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Welsh Winter Skills Courses

Well, it has snow the last couple of days leaving the tops covered in some snow, and with the freezing levels looking good well into next week. There might well be the oppotunity for some Welsh Winter Skills Courses. So … Continue reading

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Logbook Function add to iCoach

Well, I have been busy designing and building a logbook function to my iCoach project over on my Coaching/Instruction website. At the moment if you register you can complete a performance profile which will give you 5 climbing attributes to … Continue reading

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Free Performance Profiling

Sorry I haven’t been on here much, the main reason is that I have been learning php to programming a bespoke web service for climbers. If you have brought my book ‘How to Climb Harder’ it features a performance profiling … Continue reading

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Last Minute Winter Skills Courses

Well with the first signs of winter over Snowdonia, I thought I’d make a post about the Winter Skills courses that I run. In them I use many of the generic coaching skills of teaching skill aquisition, but apply them … Continue reading

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Free 2012 Rock Climbing Calender

I have put together a rock climbing calender to help promote my course dates over at Snowdonia Mountain Guides. It would be great to hear any feedback, it is an 11Mb download, available here.   Tweet

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CPD Instructor Courses 22nd and 23rd Oct

Just thought I’d remind people that I am running some CPD courses for instructors or trainees this weekend. Saturday 22nd is a Long Term Athlete Development Workshop, and 23rd is a Coaching Climbing Movement. These courses would be ideal for … Continue reading

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Another New Site: Snowdonia Mountain Guides

I finally got round to making a new website for my domain, Snowdonia Mountain Guides. The site is still a work in rpogress, although all the major features are there. It is a retro site, in that it is based … Continue reading

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New Website: How To Climb Harder

I have put together a small website about my book ‘How To Climb Harder’, it will hopefully help market my book. If you find any mistakes then please contact me here so I can rectify them. If you have a … Continue reading

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Mental Toughness

I have been doing some research for an piece on mental toughness. I remembered a couple of examples, one good one bad, of how mental toughness helps or hinders athletes in other areas. One comes from this Gladwell peice on … Continue reading

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Long Term Development of Young Climbers – 22nd Oct – Beacon

This workshop looks at the Long Term Development of Young Climbers, a thorny issue, and one that has slowly been addressed by the BMC Fundamentals Course. This course focus’s on what to coach and when, as well as looking much … Continue reading

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