All episodes
E223: Jenya Kazbekova - Dreamcatcher, Ukraine, breaking new ground after becoming a mum
E222: Tom Randall - Risk, suffering, inconvenient data and hanging out under bridges
E221: Ollie Torr - ARCing, coaching and making gains whilst watching Netflix
E220: The most influential boulderer knockout tournament *Exclusionary criteria apply*
E219: Noah Wheeler - Board styling in Squamish, ego and sacking it all off to go play tennis
E218: Michael Rosato - Tension, Board Lords, Bilbo vs Brad Pitt
E217: Jakob Schubert - Are the best climbers in the world lead climbers?
E216: Round Table - Benn's back! Catch up and rambling
E215: James Pearson - Finnish Line, Exodia and trips with kids
E214: Louis Parkinson & Joel Robertson will help you Get a Grip
E213: Charlie Schreiber - New coaching program, goal adjudication and climbing when time-poor
E212: CTCP X Backseat Climbing - Hot takes and strong opinions well defended
E211: Ben Moon - The Moon Spray, the next step in the evolution of commercial boards
E210: Jen Wood - Climbing 9a, running and mindless ARCing
E209 : Billy Ridal's Grand Day Out
E208: Red Pill vs Blue Pill game, controversy and summer training updates
E207: *NSFW* Lillian Frances - Fingerbanging for climber boys, communication, consent
EE206: Paul 'Huffy' Houghoughi - New digital training devices, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and other injuries
E205: Eric Bissell - Yosemite ranging and film making
E204: Roundtable with Hamish McArthur and Ethan Salvo
E203: A 'big year' for climbing, commercial boards and how much could you suffer for gains?
E202: Tristan Chen - Recovery, pottery and the similarities between bouldering and birding
E201: Yannick Flohe - Big sends, big downgrades, let's sort this mess out
E200: 9A boulderer draft, Squamish and chat
E199: Natalia Grossman - Success, setbacks and prioritising mental health
E198: Sam, Aidan & Katie - Pride, confidence, projects and hypotheticals
E197: Connor Herson - Quick ascents of the hardest trad routes in the world, drifters escape and trad style/ethics
E196: Jana Švecová - 8C first ascents, Terranova and injury comebacks
E195: Yosemite season round up, news and desert island boulders
E194: Bruce Zou - The first Chinese person to climb 8C talks barefoot sends, quick progression and grade chasing
E193: Max Milne - Winning the PCL, campusing The Ace and injury comebacks
E192: Round Table - We've got to talk about Ondra and D&D alignment chart
E191: Allison Vest - Climbing 'big boy' boulders and the work behind the success
E190: Keenan Takahashi - 10 seconds of fear a year, the pros and cons of large egos and getting distracted by trees
E189: The Pro Climbing League, tactics and general chat
E188: Round Table - Anecdotes, talking points and ramble shambles
E187: Zach Galla - An incredible run of form, discussions on mindset, physicality and confidence
E186: We're back! Life updates, outdoor comps and climbing à la Netflix
E185: Talking with a climbing CEO, Ged from the Hangar offers his views from the other side of the aisle
E184: Aidan does an 'ask me anything' hosted by Katie Lamb
E183: The independent climbing gym special featuring Blocfit, Gym Sen and Rise
E182: Jim Pope - Yosemite big walling and New Zealand bouldering
E181: Round Table - Does climbing need grades? Cancellations and group therapy
E180: Will Bosi - Following inexhaustible psych, Silence, 9As and Scottish bouldering
E179: Aidan saves Christmas and meet the new year, same as the old year
E178: The future for indoor and outdoor climbing, coming off the fence about recent developments
E177: Niall Grimes - A general natter with a fixture of British (and presumably Irish) climbing
E176: Round Table - Climbing news, first 9A+, internet drama and hot takes
E175: Dayan Akhtar - Achieving incredible world cup consistency through self-coaching and the physical and mental challenges on the comp circuit
E174: Aidan's experience with Mount Doom and various rambles
E173: Ben Cossey - The situation down under, Action Directe, Groove Train, It's all lightweight baby!
E172: Round Table with Benn Wheeler and Katie Lamb, pub chat and Frankenclimber auctioning
E171: Eliot Stephens - A chat about development, tactics and guidebook writing with one of Wales' finest
E170: Will it be the red pill or the blue pill for Aidan?
E169: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk - Eat to climb, hard climbing post-motherhood and the fun vs achievement spectrum
E168: Aidan's plans, Trance and hypotheticals
E167: Stefano Ghisolfi - Transitioning into a boulder bro, hold fabrication and the collaborative future for elite sport climbing
E166: Adam Shahar - The Process, Burden, boards and World Cups
E165: 'Barefoot' Charles Albert - Footprints down the paths least travelled
E164: Zoe Wood and Ros Beveridge - Route setting pod Mk 2, this time with different perspectives!
163: Benn Wheeler - Wheel Rock, board climbs and rolls and rolls of euros
E162: Darth Grading, climbing ethics and Aidan getting bullied by trad climbers
E161: Ethan Salvo - Having an incredible trip without sending anything followed by one of the best ever weeks in Canadian climbing
E160: Adam Ondra - Legacy, the future, parenthood and rare failures amongst a litany of successes
E159: Another round table with Katie Lamb, general chats and the fantasy climbing auction
E158: Nicolai Uznik - Comps, Maltatal and a long journey to the top of Mount Doom
E157: Let's devise a 4th Olympic climbing discipline
E156: Brooke Raboutou - Growing up in a climbing family and climbing the highest grades whilst maintaining balance
E155: Natasha Barnes - Should we all be strength training?
E154: Austin Hoyt - The King of the North-East, Comp moves on rock and Lucid Dreaming
E153: Using danger for clicks, Aidan's hardest climb of the season and Sam forgets his shoes
E152: Daniel Woods - ROTSW, Alphane, shower gloves and the state of the game
E151: Kai Lightner -Comebacks, learning to work with the body you're in and climbing for change
E150: Ben Norman and Cailean Harker - Route setting deep dive, grades in indoor climbing and the state of the industry
E149: Aidan leaving Yosemite, new comp scoring and should sport climbers just bolt on resin holds
E148: Eric Jerome - Searching for the best boulders, life lessons and working for KAYA
E147: Katie Lamb, the first woman to climb V16...again.
E146: Charlie Schreiber - Hot takes, life lessons and internet drama with one of the best hype men in the game
E145: Will Anglin - Board climbing nerdery, Tension, what is training anyway?
E144: Carlo Traversi - Motivation, Yosemite and developing the hardest V12s in the world
E143: Allison Vest - Outdoor projecting, dealing with pressure and titanium tendons
E142: Jonathan Sin - Trying to become a world cup climber after starting (relatively) late
E141: Martin Keller - Defying aging and injuries to keep climbing harder than ever
E140: Moral conundrums and hot takes special featuring Katie Lamb
E139: The 9A tier list episode... and also shoes
E138: Jesse Dufton - Overcoming degenerative sight loss to climb harder than ever
E137: Jim Pope - Adventures, Comps and Mushrooms
E136: Nathan Phillips - Climbing 8C+, crazy ideas and roasting Sam's climbing
E135: Aidan's new hardest projects in Yosemite, and why he can't drag himself away
E134: Katie Lamb - A great set of rambles with one of the world's best scalers
E133: Matt Bird - Why does a climber need a manager? A little look into the shadowy world of athlete contracts.
E132: Toby Roberts - Winning the Olympic gold, heavy training schedules and board climbing feats of strength
E131: Paul Robinson - Last great projecting, taking control of your own narrative and Lucid Dreaming
E130: Hamish McArthur - Climbing with spirit, Olympic pressure and turning climbing into a (very good) job
E129: Farewell to 2024, our review of the year
E128: The Christmas Special quiz! Featuring Sam Lawson and Billy Ridal
E127: Stian Christophersen - Reducing time spent off the wall due to injury, injuries in general and the Climbing Bible
E126: The training tool tier list episode
E125: Ethan Salvo - Enjoying the present, sending hard and being content
E124: Where is Aidan? Is climbing a sport? Can we liberate ourselves from our ego?