-climbers?

As a sort of pre-curser to Monday night’s ‘Crush League’ I have put my undergrad study online (Resources page) to appeal to you data-hounds out there. There’s loads of info, including the original data sets but all you really need to know is that climbers are 12% better than everyone else (sort of). I will…

Crush League

I’m intending to do a bit of research over the next few months at TCA which means I will be asking for volunteers to do nothing more than squeeze my grip strength tester. I thought it would be fun to produce a Crush League which I will stick on the wall on Monday night a…

Happy New Year and looking forward to a successful year for everyone

Just a little reminder that I will be at the wall on Friday evening for anyone who wants to ‘drop-in’ and receive updates and tweaks to their rehab programme. Also I will be at the wall from 2pm on Sunday (with Rupert I think) running an injury screening clinic and hopefully introducing the first of…

Pigs in blankets

Pigs in blankets, mince pies and free climbing at TCA tonight. What’s not to like.

All quiet on the (South) Western front

As things are so quiet on the run up to Christmas I will be at the wall tomorrow eve running a drop in clinic. Now, there is every chance I will be ON the wall tomorrow but feel free to bend my ear. Ciao