Category Archives: MLTUK

post on or about the Mountain Leader Training UK, which overseas the national governing body award courses for mountaineering and rock climbing

How To……. Pass Your SPA

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Mark Reeves

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 →

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MLT: National Governing Body Qualification Courses

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Mark Reeves

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 →

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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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Coaching Workshop for Instructors

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Mark Reeves

Well tonight I delivered a evening coaching workshop for instructor from the Beacon Climbing Centre mainly aimed at showing these instructor that they already use ‘coaching behaviours’, and that with a little thought they can hopefully start focusing on its … Continue reading →

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