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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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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
Video: Rope Rescue Skills Lowering past a knot with HMS
I have put together a short video of how to lower a climber past a knot, if using a large HMS carabiner. This might be helpful if you have an injured climber a long way up a cliff, as with … Continue reading
Rope Rescue Skills for Rock Climbers Course: 28th & 29th August
Probably one of the most least understood of the climbing skills, are those that we may only need in extreme circumstances that we spend the whole of our climbing lives trying to avoid. Be it benightment, be caught in a … 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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Snowdonia Mountain Guide Courses
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
Posted in adventure, Big Wall Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, dream of white horses, Effective practice, Instruction, mental skills, Rock Climbing, Rope Rescue, Snowdonia Mountain Guides, Technique, The Nose, Trad Rack, Uncategorized, workshops
Tagged How to Big Wall Course, Rope rescue for climbers, Snowdonia Mountain Guide Website
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Abseiling Off Routes
The above picture when clicked on gives a A4 sizes beta for how to retreat of route through abseiling. These skills are an important part of climbing safely, and will also help you get down to the bottom of sea … Continue reading
Posted in Abseiling, Article, Belays, Climbing, Coaching skills, Instruction, Rope Rescue, Rope skills
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Rope Rescue: Escaping the system
There is often a thread or two on UKClimbing on how you can go about escaping the system. In an effort to answer this question I literally threw this video together today, after filming it yesterday. Now its not polished, … Continue reading
Welcome to the Climbing Coach Blog
This blog is there to help both climber and coaches. There will be top tips and handy hints for all style of climbing, from the qualified mountaineering instructor and coach Mark Reeves. Based in North Wales Mark has worked at … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, goal setting, How to Climb Harder, imagery, Instruction, life in the vertical, Long term athlete development, mental skills, Motivation, MSc Applied Sport Science, online, periodisation, Physiology of climbing, relaxation, Rock Climbing, Rope Rescue, Rope skills, Self talk, Self-belief, Snowdonia Mountain Guides, Strength, Strength Endurnace
Tagged Climbing Coach Website, Coaching, Coaching the Coaches, How to Climb Harder review, mental skills, Ropework, Snowdonia Mountain Guide Website, Training
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