South Beta Podcast

It has been a long time since we have recorded or posted an episode. The world changed in 2020 and the podcast went on break. This is a quick come back. Hear us catch up and try to start out with this new chapter in our adventure to untangle the knot.

This episode has been in the making for years. On this episode, our good friend and head route setter at Planet Granite Sunnyvale, Adriel Rodriguez, joins us to talk about his passion for all things climbing. We talk about how he designs his own training, how coaching one sport translates to another, and what still drives his passion for Climbing after starting over 12 years ago. Evan continually calls this: "maybe our best episode yet." Come check it out!

In this episode we unpack what this podcast means for us and where we want to take it in the future. Evan has been trying to convince Zack for ages that the podcast could be better and in this episode, Zack almost listens.

We were guests in a friends house so we decided to record an episode. This being our first episode of 2020 and our first episode in nearly a year of recording, we spent much of the time getting back into the swing of things. Hope you all enjoy it.

This was recorded in Febuary 2019 during SF Beer week. We talk about Zack joining the El Cap team and the new Belmont acroyoga class. Super exciting. Was supposed to be shared back then. Sorry for the delay.

This is almost like a year recap episode. We get back to chatting about various climbing related topics. Enjoy at your own risk.

In this episode we welcome back our special guest Bridget to ask Dr. Evan Pearce some super special questions about how he projects a climb. Humor ensues.

Earth Treks and Planet Granite merged late last year and we finally have a chance to ask our questions and Evan does his best to answer them.

After a long break between episodes we talk about what it would take to do the bill wall project we have been planning for 2018. There is also a bunch of PG news and some other catch up stuff.

We invite our friend Justin to come in and talk about how he has progressed in a multi decade long climbing career. How has he kept himself engaged in the sport? How has goals shifted over time? Listen and find out.

We had no real content to talk about in this episode so we just bantered for an hour and half about random stuff, concluding with a giant discussion about LeBron James and Steph Curry. Listen at your own risk.

In this episode we talk about Tommy Caldwell and the book he just released called the push. We talk about the event at Planet Granite where Tommy came to speak and talk about the polite way to talk to professional climbers, though I'm not sure we reach any definitive conclusion.

In this episode we talk about the staff competition and how great it was. We also have a special guest Bridget that explains how she was able to push through her personal fears and improve her level on sport climbing.

This episode is a little bit ranty. We start with the idea of talking about lead climbing but end up hitting a very wide range of topics from our spirit animals to acro yoga and back to climbing again. There is som trash talking about the upcoming staff competition as well as talking about the Ohm, a new resistive climbing device to help compensate for my weight.

A random road trip happened over the President's Day weekend. Evan and I talk about our adventure in Utah. We continuely mock the audience size of our podcast.

In this episode we delve into the particular aspact of climbing known as bouldering. We talk about history of boulder, training, and provide some tips for improving your bouldering abilities.

It's been a long time since we've uploaded an episode, but here's a new one. We have decided to shift the format up a bit and talk a bit more about finger issues and various other climbing performance suggestions before we go into our climbing updates. Hopefully the new format will provide a bit more structure and maybe fewer tangents.

In this episode we first introduce Claire VanGo, where we host this episode. The intro has been updated to better stress what we cover, this is a personal exploration through the climbing community and climbing lifestyle. We start covering the different types of climbing but run out of clock. Consider this episode to be continued.

This is our third installment of our South Beta podcast. We talk about various topics including our outdoor climbing adventures, the three stitch pitch, and seeing Alex Honnald from a far.

Introduction to the podcast series.