The Power Company Climbing Podcast
Sports:Wilderness
You’ve heard of the SAID principle, right? S-A-I-D: Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands. You’ve heard of it. And you thought that it meant simply that to get better at climbing, you have to climb on boulders that look just like the climbs you do outside, right?
If that was you, you were in the majority.
But you were wrong.
Is climbing pulling straight down on edges? Not always.
Is it compressing on slopers? Not always.
Is it jumping from grip to grip? Sometimes.
Is it moving slow and precise. Pretty often, actually.
Is it full-crimping? Half-crimping? Open hand? 3 Finger Drag? Middle 2? Back 3? Mono? Crosley? Pinch? Back-stepping, drop-kneeing, twisted, square, toe-hooking, heel-hooking, edging, smearing, blah blah blah…
Well, It’s all of these things. And thousands more things. It’s too much. So today, we’re going to learn a little more about what specificity actually means.
In our Coaching for Mastery course, we go DEEP into how coaches and climbers can create an effective practice. That’s literally what the entire course is about. The research, the theories, my experience, and how you can practically apply it.
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Home Wall Listener Questions | Part 2
Home Wall Listener Questions | Part 1
BOARD MEETINGS | How to Climb and Train Effectively with Different Level Climbers
Mario Stanley | Coaching Better Humans
Taylor Fragomeni | Routesetting and Coaching from the Female Perspective
A Letter to 2021
BOARD MEETINGS | Stop Blaming the Routesetters
Eric Jerome featuring Max Zolotukhin | What Makes a Great Boulder?
BOARD MEETINGS | Bouldering Tactics: Part 3
BOARD MEETINGS | Bouldering Tactics: Part 2
BOARD MEETINGS | Bouldering Tactics: Part 1
Brandon Belcher | Operating This Body Is Dangerous
Melissa Utomo | Sends and Suffers
Joslynn Corredor | Coaching for a Cause
Paul Piana | Big Walls and Big Dreams
Mario Stanley & Dynell Hunter | Black Joy
BOARD MEETINGS | Worst Advice We Got As Beginners
BOARD MEETINGS | Top 6 Training Myths
Mr. Clipping Chains | Financial Independence
Devin Dabney | Show Up As You Are
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