Here I am giving a short speech about some of the reasons I chose to join and also some generally awesome things about the Arkansas Climbing Club.

    For a little more information, the Arkansas Climbing Club was founded last spring semester by Nick Stoddart. Even though it is a new club it has already surpassed many in member count and planned activities. Another plus, every officer of the club happens to be really funny. They make the meetings feel more like stand-up comedy than your regular boring club meeting.
    Examples of activities include charity clean up days; where members spend most of the day picking up trash and improving campgrounds, and rock climbing after the work is done; club climbing sessions, where they will open one of the HPER's climbing gyms just for members of the club; and guest speakers, where they will bring in famous rock climbers to come get members psyched on climbing. It is an ever-expanding club that will only get better. Feel free to stop by the University of Arkansas Climbing Club's Facebook page and see when our next meeting is!

Here are a few pictures of members doing what they do best, "shredding the gnar!"*

*according to many climbers this statement is equivalent to "excelling at rock climbing".

   
    Here's a video I took of my interview with Nick Stoddart, president and founder of the University of Arkansas Climbing Club.

    The Arkansas Climbing Club, created and ran entirely by students at the U of A, is a thriving community of people who have on thing in common. They're psyched on rock climbing. Meetings are held about once a month, but members go climbing together nearly every weekday at the on campus climbing walls and spend their weekends visiting any of the great rock climbing destinations in Northwest Arkansas.
    Joining the Arkansas Climbing Club is a great way to improve your rock climbing skills. Of course you need to practice to get better, and you can do that on your own, but the climbing club offers a network of experienced rock climbers who can help newer climbers.
   Anyone who is a climber or who has an interest in rock climbing should definitely look into joining the Arkansas Climbing Club. For more information check out their Facebook page, just search University of Arkansas Climbing Club.