NEWS
-
Sustainable Bouldering Festival
Spring is coming! While the cool cold sending temps may be gone soon, it's always good to find an excuse to go to Fontainebleau.And we found you a good one: from May 6th to May 8th there will the very first "Festival of Sustainable Bouldering" will be held in Milly-La-Foret.An opportunity to celebrate climb, learn, and
Read more -
Free Magic Chalk for Our Backers
When last year in November we launched our campaign to switch to seawater-based chalk, we didn’t expect COVID to tie up the supply chain all the way until February 2022.But here we are, February 2022 and our regular seawater-based chalk is not ready. The good news is that we have a higher-grade formula in stock today:
Read more -
The Magic of Climbing
You ask a kid “What is so magic about climbing?” Or skiing or surfing for that matter; and there’s a good chance they’ll say: “all of it”. There’s a lot of truth in a kid’s words. “All of it” captures it quite well. “All of it”. It’s an answer that includes the lifestyle, the beauty of moving over rock, the terror, and
Read more -
COVID & Deliveries
We’ve been out of stock since the beginning of this year on our regular Chalk Cream line and were expecting a new production batch to be delivered as early as February.But this week, we received a production warning from our tube manufacturer that there will be no further deliveries until the middle of April due to COV
Read more -
Boycott Black Friday
This year we are inviting all climbers to boycott Black Friday. We’re not a big fan of the shameless consumerism on display on the first Friday after Thanksgiving.Black Friday is pretty bad for the environment. The buying spree fuels climate change and wastes scarce resources to drive sales of cheap goods that will ine
Read more -
Innovation & Performance
Now that the word is out on our new chalk with Upsalite®, it’s time to talk a bit about how we got there. From the very beginning when we started CHALK REBELS, we noticed that in the chalk market there’s a lot of blah blah but very little innovation.And that is due to the hard fact that magnesium carbonate is a pretty
Read more -
Product Line Update
The theme since summer has been product innovation at CHALK REBELS. In a way that is thanks to COVID. Let's just say it is extremely tough to be a supplier to gyms when the gyms themselves are going out of business due to COVID lockdowns. Because of this, we essentially shut down our sales efforts until after summer an
Read more -
CHALK REBELS Liquid Chalk With Upsalite®
After a couple of months of work AND a much-needed upgrade to seawater-based-chalk, we're finally ready to present our full product line-up. Soon we'll be introducing a new line of high-performance chalk which contains Upsalite®: a new form of magnesium carbonate which absorbs moisture up to 10x. We're super excited ab
Read more -
Chalk Cream Update
The response to our pre-sale of the seawater-based chalk has been amazing! We reached our goal in 24h, which means we will be able to ship the updated formula in the new packaging in February 2022.We’re very happy the response has been so positive because it confirms that all of the effort we put into making the cleane
Read more -
Climber's Chalk Made From Seawater
We've been working hard this summer to bring you product innovations that will lessen our environmental impact and help you climb harder. Today we're ready to reveal the first innovation. We have switched our production from magnesium carbonate mined from the earth to a source that is synthesised from seawater. And we'
Read more