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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 Workshops @ LLAMFF
After chatting to the organisers at LLAMFF, it looks like I am going to be delivering some coaching workshops through the Beacon Climbing Centre. As well as giving a slideshow of Rock Climbing in the Americas. If you are interested … Continue reading
Posted in Beacon, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, fear, goal setting, imagery, mental skills, Rock Climbing, Uncategorized, workshops
Tagged Coaching, coaching skills, Leader Falls, mental skills, Training
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Is there such a thing as Natural Talent?
Just before I went away i was approach by a TV company to see if I thought there was such a thing as natural talent, they were wanting to make a show of ‘natural vs nuture’; or basically whether there … Continue reading
Posted in champion, Coaching skills, Effective practice, goal setting, Goals, learning, Rock Climbing, Uncategorized
Tagged Nature or Nuture
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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
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
Tagged Snowdonia Mountain Guide Website
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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
Choosing a Project
Some people are goal orientated, I know that I am more focused when I have a either an overt or covert goal to aim for. For me I have two goals this year, one get fit enough to clibm the … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, Bouldering, Climbing, dreams, goal setting, Goals, mental skills, Uncategorized
Tagged Choosing a route
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MLTUK Use Climbing Coach Article
I got an email yesterday off the MLTUK (Mountain Leader Training UK) top man Steve Long asking if they could use an article i wrote a while back for this blog on Coaching the New Buzz Word, but what does … Continue reading
Posted in Article, Bouldering, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, Effective practice, goal setting, Instruction, learning, Long term athlete development, mental skills, MLTUK, Mountain leader, Physiology of climbing, Rock Climbing, Skill Acquisition, Uncategorized
Tagged Climbing Coach Website
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Climbing Fitness
Over the past nine months or so that this blog has been running I have covered a variety of topics that cover just what climbing fitness is. Rather than be specific I have had a rather holistic approach on the … Continue reading
Posted in cardio, Climbing, climbing endurance, Coaching, Confidence, dreams, Focus, goal setting, Goals, How to Climb Harder, imagery, learning, mental skills, overload, Physiology of climbing, Rock Climbing, Self talk, Self-belief, self-efficacy, Strength, Strength Endurnace, Technique, Uncategorized, visualisation
Tagged Climbing Coach Website, Leader Falls, mental skills, Motivation, Training
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