Private coaching weekend

James goes to make the 'Off the Beaten Track' move

Well I sent the weekend teaching two really noce guys how to climb harder, on a personal coaching weekend. Was great to see them improve, although they were aready pretty good. One james had some of the best footwoak I have seen in a long time, and carl was also better than he thought.

I spent saturday baking in the slate quarries, as it allowed me to get them doing some technique work whilst on easy sports climbing, and at the same time got them thinging about break a route down. So we did a few routes on the sidings before I got James to lead Off the Beaten Track, which is about E2 on bolts.

After another route above looning the tube Carl lead Looning the Tube, both did them in great style, and showed they can keep there head nice and relaxed. As well as break the route down and get rests where they needed to.

We then finish by James leading Peter Pan, he did really well, and little does he know that the top move has taken some pretty big scalps, as the hidden holdĀ is, well, hidden. After that Carl lead Seamstress and James Peter Pan, so they manged to get a lot done on slate.

Today the weather was very odd this morning, rain coming from what seemed like nowhere. So I decide to go to gogarth, only to look out across angelsey from the Beran Filling station and see clag, but clear skies towards tremadog, so we headed there instead where, they lead Yogi and Merlin Direct.

I hope they had a grteat weekend and enjoyed it as much as I did. They made me remember that the climbs I do all the time are simply amazing. Something that you do occassionally forget when your running laps on them regularly. They simply loved every route I put them on.

Carl on Looning the Tube - Slate quarries

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