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The Olympics! What a show for Speed Climbing

The Olympics! What a show for Speed Climbing

In the past weeks we've seen an incredible show on the biggest sport stage in the world, the Olympics. We couldn't have hoped for a better results, all the athletes where at their best and the number of correct runs and all the records beaten confirms

Speed Climbing Techniques: The Indonesian

Speed Climbing Techniques: The Indonesian

Techniques can be seen as modifications or innovations of the previous techniques, the Tomoa is an innovation of the Reza, the Reza is a modification of the Classic start; as these the Indonesian is a modification of the long move with the sequence 13-15-foot 11 (see the video down here)

Calendar 2024 - Speed World Competitions

Calendar 2024 - Speed World Competitions

The Olympic year, the year in which every national worldwide tries with all his power to put one of their athletes on the prestigious list of the Olympic Athletes. Today we make an infographic to let you know the next events that will bring the best athletes around the world

Mobility, is it foundamental to be fast?

Mobility, is it foundamental to be fast?

Maybe that’s not the first aspect you will appreciate when you watch a Speed competition, you think about strength, power, speed, frequency, coordination, but how much can mobility impact your performance? Today we will find it out! Sometimes a photo can tell much more than a text, and so

4 Tips to Learn a New Technique

4 Tips to Learn a New Technique

With this new article we want to define what the gap is and how big it is between the knowledge about a technique and the implications behind it’s execution and optimization. Everyone knows many techniques, the sequence of the holds that has to be taken, the dynamics of the

Our New LOGO!

Our new logo is now live! 🎉 We wanted to make something more rappresentative of Our goal and for Our we mean all the Speed Climbing World community, we wanted to say out loud “sky is the limit!” and maybe even something more. 📈 So here we go, a beautiful spaceship that

Speed Climbing Techniques: The Reza

Speed Climbing Techniques: The Reza

The 2016 World Cup Season is almost at its end, Boldyrev’s World Record is still unbeaten after 2 years and nobody in that season seems to be at his 2014 level. Reza presents at the 2016 WC in Wujiang “the Reza”, a brand new technique, trying to find a

To Practice or Not to Practice

To Practice or Not to Practice

Bern has been an amazing competition, on the other side, due to the tetris like management of all the disciplines Speed, Lead, Boulder, Combined and Paraclimbing the organisation have taken the decision to separate the competition in 3 tranches.

Efficiency index: how does it work?

Efficiency index: how does it work?

To determine if a run is correct or not we can’t only consider if we make a clear technical mistake like a slip or not, but we have to consider even if we have kept a good speed throughout the run, so how can you determine if you’ve done it right or not in an objective way?

Speed Wall Friction

Speed Wall Friction

Speed climbing walls has always been different from competition to competition, they can have slightly different inclinations, as the rules says, between 4.5 and 6.5°, slightly different holds (even if they are homologated) and “slightly” different Friction Coefficients.

Speed Climbing Techniques: The Classic Start

Speed Climbing Techniques: The Classic Start

Many techniques have been developed over the years, but where did they start? We can say that all speed climbers started out using a common technique, which we can call the Classic technique. But how it's done?

Speed Climbing Techniques : The Vaichekowski

Speed Climbing Techniques : The Vaichekowski

Evgenii Vaitcekhovskii was the first climber to think in an alternative way and revolutionized the speed sequence.

Speed Climbing Map

Speed Climbing Map

A map helps us orient ourselves to our destination and assists us in our decisions, plus it creates a reference through which everyone can know where to go, which is why today we will present the Speed Climbing Map.

Speed climbing shoes, could they be developed further?

Speed climbing shoes, could they be developed further?

Are the "speed climbing shoes" really designed to be the best speed climbing shes, or are they just some normal climbing shoes?