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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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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
Tagged Coaching, coaching skills, mental skills
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In the Blink of an Eye
I have just been reading the bellselling book BLINK, its about snap decision making, and whilst not about climbing it has some interesting concepts about intuition and sub-conscious thought. For me as a climbing instructor I thought it as an … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Book Review, Climbing, Confidence, mental skills, Skill Acquisition, Uncategorized
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How to Climb Harder: Review by Mal Creasey of the MLT
I returned from the field to find this review from Mal Creasey one of the officers at the Mountain leader Training Boards, based in Capel Curig. Mal is a great guy who also volunteers on the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team … Continue reading
How to Climb Harder: About to hit the shops
Hi, I have just heard that the book is at the publishers, so hopefully it will be in the shops by this weekend. If its not then why not mail order one from Pesdapress.com. You can see a sample here. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, Confidence, Rock Climbing, Uncategorized
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I Boulder V5 why do I struggle on HVS?
I plugged my book to a potential buyer today, and he went on to send me an email asking a few questions. I thought it would be of interest to answer some of his questions on my coaching blog, as … Continue reading
New Coaching and Instructing Website
Well I have been busy trying to finish off a new website for my coaching and instructing website, Snowdonia Mountain Guides. Moving it to a joomla based website. Hopefully it is more user friendly than this blog and the previous … Continue reading
Posted in Big Wall Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, Confidence, dream of white horses, dreams, Effective practice, Escaping the System, goal setting, Goals, How to Climb Harder, Instruction, learning, mental skills, online, Rock Climbing, Rope Rescue, Skill Acquisition, Technique, Uncategorized
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MSc in Applied Sport Science
I recently recieved the news that I have passed my MSc in Applied Sports Sciences. With so many coaches out there, what does this mean for any clients that I work with? Well, during my masters I studied Sport Psychology, … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, anxiety, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, Confidence, Effective practice, goal setting, Goals, How to Climb Harder, imagery, learning, mental skills, MSc Applied Sport Science, Rock Climbing, Self talk, Self-belief, self-efficacy, Skill Acquisition, sports, Technique, Uncategorized, visualisation
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Staying Motivated
If we want to improve at anything we need to work at it, usually over an extended period of time. What is key to maintaining our work rate and pursuit of our aims, goals or ambition, are maintaining high levels … Continue reading
Leader Fall Training
I went to the wall with a friend yesterday who was nervous about falling off, so we did some fall training to help her get over the fear. We started with simply clipping the lower off and rather than waiting … Continue reading
