This is a collection of free rock climbing tutorials on the web for those of you who are passionate about climbing and seeking to become a better climber.
Whether you are a beginner with no experience at all or a veteran who has been climbing for years, I hope you can find something useful.
Keep calm and climb on.
- Introduction
- Rock Climbing Gear
- Understanding Climbing Grades
- Understanding Climbing Lingo
- How to Tie Climbing Knots
- How to Belay
- How to Build Anchors
- Top Rope and Lead Climbing
- Bouldering
- Trad Climbing
- Rock Climbing Technique
- Rock Climbing Training
- Further Reading and Learning
- How to collaborate
Rock Climbing for Beginners - Introduction To Rock Climbing
The Beginner's Guide to Rock Climbing
How to Rock Climb – The Beginners Guide
How to Get Started: 10 Pro Tips for Rock-Climbing Beginners
The 10 Things You Need to Know Before You Go Rock Climbing
Rock Climbing for Beginners - Rock Climbing Gear
Guide to Beginner Rock Climbing Essentials
How to Dress for Indoor Rock Climbing
How to choose your climbing shoes by Pietro Dal Pra
How To Pick The Perfect Climbing Shoe For You
Climbing Technique For Beginners - Episode - 4 - Shoes
2017 New Climbing Shoes - See Them All!
How to Choose the Best Rock Climbing Shoes
Gear Guide: Review of the Best Shoes for Bouldering, Sport, and Trad Climbing
Best Rock Climbing Shoes For Beginners
Best Rock Climbing Shoes Of 2016
Review: Our Top Climbing Shoes For 2016
Climbing Shoes: How to Clean, Resole & Care For
The Best Rock Climbing Shoes for Indoor and Outdoor Use
Rock Climbing Shoes, from Beginner to Expert
Review: Our Top 11 Rock Climbing Shoes
How to Pick the Right Harness for Indoor Climbing
What Is The Best Entry-Level Climbing Harness?
How to Choose a Climbing Harness
How to Choose the Best Climbing Harness
Rock Climbing Gear Guide: Best Harnesses
How to Pick the Right Carabiners for Indoor Climbing
Rock Climbing Gear Guide: Carabiners
What's The Best Carabiner For Use With Belay Devices?
All the Belay Devices Coming in 2017 - Black Diamond, Edelrid, Petzl, Wild Country
Examples of dangerous carabiner loading
How to Pick the Right Belay Device for Indoor Climbing
What Is The Best Belay Device For Sport Climbing?
All the Belay Devices Coming in 2017 - Black Diamond, Edelrid, Petzl, Wild Country
Rock Climbing Gear Guide: Best Belay Devices
Beta by Boyko: Everything You Need to Know About Rock Climbing Ropes
The 4 Things You Need To Consider When Buying A Climbing Rope
How to Choose a Rope With Steph Davis
Best Climbing Ropes: The Top 6 of 2017
How to Clean & Wash Climbing Rope: Care Guide
Top 10 Best Rock Climbing Ropes 2017
2016 Rock Climbing Ropes (Beal, Edelrid, Maxim, Roca)
Rock Climbing Gear Guide: Best Ropes
Climbing Gear: Choosing The Right Quickdraws For Your Climb
Rock Climbing Gear Guide: Best Quickdraws
Best Quickdraws: The Top 5 of 2017
How To Clip A Quickdraw: Rock Climbing Basics
Rock Climbing Basics: Clipping a Quickdraw
The Best Lightweight Climbing Helmet
How to Choose the Best Climbing Helmet
Climbing Magazine's Unscientific Helmet Test
No-Brainer? Why Do So Many Climbers Not Wear Helmets?
How to Choose the Best Chalk Bags & Chalk
How to Use Chalk for Indoor Climbing
How to Use Rock Climbing Chalk
How to Build Your First Trad Rack: Best Gear for Getting Started
Rock Climbing Basics: Intro to Cams
Rock Climbing Basics: Intro to Nuts
Climbing Cams & Tube Chocks: Active Climbing Protection
Passive Climbing Protection: Hexes, Chocks & Nuts
Climbing Slings, Cord and Webbing: How to Choose
Your First Trad Rack: What to Buy
How to Understand Indoor Climbing Grades
Unsent: Understanding Climbing Grades
Climbing Grades: Comparison Chart and Rating Systems Overview
Climbing Grades: Climbing/Bouldering Rating Systems
How to Use Commands before Top-Rope Climbing
How to Use Commands during Top-Rope Climbing
How to Understand Climbing Terminology
Rock Climbing Dictionary: A Guide to Essential Terms and Slang
How to Understand Indoor Rock Climbing Terminology
Climbing Knots, Hitches and Bends
How to Tie Rock Climbing Knots
How-to Tie Common Climbing Knots
Climbing Knots Tutorial - Figure Eight, Clove Hitch, Overhand on a Bight
How to Tie Figure 8 Follow-Through Knot for Indoor Climbing
How to Tie the Figure 8 Follow Through Loop
Rock Climbing Basics: Clove Hitch and Figure 8 Knots
How to Set Up a Top-Rope Belay for Indoor Climbing
How to Use Proper Top-Rope Belay Method for Indoor Climbing
How to Lower a Climber in Top-Rope Belay
How to Use an Auto-Belay Device for Indoor Climbing
How to belay the leader with a REVERSO
How to belay the leader with a GRIGRI
Rock Climbing: Building a Top-Rope Anchor Using the Quad
Building Rock Climbing Anchors: Basic Principles
How to Build Rock Climbing Anchors
How To Build An Anchor With Two Slings And Three Pieces
Rock Climbing: Cleaning a Top Rope Anchor
Rock Climbing Basics: Cleaning a Sport Anchor
How To Clean A Top Rope Anchor
How to Set and Clean a Top-Rope Anchor
Sport Climbing Basics: Tips & Technique
How to Use a Quickdraw: Clipping Techniques
How to Clip on Lead for Indoor Rock Climbing
How to Lead Belay for Indoor Rock Climbing
How to Take & Catch a Lead Fall for Indoor Climbing
5 Tips for Lead Climbing in Indoor Rock Climbing
How to Spot for Indoor Rock Climbing
Rock Climbing: Building a Top-Rope Anchor Using the Quad
Rock Climbing: Cleaning a Top Rope Anchor
Bouldering 101 with Waylon Lewis & Jackie Hueftle
Rock Climbing for Beginners - Bouldering
5 Advanced Bouldering Techniques for Indoor Climbing
6 Bouldering Safety Tips for Indoor Rock Climbing
12 Tips to a Successful Bouldering Strategy
5 Bouldering Tips for How To Improve Your Dyno-ing Technique
Flowchart: Should You Start Trad Climbing?
Essentials of Climbing: Trad Climbing
Learn to Climb Trad: Gear Placements and Anchors
Learn to Climb Trad: Knots, Rappelling, and Logistics
Learn to Climb Trad: Leading and Following
Trad Rack Basics: Build a Climbing Rack
How to Build Your First Trad Rack: Best Gear for Getting Started
How to rack for trad climbing with Beth Rodden
Lead Climbing: How to Place Trad Gear
How to Crack Climb: Technique & Tips
My Warm Up Routine For Climbing - Eric Karlsson Bouldering
How to Warm Up for Rock Climbing: 4 Must-Do Exercises Before Pulling Hard
Learn This: How to Warm-Up for Rock Climbing
How To Warm Up For Climbing With Louis Parkinson
How to Grip Indoor Climbing Holds
Climbing Holds: How to Use Them
Climbing Technique For Beginners - Episode 2 - Hand Placement
Rock Climbing: How to Climb Finger Cracks
Rock Climbing: How to Jam Hand Cracks
Climbing Technique For Beginners - Episode 1- Foot Placement
How to Use Heel & Toe Hooks for Indoor Climbing
Climbing Expert Advice: Foot position
Climbing Expert Advice: Balance training
Climbing Expert Advice: Rest position
Climbing Technique For Beginners - Episode 5 - Hips
Climbing Techniques: How to Flag
Rock Climbing Technique for Intermediates : Flagging
8 Neil Greshams Masterclass - Flag
Depot Climbing technique: flagging
PG Climbing Basics Episode 8: Flagging with John
Static vs. Dynamic Movement in Indoor Rock Climbing
How to Do a Dyno in Indoor Rock Climbing
Climbing Technique For Intermediate - Episode 1 - Dynos
Rock Climbing : How to Dyno in Rock Climbing
10 Things You Didn't Know about Dynos
Climbing Technique For Beginners - Eric Karlsson
Gym to Crag: Learning to Climb Outdoors
Rock Climbing Techniques & Moves
5 Fundamentals of Indoor Rock Climbing
Rock Climbing: Climbing Techniques
How to Understand Indoor Rock Climbing Sequencing
How to Solve Rock Climbing Problems Based on Body Type
Injury free movement for rock climbers
Climbing Technique For Beginners - Episode 3- Gym Routine
Rock Climbing Training with Robbie Phillips - Ep. 1 (Theory of Training)
Rock Climbing Training with Robbie Phillips - Ep. 2 (Base Level Endurance)
Rock Climbing Training with Robbie Phillips - Ep. 3 (Strength Basics)
Rock Climbing Training with Robbie Phillips - Ep. 4 (Power Endurance)
Rock Climbing Training with Robbie Phillips - Ep. 5 (The Art of Resting)
Rock Climbing Training with Robbie Phillips - Ep. 6 (Transfer)
Rock Climbing Training with Robbie Phillips - Ep. 7 (Outtakes)
Further reading: Climbing Training With Robbie Phillips
8 Pro Climbers Share Their Top Training Tips
The Ultimate Indoor Rock Climbing Workout
Rock Climbing/Bouldering Cross Training Tips
Strength Training Tips From a Champion Climber
How to Use a Campus Board for Indoor Rock Climbing
How to Use a Hangboard for Indoor Climbing
Indoor Climbing Safety Guidelines & Etiquette
Matthew Childs 9 Rules of Rock Climbing
Forearm Stretching Exercise And Wrist Exercise
My Warm Up Routine For Climbing
Rock Climbing Warmup and Flexibility Boost
The Math of Rock Climbing: Fall factor
Reel Rock Film Tour - The REEL ROCK Film Tour brings the best climbing and adventure films of the year to live audiences throughout the world.
Valley Uprising - Generations of beatniks and madmen drop out of society and take up a life of rock climbing on the massive granite walls of Yosemite National Park.
What are you up against? - Tommy Caldwell
Just climb through it - Ashima Shiraishi
Why I Climb & How I Still Climb 5.13 When I'm Nearly 50
FOREVER – It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
The World's 10 Coolest Climbing Gyms
Unsent: 100 Reasons Why We Climb
5 Climbing Organizations You Should Care About
Top 25 Best Rock Climbing Books
The Crag - The largest collaborative rock climbing & bouldering platform
Mountain Project Good US/Canada-coverage, fairly useless elsewhere, OK interface, generally not a good crag guide
Rakkup - They digitalize lots of guide books
ClimbingAway - ClimbingAway indexes more than 6000 rock climbing areas all around the world with maximum of informations, accurate locations, gorgeous pictures, frequently updated by climbers community.
MyClimb - Log your climbs and track climbing progress. Find climbing partners. Learn about new areas from others climbers and photos / video.
If you find any mistakes, broken link or you want to suggest a new resource, don't hesitate to send me an email. You can also summit any interesting articles, books, videos, apps.
I'd love to hear from you how I can improve this guide to help more climbers.
Any Feedback is welcome