Some other climbing-themed mugs I’ve seen have an indoor-climbing-wall hold glued onto a ceramic base instead. Though, it’s still fairly easy enough to hold the mug using a full five finger grip for left-handers. It'll help you practice your pinch grip, and certainly allow you to flex on your co-workers to the fact that you're a rock climber.

The good thing about the Pinch Hold is that there’s no adhesive and the handhold is part of the mug itself. It’s actually quite easy to hold, at least when using a standard five finger grip, and I haven’t had any problems with the mug slipping. At the very least it will get you used to the different ways in which you can approach and grip a hold and will probably result in some increased grip strength over time as well.Even ifyou mishandle the mug, you'll spill coffee all over yourself and surely learn from your mistakes for when it actually counts while on the side of an actual rock. You've probably seen the rock climbers mug that we featured a while back that uses an indoor rock climbing rubber hold for the handle. The varied shape of the hold also facilitates a variety of different grips—some being harder than others.

As you can see from the video, the mug is really good quality; it’s fully ceramic with the handhold moulded directly into the design of the mug. So, overall I really like the Pinch Hold mug and would definitely recommend it as a gift for both new and experienced rock climbers alike. In some cases, these can become loose if the adhesive is exposed to too much heat (for example, from a hot drink). The rock climbing pinch hold coffee mug is made from ceramic with a matte glaze and makes a perfect gift idea for rock climbers! Instead of having a handle like a traditional mug, it’s sculpted to look like a rockface and requires the drinker to pinch the hold, in a similar way to holding a rock handhold on a crag or indoor climbing wall.The pinch hold coffee mug features a small sliver of rock in lieu of an actual handle on the mug, which makes it quite difficult to pick up without actually wrapping your hand around the entire mug.

If I’ve missed anything, feel free to reach out in the comments below and I’ll do my best to answer them. This way, it'll help you practice your rock climbers grip every time you go for a sip of coffee or tea. However, I definitely feel that my fingers have to work to hold it, especially when using a harder grip.The unique impossible to hold coffee mugfeatures no actual handle other than the texture of a rock cliff, and is handmade in the UK, measuring in at 3.

But I have been using it to drink hot coffee and tea and, while the handhold heats up a little bit, you can still drink from it as long as you’re careful.

Whether the Pinch Hold Mug is just a bit of fun or whether you can actually increase your grip strength by using it is hard to say. So, for newbie climbers especially, I would say that using this mug is bound to have some benefits that will translate over to climbing. I’ve been using the Pinch Hold as my main drinking mug over the last week or so and wanted to make a quick video (above) to share my thoughts. However, it could also be used creatively to warm up before practising on a fingerboard of something.