Newsletter Archive

Find all our past newsletters with crack climbing knowledge, insights and stories, all in one place

The Secret to Effortless Crack Climbing (It's not strength)

Hello Cracksters The Stick-Slip Point: Climbing Smarter, Not Harder I was filming some YouTube videos with Emil Abrahamsson the other day, and we stumbled upon something really interesting. We were experimenting with weighted Paddle Jams*, and even though E...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

STOP Making These 3 Common Crack Climbing Mistakes

Hello Cracksters Here’s the plan: I'll tell you the mistake. I'll explain why it's a bit of a pain. And of course, I'll give you the fix. Ready? Let’s roll! Mistake 1: Air Jamming (aka Jamming in Mid-Air) The Mistake: Basically, you’re setting up your ...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

3-easy-steps to get ahead in 2025

Hello Cracksters Great to be back with the crack community this month. I’ve enjoyed our monthly letters together throughout 2024, I can’t quite believe we’re heading into 2025 very soon With a new year, I always like to think of ways I can improve. So, in this email I’m going to give you thin...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

Mirror Wall - 4 ways crack gave success

Hello Cracksters I recently returned from a trip to Greenland where I was successful on climbing a new route on Mirror Wall; A 1000m big wall in the arctic. Everyday I was always reminded how useful crack climbing is in the mountains. Through Wide Boyz and ‘the crack climbing community’ we sh...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

I answered your burning questions

Hello Cracksters You guys are doing an amazing job at helping spread the jamming joy around the world. Small things that we do collectively helps bring crack climbing to more people… …which is why I opened up our last newsletter to you guys, to ask me your burning questions, so we can share m...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

2 CRUCIAL techniques to make fist jams easier

Hello Cracksters Many people find fist jamming to be difficult when they start, but today I’m going to give you 2 things to think about to make fist life easier. Recently i’ve been deep into writing the first ever online crack climbing course (yes you are the first to hear about this, it is d...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

Easy things to learn from a World Cup climber

Hello Cracksters You can learn so much from climbing with new people! A few months back I had the pleasure of climbing with Sofya Yokoyama, a professional competition climber from Switzerland. I'm going to let you know 3 things that I learnt (both crack and none crack) from climbing with her...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

3 Techniques Crucial For Crack Success

Hello Cracksters With Crack Fest just around at the corner, I thought it would be an ideal time to run through the 3 crack techniques (upper body only) which I believe to be some of the most important. They are what we have taught at 100s of Crack Schools worldwide, and are the real staples o...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

Climbing with Adam Ondra, crucial lessons I learnt

Hello Cracksters Why is Adam Ondra the best climber in the world? and how can you take some of what he has and apply it to your own climbing? Well lucky for you, I’ve spent a number of days climbing with him now and being the analytical person that I am, I picked up on some little nuggets of gold...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

What makes the difference on a climbing project?

Hi Cracksters I know you’ve all been desperately waiting for this next newsletter after I left you hanging at the end of the last one…sorry about that ;) For those that missed the last one, I’m sharing 2 little hacks which helped me on my way to completing my hardest trad/crack climb a few we...

by Pete Whittaker — Dec 30, 2025

2 climbing hacks used to complete my project

Hey Cracksters I've got 2 sneaky little hacks for you today which helped me complete my latest project at The Profile Wall… I haven’t talked about this in any social media or video, so you guys are first to hear what made the difference. In this email, I’ll show you: The hacks and what made ...

by Pete Whittaker — Oct 07, 2025

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