Category Archives: Coaching skills

Posts that include the a variety of skills that are the foundation of good coaching. Usually applied to rock climbign and the skills required to teahc that.

Mental Skill Workshop for Climbing Instructors – 6th Nov – Beacon

This workshop covers a selection of mental skills and how to introduce them to climbers. Mental Skills are psychology techniques that can enhance performance, and reduce the negative effects of anxiety than plays a large role in the sport of … Continue reading

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Coaching Climbing Movement Workshop – 23rd Oct – Beacon

This practical workshop looks at the development of climbing movement from the fundamental skills through to more advanced movement, with an emphasis of developing effective practice and feedback during coaching. Technique coaching is a branch of skill acquisition, whereby we … Continue reading

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Long Term Development of Young Climbers – 22nd Oct – Beacon

This workshop looks at the Long Term Development of Young Climbers, a thorny issue, and one that has slowly been addressed by the BMC Fundamentals Course. This course focus’s on what to coach and when, as well as looking much … Continue reading

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Effective Coaching for Climbing Instructors – 15th Oct – Beacon

This course examines the theory and practice of teaching and learning, and how they interact with anxiety. All of the skills covered come under the umbrella of what can be considered ‘Effective Coaching’. The C word has become more and … Continue reading

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10 Mental Skills of a Successful Cimber

Climbing in general isn’t a sport about winning over a competitor, it is more about setting your own goals and achieving them. Whatever the grade, the style of climbing or indeed the level of commitment, climbing is a great sport … Continue reading

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How To……. Pass Your SPA

The SPA is a National Governing Body(NGB) Award, that trains and assess people ability to safely supervise a rock climbing session at a single pitch venue. As such the way the award operates is that you first go climbing and … Continue reading

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Body Position: The final part of efficiency

So far in this mini series we have looked at two aspects of the 3 B’s of good climbing technique – The Boot and Balance, here we look at the final piece Body Position. If the Boot was the foundation … Continue reading

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Balance: The key to efficiency

This is the second in a three part mini series on the fundementals of technique, that covers the three B’s of climbing – Boot, Balance and Body Position. In the first of the series we looked at aspects of the … Continue reading

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Boot: The Foundation of Good Technique

Done well climbing is something of a beautiful dance, every climber has a pace, rhythm and style of there own. Hidden in the gait, is a wealth of experience and technique that can seem quite unfathomable to a beginner. Unfortunately … Continue reading

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Teaching Leading: Soft Skills, Risk Management and Decision Making

I recently put a post up on the hard skills of using a fixed line to ascend next to the student. Having written the piece on my presonal thoughts and expriences, I have had quite a few comments on the … Continue reading

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