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Free Rope Rescue PDF Manual
I have put together a free PDF rope rescue manual for anyone who is interested it comes after I did a rope rescue for climbers course, and Ady who was on the course wanted a manual for revision. Most of … Continue reading
Posted in climbing, Coaching skills, learning, rescue, rock climbing, Rope Rescue, Skill Acquisition
Tagged Climbing, rope rescue
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Slate
I spent the last couple of days up around the Never Never Land area, ticking a few easy and not so easy routes. Yesterday I was easy stuff, and I did a route that has to be the biggest waste … Continue reading
Rope Rescue for Climbers
I spent another day with Ady, working on developing his jedi rope skills, and we focused on consolidating the skills we covered the day before, which is an approached that I have often used in these courses as the skills … Continue reading
Posted in Instruction, rescue, Rigging, Rope Rescue, Skill Acquisition, Uncategorized
Tagged Climbing, Coaching, rope rescue
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Admin and Slate Hit
Well, even I have to stop from time to time to go to the bank, and even get a hair cut. I have to say I think it has almost been a year since I got my hair cut, one … Continue reading
Lead Climbing Coaching and Crouchan
I spent a lovely day out yesterday at Milestone, coaching Shaun and Sarah in some lead climb coaching. I had previously taught them to lead climb, but it was the first time this season that they were going out, and … Continue reading
Posted in climbing, Coaching, Courses, lead climb coaching
Tagged Climbing, Coaching, Lead Climbing Coaching
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Appointment With Fear
Well, today was the day, I had been tracking it my diary since the middle of last month. It sat there like a veritable red-letter day. It read only ‘The Glorious First – Red Walls?!’, it was the first time … Continue reading
The Red Zone – T minus 12 hours
For six months of the year we can only marvel at its splendor, crisp red rock punctuated by soft sandy lines of weakness. For the devotee this is where Gogarth climbing its at. Steep and sustain climbing with just enough … Continue reading
Alzheimer’s Onsights
With age comes experience, and I would like to think I have accrued a fair amount of that over the years, and there are routes that I climb regularly and each hold is like shaking hands with an old friend. … Continue reading
Olympics 2020: What Will It Take to Put a British Climber on the Podium?
With the news that climbing has been short listed for the Olympics in 2020, I thought I’d ponder a situation that on the one hand is hypothetical, but on the other if climbing reaches its Olympic Dream; then is the … Continue reading
South Stack Day: No’s 94 and 95
Its been a great week, however the work stopped last night, and I enjoyed a few pints in the Heights Hotel, I will have to do a blog on the Heights, as it is just incredible. Anyway I awoke to … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, climbing, gogarth, Uncategorized
Tagged Climbing, Gogarth, Life
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