Weekly Twitter Updates for 2009-11-22
Bouldering in Ohio http://bit.ly/aQL2Z #climb #bouldering # The Sin of Sponsorship http://tinyurl.com/yg8f5n8 #climb (via @clmbmore, @lstefurak) # Conrad Anker climbing on Eldorado Canyon's famed Naked Edge

Weekly Twitter Updates for 2009-11-15
Sunburn in the mountains http://bit.ly/JOCU7 #climb #mountaineering # RT @Smart_Climbing explaining why graded exposure works better than flooding for falling off practice http://bit.ly/3MCAZI #climb # Win An Access Fu

Climbing Video: The 9 Rules of Rock Climbing from TED
Interesting video from TED showing how lessons learned in rock climbing apply to daily life.

Medical Professionals Treating Climbing Injuries
The most sustained commenting I see on posts here are those related to climbing injuries. There’s also been increased activity on my post from February where I described my A2 pulley injury and the steps I began to recover. Many of the comments from other climbers related to their injury, how they’ve been treating it, and where to go for additional advice. Since these posts live forever via search engines, I thought it may be useful to simply have a post where anyone can comment on what doctors or other medical professionals they’ve found to be helpful in dealing

Will Gadd on Training for Climbing
Will Gadd on general fitness and weight training versus climbing specific training: I’m going to get real blunt here: If you want to be a better climber then damn well go climbing. Especially a better rock climber. I would bet any amount of money that if a person spent, say, 20 hours a week training and climbing hard in a structured climbing program (rock gym and outdoors) and an identical person spent 20 hours a week in a weight gym (even one promising some sort of climbing-specific program) that the actual climbing effort would destroy the gym program. Absolutely destroy it, as