Transform Your Footwork in 2025
It started with a drawing on a napkin.
I was looking at a bin full of old chalky finger training equipment and tools at the gym, and I thought, "why don't we have tools like this for footwork training?" Because climbers need something for their footwork - desperately! The number 1 feedback I give to athletes at almost every level, is the need for better, stronger, more intentional footwork. So I grabbed a napkin and sketched out an idea.
Foot Flow was the first name. Sort of dumb, but that's where I started. The idea was to create an 11-sided L-shaped bloc that provided climbers with a huge variety of footwork challenges. I made some more drawings, and then sent them off to Metric Climbing
We went through A LOT of prototypes. Months and months of modifications. And I tested each one, working out changes until we had a legitimate tool for improving footwork. I then gave the Tec Bloc to various high performance climbers, to test and play with. The result was way more than I expected.
Athletes took the Tec Bloc to the next level; inventing moves and tricks that elevated and gave life to this napkin idea. After weeks of using the Tec Bloc (some athletes did drills with it every day, consistently), amazing reviews came back:
- "Significant improvement in balance."
- "Measurable strength gains in my feet, specifically my toes and ankles."
- "Big improvement in coordination movements & foot-matching skills."
- "Insane improvements to my footwork!"
- "Surprised by how much this thing works."
And my favourite: "I didn't realize I was training so hard, because it felt more like playing games for an hour."
The Tec Bloc really works. And I'm so excited to share it with the global climbing community! Here's a video for how to get started with your Tec Bloc, and below a link to get your own!
May 2025 be an amazing year of personal growth, psyche, hard climbing, and transformational footwork!
