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🧗‍♀️16,000 sq ft state of the art climbing facility
💥100+ rope stations!
✨Kids programs available!
🔗More info in LINK below!

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My gym’s UpENDing Parkinson’s group was featured on Fox 29news this week!

I started this group at Gravity Vault Radnor over a year ago, with the help and support from the founder of UpENDing Parkinson’s, Molly Donelan-Cupka. I wanted to make a difference in the community and bring something new and meaningful to our gym. This group has given my life even more purpose than I could ever imagine. It’s been so uplifting and inspiring watching this Parkinson’s community grow as climbers and push themselves out of their comfort zone.

Benefits climbing has for PD: It helps train balance, coordination, strength, problem-solving, cardio, and most importantly, camaraderie. The community coming together to support one another is the part that brings me the most joy.

This group is free for those living with PD and happens every Wednesday at @gravityvault_radnor from 1:30pm-3pm. You can sign up on our website by searching Gravity Vault Radnor, clicking on calendar, find UpENDing Parkinson’s on Wednesday and click on the link that says “SIGN UP HERE.”

If you have any questions about the program, send me a message!

Special shouts 👉
• To the owner of GV Radnor, Zach Barber, for offering this group for free and giving us the space to host this every week. And also for stepping in to help whenever we’re short on volunteers! 🤘
• To Molly Donelan-Cupka for helping me bring this group to life and giving me all the support I need to run this group successfully 🫶
• To Kayla Yim for being the best admin volunteer who helps me with sending mass emails to the group, leading when I couldn’t be there, and being so friendly to everyone who comes in. This group wouldn’t be the same without you ✊
• To every single volunteer that continues to show up every week to help us out and make this group what it is. We couldn’t do it without you all ❤️ Alan, Bob, Kathy, Marianne, Scott, Phil, Sally, Simon, and everyone else who has come in to assist throughout the year!
• To Fox 29 Philly and Avani for setting this up & featuring our group!

Check out the full segment linked in my bio!
@upendingparkinsons @climbexploretravel @kaylayim1224

#upendingparkinsons #rockclimbing #parkinsonsdisease

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MOVE WITH SPEED

Coordination movements require explosive power in addition to proper body positioning.

When power, speed, and positioning work together, coordination moves—especially paddles—start to look smooth, like the climber is floating.

🔥 Climbing performance is an integrated system between physical, technical, and psychological attributes.

If you don’t understand your trajectory, you won’t find the body positions needed to pull through.

If you don’t explode out of the start and move with speed, you won’t reach those positions in time.

If you don’t commit with confidence, you’ll fall short.
Each piece needs to work together.

In Hugo’s case, he wasn’t consistently reaching the position he needed to paddle. He needed more speed and more commitment out of the start.

🔥 Beta tip: If your starting position doesn’t allow you to come away from the wall and create much space, you’ll need to emphasize exploding and moving with more speed.

Creating space gives us more time to control our trajectory and move back toward the wall rather than falling away from it.

When we can’t create as much space, we have less time before gravity pulls us out. Moving faster allows us to reach the positions we need before that happens.

Understanding how to manipulate trajectory, create space, and move explosively are all pieces of coordination movement we’ll be developing at Pre-Season Bouldering Camp.

This two-day intensive is built for youth competitors U13+ preparing for the 2026/27 season.

Athletes will participate in:
🔥 Mock Competition Rounds
🔥 Movement Workshops
🔥 Competition Mindset & Tactical Development Sessions

Athletes leave with:
🔥 A deeper understanding of competition movement 🔥 Experience under realistic competition pressure
🔥 Personalized feedback on performance and training 🔥 Confidence before the first USAC event

🗓️ August 29–30
📍 Tufas Boulder Lounge
⏰ 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Train alongside motivated competitors and enter the season prepared, confident, and ready to perform.
Spots are limited to maintain a high-quality training environment.

REGISTRATION IS LIVE — LINK

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Youth Nationals 2026

As the process continues, there are always many things to be proud of as we push forward and many things to reflect on for continued learning and growth.

I’m extremely proud of how Emma, Maya, Hugo, and Ella showed up at Nationals this year and the season as a whole.

Through multiple ups and downs, you have consistently displayed the values we share as a team of passion, resilience, enthusiasm, drive, and discipline while also remaining aligned with your own personal values that make each of you the remarkable athletes and individuals you are today.

The process continues, and I look forward to supporting and seeing what you all do next.

Huge congratulations to Maya for taking 🥉 and earning a spot on the National Team!

Thank you to all parents, coaches, route-setters, and USAC staff for your contributions that make these events possible and memorable for the athletes.

Now for a short break until next season.

Pre-Season Camp 🔜

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Hey GV team pls notice me 🙇🏻‍♂️
Yes I am shamelessly performing this marketing stunt since basic job apps are corny. Also the whimsy here is more refreshing than AI lying about tacos on Cinco de Mayo #fy #gravityvault #bouldering #climbeverymountain #unhinged

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Brownie celebration with rock climbing and Pietro’s. The girls always welcome sisters to jump in as being a girl scout is being a sister to every girl.

#girlscoutsofeasternpa #girlscoutsofgladwyne #gravityvault #pietrospizza

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Everyday shit 🤷‍♀️

#Rockclimbing #fitness #blessed #blessed #freedom

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JUMP, KICK, STICK 101

These kick-back / kick-stick coordination moves are a staple in modern route setting—but most climbers approach them completely wrong.

For Ella, the biggest issues were positioning and creating tension.

She wasn’t finding the position that created time through the hands or tension through the kick to control the barn door.

With all coordination moves, we need to think through 3️⃣ fundamentals👇🏼

🔹What is the ideal ending position?

🔥Don’t jump to the hold. Jump into the position of the hold.

🔹Where can we create time?

Usually by finding:
• Nose-over-toes body positioning
• Hand positions that slow the swing
• Tension through the lower body

🔹How can we create space at the start?

We want to start slightly away from the wall and drive INTO it so our trajectory carries us toward the controlled position—not away from it.

With jump-kick-stick moves, the biggest issue is almost always the barn-door effect.

Here are 2️⃣ ways to reduce it👇🏼

🔥Match the finishing hold and pull inward.

The closer we pull our center of mass to the wall, the less rotational force we create.

🔥Catch with the opposite foot engaged.

Left hand + right foot (or vice versa) creates opposition and helps eliminate the swing.

Add an active flag, and the movement becomes dramatically easier to control.

Most climbers don’t struggle with coordination because they lack power.

They struggle because they don’t understand positioning, timing, and tension.

That’s exactly what we work on inside my remote coaching program👇🏼

🔥Personalized Training Programs
🔥Structured Skill Practice
🔥Direct Mentorship
🔥Periodized Strength Training
🔥Sustainable Long-Term Progress

I have 6 coaching spots remaining for the summer.

Comment “COACH” and I’ll send over the application link.

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Learning how to lache without a large swing.

Taking away the space to create a large swing forces the climber to kip and bound rather than land and jump.

By removing the space to swing, I take away the opportunity to load my legs and jump. All I can do is quickly bound out of my ankles.

The kipping mechanics felt mostly the same to me. The obvious difference is the size of the swing. I still maintained the forward thrust of my hips and chest as I kicked and launched for the volume.

The adjustment made was to think of myself as a small spring.

Tight recoil with a tight explosion. This mental cue helped dramatically with increasing speed on the move.

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Setting has become one of the most valuable tools in my coaching, and this season I’ve spent a lot of time refining it to better develop athletes through movement.

I treat every climb as a chance to study movement deeply and explore how subtle changes create completely different outcomes.

The more I set, the more I understand the subtle details that unlock complex movement without simply requiring athletes to get stronger.

Diverse route-setting creates an environment that teaches and sparks curiosity: teaching movement fundamentals, micro-beta, decision-making, and execution.

A huge part of our culture is giving athletes opportunities to explore movement in as many ways as possible.

The wall becomes a classroom.

The goal isn’t just to send boulders — it’s to build climbers who can learn, adapt, and express themselves on the wall.

Constantly learning. Constantly refining. Constantly creating.

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Boulder Divisionals ‘26

This weekend was a test of who we are.

Everything we do is built on our values — this weekend showed why that matters.

🔥Success is a byproduct of how you show up.

This weekend was proof — our team stayed aligned with our values, and it showed in every moment.

6 athletes at divisionals. Our entire team.
5 athletes qualified to finals.
4 athletes qualified for nationals.
3 athletes on the podium.
2 long days of competing.
1 team.

All season, this team has shown up with passion, discipline, confidence, and resilience — and we’ve kept pushing forward as athletes and people.

I couldn’t be prouder of this team.

Self-worth isn’t determined by the hand you’re dealt.

You’re defined by how you play the cards.

Nationals 🔜

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Another great semester with the greatest club in the WORLD 🌎! A special thank you to all of our graduating seniors. We hope you all still keep climbing on wherever life takes you!

As always, CLIMB ON!
#rockclimbing #boulderlife

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[SEND] Problem of the week at GV Radnor. Magnolia shirt makes me strong, rolled up pants make me not sweat (crazy look???), climb makes me feel cool as hell!!! (V4?)

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