Bouldering: Movement, Tactics, and Problem Solving (Moes) (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert) [Paperback]

Peter Beal (Author), Forward by Dave Graham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2011 | Series: Mountaineers Outdoor Expert

You'll solve bouldering problems like a pro with A-to-Z advice on getting it done with style.

Includes technical photographs, charts, and illustrations.
Contributing photography and advice from Dave Graham, Daniel Woods, Jamie Emerson, and many others.
Appendix highlights top bouldering destinations all over the world.
The latest addition to the Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series, BOULDERING: MOVEMENT, TACTICS, AND PROBLEM SOLVING demonstrates not just the basics of how to boulder, but also how to get better at it and take it to the next level. Whether you're a beginning climber who just started at the local gym, a competitive sport climber looking for a new challenge, or an aging alpinist who needs to take a season off from high-altitude, this guidebook offers something for everyone pursuing the art of bouldering: gear, movement, tactics, training, injury prevention, competitions, and more. Contributing photography and insights come from climbers such as Dave Graham, Jamie Emerson, Paul Robinson, Chris Schulte, Daniel Woods, Ty Landman, and many others, and an appendix highlights many of the top bouldering destinations all over the world.

Editorial Reviews

Review

a well-organized and highly informative resource for almost any level of climber. -- --Carlo Traversi, Rock & Ice magazine

Beal was able to weave together the hard facts, tactics, and movement of bouldering with the reasons that we want to boulder in the first place. ---Deadpoint Magazine

Bouldering - Movement, Tactics and Problem Solving is just an excellent training book that is actually almost as interesting for route climbers. There are 224 pages worth of reading including everything you need and it targets everything from beginners to the advanced boulderer. --8a.nu

About the Author

Peter Beal has been climbing for more than 30 years and has focused on the sport of bouldering from the very start. Although he has bouldered at most of the major areas in the United States, he can most often be found climbing in his home state of Colorado, where he lives in Boulder with his family. A previous contributor to ROCK AND ICE, CLIMBING, ALPINIST, and UKCLIMBING.COM, you can follow his writing at MOUNTAINSANDWATER.COM.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books (October 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594855005
• ISBN-13: 978-1594855009
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #469,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Mountaineering > Rock Climbing

More About the Author

I have been climbing for over 30 years and bouldering since the very beginning. Writing this book was an exciting opportunity for me to distill the knowledge and experiences I have had at locations across the United States, including locales such as the Front Range in Colorado, Joe's Valley in Utah, Bishop California and Hueco Tanks, as well as the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

I started bouldering in New England where I did numerous first ascents in Maine and continued climbing ever since. I am a dedicated boulderer even in my late 40s, doing a number of double digit problems, including a likely V12, my hardest yet.

I am confident that this book is the best resource you can find for getting started as a boulderer as well as a guide for improving to an elite level.

Here are two links that explain more about my book:

http://www.theboulderingbook.com/2011/11/my-book-is-out-and-why-you-should-buy.html

http://www.theboulderingbook.com/2011/12/who-should-buy-my-book.html

Please visit my blogs at www.mountainsandwater.com and www.theboulderingbook.com to find out more about my activities as a climber.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed yet concise November 28, 2011

By Owen Summerscales

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This is the best book Ive read that covers bouldering as a stand-alone sport, separate in its own right from trad and sport climbing. Beal has taken incredible care to describe the minutiae of this craft, and pretty much everything you can conceive of has been dealt with in an even, eloquent manner.

This is not a training book - do not buy this expecting to find details of weight exercises to make you strong. Look elsewhere for that. It's a coherent overview of the art of bouldering as a fusion of strength with agility and coordination, and places an emphasis on the latter. If you boulder enough, you'll get the former anyway.

The book works for those at many levels, for the absolute beginner up to those who have been bouldering fervently for years and want to up their game. Im glad I bought it!

2.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time February 4, 2013

By TK

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Instruction was limited. Chapter on basic movement was very good.
The rest of the time it was about PUSH PUSH PUSH your limits.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars OK knowledge for a beginner December 11, 2011

By NeoPaleo

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I purchased this book expecting to find some insight to help me break through to the next level in this sport. As an intermediate/advanced boulderer (v6-v7) I didn't find much useful information in this book that I didn't already know. For the beginner this book might be a good resource, as much of the book is written for an audience with no familiarity with the sport. For the intermediate or advanced athlete, however, there isn't much valuable information here.

A much better buy for the money would be Self Coached Climber by Douglas and Hunter, or even the venerable Performance Rock Climbing by Goddard and Neuman.