One of the biggest reasons why people don't get to where they want to be with their climbing in the first place is because there is a lot of work that goes into the inital learning phase. It is like information overload we have all been there. There is just way too much information to read and go through. Too much to learn and no idea where to start. 2. Traditional climbing books and advice set you up for failure. It is so easy to burn out because you are being told that all you need to do is climb more, wear tighter shoes, and buy that new gadget to get crazy finger strength. Wrong answer, don t listen to that crap it simply sets you up to fail. 3. Traditional climbing information and advice forget what it is like to be a new climber. Most of the resources out there and I have read almost every book on climbing out there forget what it was like to be a beginning rock climber. They seem to have forgot how foreign this wonderful sport once was to us ...