Category Archives: mental skills

Posts that include some of the major mental skills for sporting performance that sport psychologist suggest should be focus on to improve performance. In the most part these mental skills are looked at from the perspective of a rock climber

Snowdonia Mountain Guide Courses

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Mark Reeves

Learning to Lead Climb Week 10th -14th May 2010 This course is design to teach you the essential skills and techniques required to lead on traditional leader placed protection in the UK, and beyond. During the week we will cover … Continue reading →

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Staying Motivated

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Mark Reeves

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 →

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Choosing a Project

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Mark Reeves

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 →

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Leader Fall Training

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Mark Reeves

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 →

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MLTUK Use Climbing Coach Article

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Mark Reeves

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 →

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Climbing Fitness

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Mark Reeves

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 →

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Declumsification: Johnny Dawes

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Mark Reeves

I was in the Gallt Y Glyn last night and amongst the other people who were in there was Johnny Dawes. We managed to get him talking about what he does on his coaching workshops. Now this is only one … Continue reading →

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Coaching: The New Buzz Word, but what does it mean?

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Mark Reeves

Within our society we from time to time get buzz words, in government a few years back everything was about ‘community’, in sport it is all ‘Coaching’. The big problem is that one simple word can conjure up a very … Continue reading →

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Training For Climbing: Fear of Falling and Anxiety

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Mark Reeves

Wes Hunter Controlling the Anxiety on Poetry Pink E5 6a, Rainbow Slab. In 1993 Jana Navotna was set to win wimbledon, she was 4-1 up in the final set, and then it all fell apart. The first sign of her … Continue reading →

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Imagery Scripts: Bouldering Content

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Mark Reeves

Well I introduced the concept of scripts for imagery a while back, and thought I’d elaborate the concept to allow you to develop a script for a boulder problem that you can climb in overlapping sections but not yet link. … Continue reading →

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