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Climbing and Hyperhidrosis
Some people sweat like a greasy monkey in a sauna. The monkey part is good for climbing but not the sweaty part. Excessive sweating can be a serio...
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How to Use Climbing Chalk Balls?
Chalk balls are small cotton balls filled with ordinary magnesium carbonate powder. Manufacturers typically put a finer, non-chunky grind of chalk...
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How to Keep Your Favourite Bouldering Gym Dust Free
Chalk or magnesium carbonate powder can cause an excess of white dust in climbing gyms, especially in small confined spaces & training rooms. ...
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Climbing Chalk For Home Gyms
With COVID-19 we’ve seen a massive surge of people building home gyms as part of a broader boom in home fitness. It’s good to see people use climb...
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Can I Climb Indoor without Climbing Chalk?
Most people can climb with far less chalk than they think is needed. Some climbers with exceptionally dry hands don’t even need chalk at all. Chal...
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How to Use Chalk Powder
We don’t sell chalk powder. The whole purpose of our company is to reduce the use of chalk powder in the climbing world.
Our recommendation is to ...
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Crazy Shit Climbers Do: Hoofmaker
This story goes back a long time. Sometime not long after 9/11, I visited the United States for a bouldering trip. We hit areas like Bishop, Joe’s...
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How Much Does Chalk Cost?
Climbing Chalk or magnesium carbonate is sold in bags, blocks, buckets & bulk. There are significant differences in prices depending on the vo...
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How to Grind Climbing Chalk
The cheapest chalk often comes in block or in chunky form. Yet a lot of people prefer a finer texture while climbing. So let’s explore a couple of...
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Gyms, Germs & Copper
COVID is hitting indoor climbing gyms pretty hard. We can expect to be the first to lock down and the last to re-open. And with good reason actual...
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Climbing Chalk vs. Gym Chalk
Climbing chalk actually has its origins in gymnastics. John Gill had a background in gymnastics when he first introduced magnesium carbonate to th...
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Crazy Shit Climbers Do: Sanding Calluses with Pumice
Climbers have a love-hate relationship with their calluses. You don’t want them to be there when they inevitably rip & cause a massive flapper...
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