BangladeshCyberArmy

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Date registered: April 30, 2010

Latest posts

How are those new years resolutions going? — January 23, 2012
TryClimbing re-design — December 29, 2011
Mountain Picture Book for Babies: New on TeachClimbing! — September 11, 2011
Mountains of the mind: a history of a fascination. A review — June 23, 2011
Should under 18′s train using a campusboard? NO! — April 21, 2011

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Jan 23

How are those new years resolutions going?

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Experience Gift Vouchers

by BangladeshCyberArmy

It’s almost the end of January. New years resolutions seem to many nothing more than a distant (and slightly embarassing?) memory. A friend in my office made it a resolution not to check emails during the day. The hours of 9 – 5 were to be email free. At 1pm today he was on his …

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Dec 29

TryClimbing re-design

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Rock Climbing Instruction

by BangladeshCyberArmy

Early morning in the Alps: Steve with the Eiger in the background

Over the next few weeks there will be some exciting changes here at TryClimbing. For almost a decade (how time has flown!) TryClimbing has advertised Climbing Instruction for beginners, outside across the UK with Steve Puttick. Drawing on this experience TryClimbing is now being re-created to focus on providing free online advice for beginners. Bookmark …

Tags: free climbing guide, rock climbing for beginners, tryclimbing redesign

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Sep 11

Mountain Picture Book for Babies: New on TeachClimbing!

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Rock Climbing Instruction

by BangladeshCyberArmy

Attention all climbing mums & dads! Fed up of endless Zebras, Zylophones and Frogs in your baby’s picture books?! Finally there is a climbing solution. Ideal for those late nights gazing at pictures, over on teachclimbing.co.uk there is a brand new high contrast book ‘MTNS FOR BABY’. Black & White images great from birth and …

Tags: baby picture book, climbing gift, climbing parents

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Jun 23

Mountains of the mind: a history of a fascination. A review

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Climbing Books

by BangladeshCyberArmy

Mountains of the mind: a history of a fascination This is a brilliant book. Its central idea, that few other mountaineering books have touched on, is that what mountains mean is socially constructed. This is the ‘mountains of the mind’ idea. Which might sound like a strange statement. Clearly, literal, physical masses of rock and …

Tags: book review, mountains of the mind

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Apr 21

Should under 18′s train using a campusboard? NO!

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Rock Climbing Instruction

by BangladeshCyberArmy

The BMC have recently released a great article about ‘campus board’ training. If you have been to an indoor wall you may well have seen one of these lovely pieces of equipment. Probably the simplest of all climbing features to install, they consist simply of a piece of 18mm plywood, about 2m x 4m, starting …

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Nov 09

Fitness Training for Rock Climbing

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Rock Climbing Instruction

by BangladeshCyberArmy

Just a quick note to let you know that there is a new article from Harry Grove, of PT on Demand, written for rock climbers to help improve fitness levels and so improve your climbing. It is here. Enjoy your climbing! (and, of course, your training for climbing!) Steve

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Oct 06

Why buy a Try Climbing Gift Voucher for someone this Christmas?!

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Experience Gift Vouchers

by BangladeshCyberArmy

I’ve got 5 reasons why you should buy a TryClimbing gift voucher as a present for someone special this Christmas! Number 1: Smiles are better than Stuff I recently read ‘The Selfish Capitalist’ which is the follow up to ‘Affluenza’. The argument is compelling: More money and more ‘stuff’ does not lead to better, happier …

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Sep 24

My Mountain Sketch – using odosketch

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Rock Climbing Instruction

by BangladeshCyberArmy

Thanks (again) to Sean Pentony for the heads up about odosketch. Just checked out his blog here and enjoyed his online heart! So I’ve just spent the last half an hour messing around with it and creating my mountain sketch:

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Sep 20

More on ‘silent feet’ for climbing

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Rock Climbing Instruction

by BangladeshCyberArmy

At the wall this morning I noticed a couple of other things that illustrate the stuff I was talking about in this previous post. To recap, we discussed how really paying attention to your feet and even getting them onto holds silently was a great way to improve your climbing. The photos I took illustrate …

Tags: climbing instruction, footwork, improve movement, training

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Sep 17

Use Yoga and Pilates for Rock Climbing Training

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Rock Climbing Instruction

by BangladeshCyberArmy

Dramatic shots make us think climbing is all about the guns!

When people book with Try Climbing, they often say ‘I’m really excited, but… I won’t be any good at climbing – I’m far too weak’. This is a popular climbing myth. In my experience, people who say this usually get on much better and more quickly than (guys) who say they’re strong but quickly tire! …

Tags: balance, climbing games, flexibility, pilates, training for climbing, yoga

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