The Power Company Climbing Podcast
Sports:Wilderness
Today we REWIND back to one of our favorite Board Meetings of all time. We chose this episode because we are spending the next couple months digging deep into movement and learning, and exploring if there might be a better way to consider movement than the technique-based way we’ve always done it. In this episode, Kris and Nate discuss ideas presented by author Josh Waitzkin about our mental models for learning, specifically after hearing him as a guest on Tim Ferriss's podcast, and how we might apply these ideas to climbing.
This episode originally aired on April 5, 2020.
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🔍 EXPLORE FURTHER
You might enjoy these related articles, episodes, and other resources:
THE CURRENT | Rethinking Climbing Technique and Movement Skills
TAPED TIPS | Difficulties Should Be Desirable
TAPED TIPS | When Beta Isn’t Better
BOARD MEETINGS | Common Sense vs. Common Practice
Josh Waitzkin on Beginner’s Mind, Self-Actualization, and Advice from Your Future Self | The Tim Ferriss Show
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
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📚CHAPTERS
(0:00) Theme
(0:37) Intro
(2:29) Topic Description
(4:09) New Feedback Paradigms and Opportunities
(8:28) More Feedback isn’t Always Better
(12:00) Observation and Building Awareness
(17:07) How Routesetting Helps Understand Movement
(19:26) When the Poetic Perfection Has Been Marred
(24:03) Unexpected Learning From What You Deem Not Useful
(32:15) The Thematic Elements of Climbing Movement
(39:58) Self Expression via Movement
(43:29) Reps Hidden in Plain Sight
(51:22) The Ultimate Way to Get in High Quality Reps
(55:24) Hidden Reps We Often Miss
(01:02:14) The Gap in Our Confidence
(01:05:35) Comp Boulders and Discomfort
(01:08:10) How the Best Climbers React to Discomfort
(01:10:35) Setting Hard Things for Yourself
(01:22:41) Put the Wrench Away
(01:13:54) Outro
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
Brown Girls Climb | A Starting Point
BOARD MEETINGS | Granny Shot: Do You Follow the Crowd?
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