Category Archives: workshops

post about coaching workshops for rock climbing coaches and climbers that I run or attend.

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

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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

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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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Effective Coaching for Climbing Instructors – 15th Oct – Beacon

This course examines the theory and practice of teaching and learning, and how they interact with anxiety. All of the skills covered come under the umbrella of what can be considered ‘Effective Coaching’. The C word has become more and … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Big Wall Climbing Courses 14th & 15th August

A new big wall course is running on the weekend of the 14th & 15th August. This course is ideal if you are planning a trip to go big wall climbing in Yosemite, and will help you to prepare for … Continue reading

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Snowdonia Mountain Guides: Courses

After running a successful ‘How to Big Wall Course’ earlier in the month I am keen to offer this course again sometime over the summer. At present I am going to set a date in early July (Sat/Sun 3rd and … Continue reading

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Big Wall Climbing

I ran a great ‘how to Bog Wall’ course at the weekend for four great clients, we covered lots of skills required for Big Walling, as well as having a great time. Here are a few photos from the course. … Continue reading

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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

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