Nov. 11, 2024

#124 Ross Fulkerson — Efficient Movement Over Everything, Performing Well In Different Disciplines, Practical Breathing Tips, and Testing New Climbing Shoes

#124 Ross Fulkerson — Efficient Movement Over Everything, Performing Well In Different Disciplines, Practical Breathing Tips, and Testing New Climbing Shoes

This episode is brought to you by Mad Rock! Mad Rock is run by REAL climbers, and that’s why they supported Ross Fulkerson and Testpiece to go on an awesome trip to Mallorca where they recorded this podcast.

Ross is back on the pod after a multi year hiatus. Ross was actually the very first guest back on episode #3 and #4! 

Since then Ross has won tons of comps, competed in tons of world cups, climbed hard boulders, hard sport, even hard trad! In the last few months Ross has been on tear doing all of those disciplines at a high level. 

Josh went out to Mallorca to join Ross and they sat down for a chat about the thread that connects all of these disciplines together and how Ross manages to perform at such a high level in each of them.

Ross also shares what it’s like to test new and updated shoes by Mad Rock. How does he make sure they can handle all the things he throws at them? How does he figure out what to suggest to make them even better? How does Mad Rock actually take that feedback and turn it into a better product? This is a cool behind the scenes look at how pro’s actually interact with their shoe companies to make the shoes the best they can be.


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Chapters

00:00 - Intro

08:15 - The Thread That Connects Disciplines

17:11 - Efficient Movement

20:34 - Controlling Heart Rate In Climbing

33:16 - Confidence Isn’t An Accident

47:57 - Thank You To Mad Rock

51:09 - Beta and Intuition

55:07 - Practical Breathing Tips

01:00:26 - Add This To Your Toolkit

01:03:09 - Risky But Easier

01:18:39 - Executing Complex Movements

01:26:58 - Testing Of New Shoes

01:51:58 - How do you go from Good to Great?