As part of a MSc research project into imagery and climbing, local Mountaineering Instructor and Climbing Coach Mark Reeves is offering places on a free Coaching Seminar for anyone who is willing to volunteer as a participant in the research.
The experiment requires about two hours of your time and you will be asked to perform four boulder problems four times, at the Beacon Climbing Centre. As well as climbing the problems you will be required to complete a few questionaires and to wear a heart rate monitor. Prior to completing the final two attempts of each boulder problems we will get you to listen to a relaxation tape or cycle to a set level prior to imagining and then climbing each problem.
All data will be kept confidential, and you are free to withdraw from the study at any time.
Whilst we can’t pay you for your time on the study, you will get free entry to the Beacon Climbing Centre for the purpose of this study, and the opportunity to attend a Coach Seminar with the investigator who is a qualified mountaineering instructor and climbing coach.
Whilst every effort will be made to ensure participants safety there is a level of risk that bouldering involves and every participant should be aware of the BMC participation statement:
“The BMC recognises that climbing, hill walkign and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury and death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their oiwn actions and involvement”
If you would like to find out more about the research or the coaching seminars then please feel free to contact Mark via here.