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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 Climbing Movement Workshop – 23rd Oct – Beacon
This practical workshop looks at the development of climbing movement from the fundamental skills through to more advanced movement, with an emphasis of developing effective practice and feedback during coaching. Technique coaching is a branch of skill acquisition, whereby we … Continue reading
Rope Rescue for Rock Climbers
After running a rope rescue for climbers a couple of weeks ago. Ady who was on the course wanted a manual to help him remember the lessons we’d gone through, and kindly sent me all the images of the stages … Continue reading
Posted in Article, Rock Climbing, Rope Rescue, Rope skills
Tagged Coaching, coaching skills, Rope rescue for climbers, Ropework
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1/3 of All Climbing Courses in May
In a move to beat the austerity measures, here and Snowdonia Mountain Guides we are offering 33% off all courses, so for any climbing course the rate for 1 to 1 guiding, instruction or coaching is just £100 a day. … Continue reading
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
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
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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Online Coaching and Workshops
Well it has been a while since I have had time to update this coaching blog, with anything resembling coaching. I am sorry for that, but if you can bare with me for another month, as I am currently living … Continue reading
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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