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BMC/UIAA adice of Campus Board for Youngsters
When I was researching my book ‘How to Climb Harder‘ I decided to put a advisory section in for training for Young People. In researching that I looked at a BMJ article on climbing and young people in which it … 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
Mark McGowan 6a to 8a
Whilst I was away travelling I think there was an article on Mark in Climber magazine, I was alerted to his blog by a colleague at Plas Y Brenin, but finding the time to look at his blog has taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Focusing on success, Lead climb coaching, mental skills, Motivation, power endurance, Training
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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
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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
Weight a Minute
I have recently seen a post on one of the UK’s lead climbing coaches website Dave Macleod, and if your following this blog then you should definitely follow his. As not only is he a great climber but and excellent … Continue reading
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Tagged Coaching, Training, Weight loss in sport
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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
Posted in Beacon, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, fear, goal setting, imagery, mental skills, Rock Climbing, Uncategorized, workshops
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Climbing Recovery
Often when climbing we get pumped, which is our skeletal muscle becoming saturated with Lacatic acid and other ions that bring about fatigue and eventually failure. This is most likely to occur when we are climbing at our absolute limit, … Continue reading
Climbing Fitness
Over the past nine months or so that this blog has been running I have covered a variety of topics that cover just what climbing fitness is. Rather than be specific I have had a rather holistic approach on the … Continue reading
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