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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
Posted in anxiety, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, Confidence, goal setting, imagery, mental skills, Motivation, pre-performance routines, Rock Climbing, Self talk, Stress, workshops
Tagged Coaching, coaching skills, Coaching the Coaches, Imagery, mental skills, Performance routines
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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
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
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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1/3 of All Climbing Courses in May
In a move to beat the austerity measures, here and Snowdonia Mountain Guides we are offering 33% off all courses, so for any climbing course the rate for 1 to 1 guiding, instruction or coaching is just £100 a day. … Continue reading
BMC/UIAA adice of Campus Board for Youngsters
When I was researching my book ‘How to Climb Harder‘ I decided to put a advisory section in for training for Young People. In researching that I looked at a BMJ article on climbing and young people in which it … Continue reading
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
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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What Areas are Blind, Hidden or Unknown to You?
When I was in south america working for the MTS. I had to teach some american teaching and outdoor education strategies one of them below was called the Johari Square. This isn’t some fancy foriegn name, but the first bits … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Coaching, Confidence, fear, mental skills, Rock Climbing
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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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Tagged Coaching, Lead climb coaching, Leader Falls
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