Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Deep Water Soloing World’s blog, having been very quiet for a while, has a post up detailing the forthcoming festivals this year. the most unusual? A soloing festival above a lake on a manufactured wall! I’ve heard it all now :) Still though, having se[...] Read More »

Flintshire, North Wales (Team Geared Up) - I read this morning on 8a.nu (one of my favourite sites) that Adam Ondra, pictured above, has just made short work of La Rambla, 9a+ in Siurana in Northern Spain… and he’s still only 15! “On his second day and fifth try Adam Ondra walked [...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Found this through B3Bouldering this morning in my feed. It’s a an interesting way of solo-ing routes. I won’t give away the main surprise of the footage, but it definitely gave me a surprise(!) when the guy decided to do what you can see in the snaps[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Neal McQuaid (TGU Blogger) has started a new climbing coaching company IrishClimbingCoching.ie with Nigel Callender. We are Irelands first and only dedicated Climbing Coaching provider, combining our own experience of top-level climbing with the science of performance a[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Here’s a brief update on the last trip to Siurana in Spain with Rob. Firstly, who’d have thought we’d spend the whole trip looking for the SUN while there?! Usually it’s the complete opposite with an almost allergic reaction to sun in Siur[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - As I posted on TGU in 2005, after hearing Simon Anthamatten speak at the Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival about his 7 new lines on the Eiger North-face in one summer and seeing him climbing I was truly taken by him. Amazing character, although it helps if your ‘d[...] Read More »