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Sports:Wilderness
I’m actually not a big fan of the term “drills”, but I don’t have a better word for it. I don’t like it for several reasons:
One, because we aren’t “drilling” anything in. Despite the popular belief, that’s not actually how learning works. Performance, maybe, but not learning. And in my book, these “drills” are for learning.
Two, there are just too many coaches who assume that harder equals better. They just keep stacking difficulties onto their drills as if those difficulties are all going to make you better at climbing. Now we see climbers bouncing one-legged on a Bosu Ball balanced on a slackline while blindfolded and miming rose moves because…
WHY?
Yeah, I don’t know either. And today, we’re going to talk about why that might not be the best solution.
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 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
Genevive Walker | Black Voices Matter
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