Rock climbing guide services, much like a person, have their own beliefs, culture and even their own personality. Within any given climbing guide service each guide tends to have certain area of strength and their own personality they bring to a given day of guided rock climbing. Every climbing guide and guide service is not Read more...
In general there are two types of rock climbing that most people start with when beginning the sport. Bouldering, climbing short climbs with out a rope and crash pad below you and top roping. Top roping is a great way to begin learning about rope climbing. The risk is relatively low and dangers are managed easily. On guided top Read more...
Each year, especially in the summer months, we get a unique opportunity to share our passion of rock climbing with a variety of individuals, families and groups through guided outdoor rock climbing. For me,as a long time climbing guide, I still enjoy the many aspects of my guiding prep and day of activities. From preparing Read more...
This is meant to be a layman’s dictionary of climbing terms to help decode any climbing jargon used throughout the Brevard Rock Gym website and hopefully any other climbing material you come across. TYPES OF CLIMBING: Sport Climbing- Lead, rope climbing where you will clip quick draws, 2 carabineers connected by webbing, to a pre Read more...
This is the beginning of a series of articles I will be doing on training. I will speak to climbing training specifically, though as you may already know, or hopefully keep at it long enough to find out, climbing is simply a metaphor for so much more. To lead into this initally I give you quote that I often Read more...
I am excited to launch our “Knowledge” page of the website over the next month. The goal of this portion of the website is to provide articles and resources about various aspects of climbing. Be it a layman’s glossary of climbing terms, a training program for elite climbers, understanding the benefits of climbing for kids, Read more...
From http://www.articlesbase.com/sports-and-fitness-articles/rock-climbing-health-benefits-166727.html In the past few years, Rock climbing is seen as a mainstream sport and the number of people taking up this adventurous sport is on the rise every year. This is because it allows the exploration of inaccessible cliffs, rocks and encourages you to move higher when climbing the face of the rock. Read more...
