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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
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
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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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
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
Balance: The key to efficiency
This is the second in a three part mini series on the fundementals of technique, that covers the three B’s of climbing – Boot, Balance and Body Position. In the first of the series we looked at aspects of the … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, learning, Skill Acquisition, Technique, Uncategorized
Tagged Coaching, coaching skills, Training
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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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