Rock climbing equipment ads -
I hope you find these useful!:

...you know, quickdraws, ropes, nuts, cams, friends, rock boots, harnesses, that sort of thing!

The Archive of Rock Climbing Moves & Tips
Rock climbing gear buying guide:
A short rant on the tao of gear purchases
Buying Rock boots
Basic kit: Harness, helmet and belay plate
Basic kit: Prussiks, karabiners and other essentials
Buying A simple rack
Why all these different ropes? (i.e. buying a rope)
Extending the rack - Advanced racks and cams
Rock climbing guide:
Five tips for total newbies
Some general comments on learning technique
Index of crack climbing tips
Jamming
The centre of gravity
Manipulating your centre of gravity: flagging
Switching feet - why and how
Pushing on holds to shift your weight around
Using the outside of your feet
Twist-locking
Basic overhang technique: straight arms
Cross-hooking: more manipulation of the centre of gravity
More balance techniques for overhangs
Egyptians: advanced overhang technique
Chimneys - basic ways of ascending a chimney
Off-widths
Dynos
The back-step
Laybacks
Links
Yes, I have some links!

Welcome...

...to the site I wished existed when I started climbing: a source of advice not on how to tie knots and make belays (which you do obviously need to learn) but on how to actually climb stuff.

The rock climbing guide is a collection of what people told me as a novice, and often explained by someone who only just figured it out themselves. But it's useful, even to some people who are quite advanced. Click on the links to the right to get going.

The new gear buying guide was originally written on request for another website, but I thought readers here might be interested in it so have published another copy. By strange coincidence, I started running google ads at around the same time. I hope these are useful if you want to buy climbing gear!

A couple of disclaimers...

Thanks for reading, please enjoy... and get out there and climb!

For the purpose of google rankings here is a link to CLUD psytrance night in Cardiff.