Climb
Expert Advice on Learning How to Lead Climb in the Gym
When you are a beginner learning to climb, you'll spend most of your time climbing with auto belays, top-rope climbing, or bouldering. These climbing styles are great when you are learning the basics of climbing technique and belaying skills. Once you are confident on a top-rope, it's time to take ...
Read More
Developing a Business Strategy for Your Climbing Gym
The climbing gym is a modern-day playground for adults, but it's more than just play for everyone involved. Just like climbers take their sport seriously, gym owners don't play around when it comes to their business. They have to balance the books just like anybody else. In this post, we'll cover ...
Read More
Head Rush: Engineering the Best Adventure Products
Our goal at Head Rush is to help create the best rider experiences and to improve operations for climbing facilities, adventure providers, and zip line operators. The zipSTOP Zip Line brake came to be when we saw an opportunity to create a braking experience that is hands-free for the rider while ...
Read More
Expert Advice for Rock Climbing Endurance Training
Chris Wall is a highly recognized trainer and coach who works at the Boulder Rock Club as head trainer and coaching director. He has been sharing his experience with climbers of all abilities for over 20 years. Chris earned a master's degree is exercise physiology and is a NSCA Certified Strength ...
Read More
Tips for Taking a Beginner Rock Climbing (AKA Getting Your Friends Hooked on Climbing)
It's fun to share your favorite activities with friends and family, and as climbers, we want to introduce everyone in our life to the vertical playground. Climbing is a lifelong sport that welcomes people of all abilities, but that doesn't mean it's easy to do or easy to get started. You want to ...
Read More
Climbing Questions Answered: What is Belaying Anyway?
Ascending up a 30 foot wall or hanging on the edge of a 100 foot cliff, rock climbing is our way of defying gravity and experiencing a challenge beyond the ordinary day to day. Climbing is an exhilarating and difficult sport that of course comes with some complex equipment and intricate ...
Read More
Winter is Coming! How to Stay Psyched on Climbing
The winter chill is settling in and fewer days are warm enough to climb or recreate outside. As we spend more time pulling plastic, you're probably wondering how to stay focused and psyched on climbing. We have a few ideas to mix up your climbing routine and to keep your psych tank topped off. ...
Read More
Arboreal Tree Climbing: Unique Outdoor Gift Ideas for Kids
Tree climbing is a natural impulse for kids, but does that inclination really go away with age? Or are we all just looking for that opportunity to climb again? The new Arboreal Tree Climbing Kit from Head Rush Technologies makes it easy and fun for all ages to explore the trees! Recently launched ...
Read More
How to Build a Climbing Community: 6 Tips for Your Wall
Climbing is exploding in popularity across the U.S. and climbing walls are becoming a staple in cities, at campus recreation centers, at summer camps, and more. Part of the appeal is the unique workout that climbing offers. To finish a route, climbers must combine balance, strength, and ...
Read More
How to Set Climbing Routes: Pro Tips for Great Routes
If you climb indoors, you rely on the route setters who put up those ever-changing plastic puzzles. They are the ones who let us try new moves, challenge ourselves, and climb with friends when we're climbing indoors. The routes are the one element in the gym that are constantly changing. What ...
Read More