Well I have had a busy day for me. This morning I was teaching at the indoor wall at the Conway Centre with my good friend Llion. It seems ages since we last worked together and its always good fun, the group were amazing in many ways, first there enthusiasm and behaviour made it an easy session. Although that could be because there was another instructor as well.
There was also one girl in the group who had a condition that had far to many syllables to remember but essentially she was in a wheelchair, so I nipped into the wall early to rig the hoist I often use in these situations and we then got the class to warm up and I had a quick chat with the teachers and the girl about what she thought she could do.
Given that the teachers said she could stand if assisted, I decided to for go the hoist and just get her climbing. She took her time and had to really work hard to place her feet on the holds, but as well as a bit of easy traversing which was quite hard as she had less lateral movement than upward movement, she also manage to make it up two roped routes. After which she was quite justifiable knackered. I tried to get her to search for the Fran Brown video for a bit of inspiration. Who knows maybe she’ll get into climbing as she lives around Kendal.
After that I came home and went to collect the Climber’s Against Cancer T-shirts I had ordered. So I can now get some cash of those who ordered them and hand out the love. Seeing as the Post Office depot is next to the wall, I did a quick session, although I went out to quick and got thoroughly pumped on a long traverse, silly me.
I then came home and did some research on browser cache, local storage and a few other bits and bobs with an eye for making a offline web interface for the logbook section of iCoach Climbing. So I will probably be busy next week.
Finally I uploaded to iBooks the next book I am publishing Effective Coaching: A Climbers Guide to the Coaching Process. There are plans for it to be a Kindle book soon, I just need to decide how I am going to do that as the ePub format means I’ll loose all the great formatting and I am not sure how protected PDF’s are? It cost £7.99 and is 35000 words on learning, teaching and other skills for existing and developing climbing coaches. I will do a full post on the book tomorrow.
