To change you must raise the bar! Step outside of what you have known before and push your limits outwards.
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Climbing philosophy
The pursuit of in-sight is a common theme amongst top performing climbers. They seem to search out this space and learn from it. We can learn from them and search it out too.
So if we avoid injury can we climb for longer in life? Seems plausible.
Asking these 4 questions changed my rock climbing forever! Without asking these questions my climbing would not have developed with any focus to where it is today. I am going to share these questions with you here. I hope they with help to focus you and your rock climbing…
The next time I go to the climbing wall I am going to try sequences of moves I don’t think I can do. I will report back. You could too…let me know how you get on…could be a tough challenge.
Experienced, high performing climbers have learned the art of failing fast, and this is one of the keys to their success. There is something in this we can all learn from. They have the ability to attempt a sequence of moves when failure is a very real potential outcome.
Until now climbers have just gone climbing to get better at climbing. In many cases the benefits of pull up routines hanging on door frames and sit ups while watching tv were shared around the climbing community. A kind of haphazard hearsay approach to coaching. In many cases it worked, something worked. Improvements were made and harder climbs were ascended. It is now not uncommon for climbing coaches to have their own coach. Yes, coaches coaching coaches!!! Ben Moon has a coach, Adam Ondra has a coach, even the free spirited Chris Sharma has a coach. I took some time to find out why...
In the Autumn of 2003 I was sitting is a class room trying in vain to listen to a lecture from a middle aged Canadian kayaker. After staring out of the window for an hour the lecture had passed I packed up and sped off in my little red Mini. The lesson; the importance of reviewing. Maybe what follows is what he spoke of. See Sir, despite my gazing out of the window at the view I did listen.