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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
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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Tagged Coaching, coaching skills, Training
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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
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
Posted in Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, Instruction, learning, Skill Acquisition, Uncategorized
Tagged Coaching, Lead climb coaching, Leader Falls
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MLT: National Governing Body Qualification Courses
If you follow this blog and thought that you’d like to become qualified as a climbing, hillwalking or mountaineering instructor, then I should point you in the direction of my other blog LITV, where I have just published some dates … Continue reading
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
How To Climb Harder: Read the Book and Now do the Course
Well, as you will no doubt know by my recent blog posts over on LITV, my book has made it into the general population. Where I hope it is being well recieved. So far there are a couple of reviews … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, learning, Ray Wood, Skill Acquisition, Technique, Uncategorized
Tagged H, How to Climb Harder review
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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
