Matt Samet

1 week ago | climbing.com | Matt Samet

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Over three decades ago, I established the first V11 in the United States. I think. Maybe. Well, probably not…. I named the problem Gnar-Gnar. It added a sit start to a previously unnamed line on the Africa Boulder, on the Lower Mound of the granite, semi-urban—think spray paint and broken glass—U Mound Boulders above Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Matt Samet

1 hour agoThe Best & Worst Gym Exercises for ClimbersClimbers Guide to Training - online course: https://latticetraining.com/yt/product/a-climbers-guide-to-training-course/ Contact us: [email protected] Which resistance training exercises actually help your climbing? In this tier list, we rank the best (and worst) weight lifting exercises for rock climbers—based on effectiveness, accessibility, and overall value for climbing performance.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Matt Samet

How I Climbed V10 on the Boards at Age 53\r\rNow, bouldering is a sport of its own\u2014gaining popularity in indoor and outdoor environments all over the world. It\u0027s the simplest, …

2 months ago | climbing.com | Matt Samet

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. If you had told me as I pulled onto a MoonBoard for the first time at age 47 that six years later, I’d do my first double-digit problem on a board, I’d have smacked you upside the head with a stick brush. That’s because, during that first session, on the 2017 MoonBoard at the Boulder Rock Club, I could barely do the easiest problems: the V3 benchmarks.

Jan 21, 2025 | climbing.com | Matt Samet

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Old habits clearly die hard, because my climbing partner Brandon and I were both grousing the first time we tried out the Edelrid Pinch at the gym.