The Careless Talk Climbing Podcast

Simon Lorenzi, the triple 9A climber, discusses his achievements, climbing experiences, and balancing rest for optimal performance. The conversation covers exploring 9A climbs, climbing styles, authenticity, emotional challenges, sponsorships, career shifts, and pushing bouldering limits. They also touch on encouraging conversations and future plans in the climbing world.

Join renowned coach and climber David Mason as he discusses training ideas, coping with a serious knee injury, and the genetics of finger strength in climbers. Dive into topics like mental resilience post-injury, unique finger strength hacks, and the consistency needed for climbing success. Discover the interesting debate on genetics vs. training in climbing performance and the impact of group dynamics on climbing sessions.

Discussion on training, social media impact, grading stresses, and the most physical form of climbing with Neil Gresham. Exploring the nuances of climbing disciplines, balancing solitude and social interaction, evolving climbing abilities, and sustaining motivation in climbing.

Noah Wheeler joins the hosts to discuss his recent ascents, climbing style, and training. They explore the differences in climbing difficulties across regions and rock types in the UK and US. Noah shares his transition from competition climbing to outdoor climbing, as well as insights on climbing grades and training techniques. The chapter also covers sibling climbing dynamics and experiences climbing in Japan and studying abroad in China.

In this podcast, the hosts discuss the complexities of climbing grades, share recommendations for unique climbs, explore the history of climbing grades and their evolution, reminisce on historic climbing achievements, debate controversies in grading climbs, and even delve into the mysteries of ancient Egypt in a light-hearted and entertaining manner.

Ben Moon, one of Britain's greatest climbers, discusses his career, training, and the birth of sport climbing. They also explore climbing media in the 1980s, controversy over using knee bars on historical routes, and the challenges of climbing at your limit. The conversation touches on the evolution of climbing holds, UK's infrastructure, and 3D scanning and printing. They conclude with updates on the Moonboard app and tips for training and climbing goals.

Psychologist Mimi White joins Sam and Aidan to discuss her recently published survey on the role of climbing in our lives. They explore the meaning of climbing, its impact on mental health, and the fine line between passion and obsession. They also delve into the connection between climbing and sports psychology, the limitations of focusing on climbing, and the role of climbing in personal growth. The hosts reflect on the emotional dependency they have on climbing, their day-to-day goals and energy balance, and the interdependence of brain and physicalities in climbing.

Yannick Flohé, one of the strongest climbers on the planet, discusses rocks, comps, training, and mindset in climbing competitions. They also explore weighted training, climbing style, speed training, financial assistance, the impact of mindset in climbing, favorite and worst types of boulder problems, challenges of full-time climbing, designing climbing walls, and wearing glasses while climbing.

Toby Segar, a big star in the Parkour world, talks about his recent foray into climbing and the similarities between the two sports. They discuss content creation, setting climbing routes and parkour obstacles, the impact of the Olympics on parkour, reflections on past injuries and fear as a muscle, the perception of danger in climbing and parkour, early experiences with filming and editing, the evolution of content and balancing work and personal relationships, navigating the challenges and benefits of teamwork, YouTube's algorithm and demonetization policies, the similarities and differences between climbing and parkour, rock climbing goals and inspiration, and the availability and appeal of climbing gyms and parkour in London.

Matthew Phillips joins us this week! He's only young but he's already had a sparkling career in the sport. A world champion, but also an incredibly humble and laid back guy who's now getting more involved with the routesetting and coaching side of the sport. His pragmatism and fearlessness in the face of challenges is infectious and we really enjoyed having an opportunity to chat to him! If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show