In reply to Goofyfoot: In reply to the "just go climbing, you'll get stronger" comments, unfortunatly I'm only able to climb once - perhaps twice a week if I'm lucky, so I suppliment this with various forms of training.
Regarding the weight issue, I'm managing my weight pretty comfortably through a mix of good diet and regular cardio work (betweeen 6-9 mile runs).
The cretaine itslef is good value - £7 for 500 grams from my protien.com - still got loads left.
I completey agree, that while muscle strength imrpoves quickly, this is not in relation to tendon streangth - again, this is why I'm being careful about pushing to hard at the wall, so far no problems.
As for the "climbing through the use of drugs" comment, I find this quite rediculous, creatine is a natural substance already found within the body - by taking it you are mearly suppliment what you already have, and as sombody has already pointed out, it is perfectly legal, and widely used throughout many different sports and events - was used commonly, and openly by athletes within many olympic events!