Hey climbers!

I’m a doctorate of physical therapy, fellow boulderer, and apparently now the hand cream guy! 🔵👋🏻

I’ve been working on creating Bioheal Pro, a GHK-Cu copper peptide skin cream, after discovering a product I really enjoyed using myself to help improve skin durability and skin/abrasion health, as well as prevent glassy skin or split tips from overuse or excessive antihydral usage.

Soo my genuine passion for this product, plus being burnout as a director in orthopedics for 5+ years sent me down a rabbit hole of getting in contact with the original biochemist who founded the modern day topical version of this peptide formula.

The idea is pretty simple, brining a little more science and intention to climbing skincare. No miracle claims or gimmicks, just a product I’m excited about and want other climbers to experience.

I’ll be in Salt Lake City this weekend for the IFSC competition, and I’m planning to hit up local climbing gyms whenever I’m not watching the event.

I’ll have some samples with me, so if you’re attending the competition or climbing around SLC, shoot me a message!
I’d love to meet some fellow climbers, share what I’ve been working on, and get some more genuine feedback!!

Also, taking recommendations for gyms, places to visit, and anyone looking for a climbing partner! 👋🏻🔵

My friend and I got tickets to the SLC World Cup and we're wondering how crazy it would be to try and fit in some climbing during the gap between semis and finals on Saturday/Sunday. From the schedule we've got 5+ hours between semis and finals and I'm seeing tons of spots within 30ish minutes (we will have a car) of the venue on Mountain Project. We'd also love some recommendations for spots. I've talked to some friends who used to climb in the SLC area and recommended BCC or American Fork I but wouldn't mind having additional intel or specific spots. We prefer no slab and looking for chill routes, say 5.9 or lower for sport, but open to higher if we can set a top rope. Since this is our first chance to attend a comp, we have no idea if this is a reasonable thing to try, but I really hope it is since the thought of being surrounded by so many craigs with my climbing partner but not go climbing kills me a little inside, especially since I drive through SLC a couple times a year and have been drooling over this rock for ages!

I accidentally bought 2 tickets for the men's bouldering comp in SLC on Saturday, Oct 17th (meant to purchase tix for the women's boulder comp). I don't want them to go to waste and I thought it would be nice to give them to someone for free. I'll send them to the first person to DM me :)

Edit: Tickets claimed

The second Team Boulder Arena is today in London. Matt Groom will comment this one.

Results and starting list (it's a fun one to decipher, ex. Manu C. M. MAWEM), not that many well known names, but I think it'll be fun anyway.

Saturday 10.10. at 19:00 - Stream

Instagram

The final will be in Paris on Saturday 14.11.

https://reddit.com/link/1x1hs3x/video/zf6tueg27fuh1/player

Hi everyone!

Small side project of mine: a free browser card game built around competition climbing. You open boosters and collect comp athletes: every World Cup, World Championships and Olympic finalist since 1991, plus anyone who finished in the top 25 of a World Cup overall ranking since 2010, each with their podiums and results. A few outdoor routes and rock climbers are mixed in too.

No ads, nothing to buy, it's just for fun.

It's still rough in places and the data surely has gaps, so if an athlete is missing or a stat looks off, let me know and I'll fix it. Card rarity is mostly based on how well known an athlete is, so it won't always match their results. Happy to hear where it feels wrong.

https://climbmaster.grimpeclub.com/try (you can open one booster without an account)

anyone know why theres no korean climbers registered for slc? its already passed registration too

40th Rock Master starts today! There will be Lead Duel, KO Boulder and FASI Speed Record Hunters (I'm not sure if all of it will be streamed)

Men: Adam Ondra, Stefano Ghisolfi, Filip Schenk, Yannick Flohé, Luka Potočar, Shion Omata, Sascha Lehmann, Giovanni Placci.

Women: Jessica Pilz, Anna Maria Apel, Laura Rogora, Lučka Rakovec, Héloïse Doumont, Hana Koike, Aleksandra Totkova, Brooke Raboutou

Streams on Rock Master Festival's YouTube

Lead Duel - Friday 2.10 20:00 (UTC +2)

KO Boulder - Saturday 3.10 20:00 (it's scheduled for Friday)

FASI Speed Record Hunters - 11 Italian speed climbers (8 men and 3 women) will try to set new Italian speed record in interesting format.

https://www.mewatch.sg/channels/Asian-Games-CH02-840094 with Singapore VPN

https://www.mewatch.sg/channels/Asian-Games-CH05-840095

You need to use VPN if viewing outside of Singapore.

They snuck this in the World Climbing Season announcement at the end lol

Very curious what those who are in the youth circuit think of this? For the US it's a major holiday but to take off school to acclimate for a few days/week and then a week of competition is A LOT to ask, no?

Just wonder if there will be live stream and chat

When I read comments here, everyone keeps stating that they are in a "competitive region". What does that mean? Which regions are the competitive regions? Is there an objective way to measure this (on climb8a)? I imagine it would depend on the youth category?

I (14) climb about three days a week and compete. However, it takes me a long time to get to my gym, and I don't have anyone to drive or belay me. I only have a belayer once a week at best. Because of this, I mostly boulder (V8) and do quite well in bouldering comps. When I go to lead comps, I do much worse and always pump out on the wall. How can I get better endurance on lead without actually lead climbing often?

For youth / parents of team kids… new to this so looking for those with more insight.

We have a naturally strong climber who constantly wows the more experienced adults around them. Wanted to enter into the competitive world.

9yo (almost 10) has been flashing all v3s and some v4s for the last year without a ton of training, and we finally got an opportunity to try out for the local team for their youngest / lowest developmental level. Team rejected the kid saying, at their age they should be doing v6 & v7s. This seems laughable to me for starting out with a USAC developmental team at 9-10yo. Am I an idiot?

Edit: Laughable = No shade, it's directed at me! We are new to competitions and in need of some expectation setting. :)

UPDATE:

Kid ended up doing 2 more tryouts a few weeks after our initial rejection. Got accepted to a very, very good team that consistently shows up at a national level. It paid off to try some different avenues.

We heard from another gym they had 200 kids try out for 20 open team spots. Yikes!

The time has come for me to attend my first comp in person!

Does anyone have any insight on what seating would be the most exciting? I really like being able to clearly see how the athletes are climbing on the wall but I also want to be relatively comfortable while I watch.

I'm going to miss not being able to hear Matt's commentary but I'm sure the atmosphere will make up for that.

Here's the map:

The Team Boulder Arena is coming back for the fifth time this year and with three events! Milano this weekend (Saturday 19th September 2026), London in October and traditional Paris in November.

They managed to get strong teams, like Adam Ondra and with Filip Schenk (just a perfect pair for boulder comp climbing haha), Geila Macia Martin + Georgia Tessio, Chloé Caulier + Selma Elhadj Mimoune, Flavy Cohaut + Maïlys Piazzalunga, Guillermo Peinado Franganillo + Manuel Antonio Pastor Sanchez, Niccolo + Mattia Salvatore (cousins), Sam Richard + Manu Cornu (this pairing 🔥) and more.

Qualifications are on Saturday at 8:00 without live stream, but finals will be stream! International commentator will be James Blay.

Finals - Saturday 19:40 (time zone converter) - LIVE (English), LIVE (Italian)

Results Women, Men

Official page, Instagram (International), Instagram (Milano)

We have been sitting on this for a while, so it is nice to get it out there!

Pro Climbing League is back in 2027 with three events across Europe. Berlin, Paris and London all have such amazing climbing communities that we cannot wait to put on a show for everyone.

We learned so much from our first event and are so hyped to bring you a full season featuring an improved head-to-head format, bringing you more climbing, action and drama throughout the day. 

Any questions about PCL for next year, fire in the comments below.