Claire O’Hara

Double World Champion: Freestyle kayak and squirt

Claire won double Gold and became World Champion in Freestyle Kayaking and Squirt Boating at the 2011 ICF World Championships.

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Back a pack

So Status update and hopefully a little useful information, I have finished the move to North...

Posted on 27 April, 2012 by Dan Bradley

On the road to nowhere… getting back to fitness

I get asked a lot how to get fit or get better at climbing. Most of the time my answer is the...

Posted on 06 February, 2012 by Dan Bradley

Youth Climbing Series Final

On June 25th-26th Wolf Mountain based at Wolverhampton held the Midlands Climbing Festival,...

Posted on 06 July, 2011 by Dan Bradley

Fontainebleau Coaching Week

So the annual trip to the bouldering Mecca Font has happened once again, on February 19th 12...

Posted on 07 March, 2011 by Dan Bradley

YCS final round at the Edge

So after the two previous rounds of the Youth Climbing Series at the Foundry in Sheffield and...

Posted on 05 March, 2011 by Dan Bradley

The Rab Bouldering League at The Edge

On Sunday Naomi, Flo and Gracie took part it the final round of the Rab junior bouldering...

Posted on 04 March, 2011 by Dan Bradley

Searching for ice on the Ben

So on Thursday evening me and the Captain (Alex Dalton) set off to beautiful rainy and warm...

Posted on 09 February, 2011 by Dan Bradley

BMC Youth Climbing Series Round 2 - 2011

Editors note: Dan is currently lost in a whiteout somewhere in Scotland, so this latest report...

Posted on 06 February, 2011 by Dan Bradley

Youth Climbing Series Round 1 Nottingham Climbing Centre

On the 22nd of January Nottingham Climbing Centre held the first round of the BMC Youth...

Posted on 26 January, 2011 by Dan Bradley

British bouldering championships 2011

So it was an early start, I left Nottingham at 5.30am to go pick up Kenny, our aim was to get...

Posted on 19 January, 2011 by Dan Bradley

British bouldering championships 2011

So it was an early start, I left Nottingham at 5.30am to go pick up Kenny, our aim was to get...

Posted on 18 January, 2011 by Dan Bradley

BRYCS final, Ratho 2010

This event is getting bigger and better each year. 187 competitors turned up for the final...

Posted on 14 June, 2010 by Dan Bradley

Albarracin and ash clouds

Albarracin is situated in Spain between Valencia and Zaragoza and offers an excellent...

Posted on 14 May, 2010 by Dan Bradley

Juniors at Font

A couple of weeks ago a few members of the junior climbing team made it out to Font. The team...

Posted on 03 March, 2010 by Dan Bradley

Team Crush at Font

Becki Hall, Hannah Beresford, Gracie Martin, Luke Tilley, Edd Mowbray, Billy Rydal and Tom...

Posted on 01 March, 2010 by Dan Bradley

My Climbing Series

The My Climbing Series competitions have been taking place over the winter. It is a competition...

Posted on 09 February, 2010 by Dan Bradley

Majorca Deep water solo/accident epic

The last few years I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time in Majorca, in fact my last blog...

Posted on 04 February, 2010 by Dan Bradley

Ice ice baby

Well the annual Ice fest was on in L’Argentière la Bessée in the Ecrin. After last year’s...

Posted on 01 February, 2010 by Dan Bradley

BMC open youth competition

On Saturday 28th September there was a competition at Awesome Walls in Liverpool. Most of the...

Posted on 02 December, 2009 by Dan Bradley

Majorca DWS trip Sept 09

Well with summer coming to an end and not getting much sun it was a time for a trip away, the...

Posted on 07 October, 2009 by Dan Bradley

Tattershall Castle gets new E10 6C

Sometime late in August a team of average climbers took up the challenge of putting a new route...

Posted on 22 September, 2009 by Dan Bradley

Poorly!

Well I’ve been having an ongoing saga with my knees for quite some time! I had a fall at...

Posted on 05 May, 2009 by Dan Bradley

El Chorro

If you have never been or never even heard of El Chorro then this is definitely a venue worth...

Posted on 29 April, 2009 by Dan Bradley

Climbing Works International Festival

CWIF is an international bouldering competition held at the Climbing Works, it attracts some of...

Posted on 09 March, 2009 by Dan Bradley

Plastic Fantastic

Plastic Fantastic was held at the Nottingham Climbing Centre on Sunday 1st Feb, it was a mixed...

Posted on 24 February, 2009 by Dan Bradley

Alps Massif trip!

Well this was to be one of the most action packed weekend I’ve had without falling off or...

Posted on 06 February, 2009 by Dan Bradley

6 days and nights with Alex

So we popped out to Fontainebleau for a few days which proved to be a mistake…
It rains a lot...

Posted on 20 November, 2008 by Dan Bradley

A summer in the Alps

This was started with the Tout a Bloc climbing fest, a fest that was amazing not just for the...

Posted on 26 August, 2008 by Dan Bradley