Comments on Mountains and Water: Andrew Bisharat's Sport Climbing Book: A Review

I agree with chuffer. Would love to see them put o...

2009-11-09T15:35:48.857-07:00

I agree with chuffer. Would love to see them put out a new revised edition. There's also the recent "Self Coached Climber" which remains somewhat under the radar but is an excellent, current training book.

Anonymous November 3 makes a good point. Training content is well-suited to the Internet. Sites like Dave MacLeod's onlineclimbingcoach.blogspot.com are a great source of information with the bonus of being interactive. But titles like Yosemite Climber, Climb!, the new Stonemasters, Freedom of the Hills, definitely deserve to be kept physically in hand.

P- Thanks for the review. I think that books on ge...

2009-11-05T07:48:07.679-07:00

P-
Thanks for the review. I think that books on general climbing instruction are maybe slowing down.

At this point I hope that books will start to specialize and focus on distinct topics within climbing.
Hopefully there will be more books that limit the scope of their climbing topics and do a better job w/ the material they do address.

I don't think the internet is going to be repl...

2009-11-03T10:19:16.416-07:00

I don't think the internet is going to be replacing Freedom of the Hills on anybody's shelf anytime soon, but maybe "How to Climb 5.12"?

Performance Rock Climbing (1993) by Dale Goddard a...

2009-11-02T15:53:03.836-07:00

Performance Rock Climbing (1993) by Dale Goddard and Udo Neumann remains "the bible" of any climber who wishes to get the most of what their genetic blueprint allows.