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Whether you're a weekend climber or aiming to become a professional guide, Mountain Training qualifications are essential if you want to teach others and be insured to do so.

Explore the benefits of completing the BMC’s FUNDas 1 and 2 courses, how it will help your own personal climbing journey and how you can use this learning to better support others.  Sure sounds like a win win to us!

There are many different ways to improve your climbing movement and technique. There is a wealth of resources on paper and online for self-learning, paying attention and reflecting on routes helps a lot as does observing others and having someone to support and coach can also be an invaluable route to that next grade or new terrain. 

Leading is a significant step in any climber's development. But is it a necessary one? If you enjoy the movement of climbing and you climb mainly indoors is there anything really to be gained by leading other than risk? If you don't lead climb will it limit your climbing?

For some of us injuries are a sad fact of our love of climbing and for others an unexpected and unwanted experience. However you get one, don't get dishearted. In this article, I share some of my experiences with injuries and how I've managed to get back on the wall. Hopefully, it might help you too!

Books are an excellent source of both training and insight to improving your climbing. They could also be a source of inspiration or just a bit of entertainment to get you off to sleep. 

Climbing is really coming into the limelight as are films about it, with top-notch production and the Hollywood treatment but there are some excellent older films too that document the evolution of this fascinating activity.  

When considering equipment, the best investment (and first) you can make in improving your climbing is buying a good pair of rock shoes. If you’ve only used street shoes you notice an instant leap in performance and grip. But buying your first pair of climbing shoes can feel tricky - they aren’t your normal pair of street shoes afterall.