Posts Tagged ‘Climbing psychology’

Mind Coaching for climbing performance at the Harrogate Climbing Wall

As we’re now approaching winter many of us hibernate indoors into the many climbing walls around the country investing time, effort and money in order to maintain and improve our climbing performance. It is a reasonable assumption to say that the majority of climbers focus on their physical performance and less on improving the psychological [...]

Mind Coaching with RCUK contributor, Craig Watson at Harrogate Wall

Rock Climbing UK contributor, Craig Watson is going to be delivering a series of climbing psychology workshops at Harrogate wall. Starting this month with a free talk and running right through to April of next year, the workshops promise to be a fantastic resource for anyone looking to push their climbing grade.

Climbing techniques – a plan to raise your game: Week 10 – Improving your mental strength

Hi everyone. Sincere apologies for the delay in writing this post. Christmas and my recent snowboarding trip kind of got in the way. I have to admit that I have done very little climbing over the last few weeks. I’m looking forward to getting back out there as soon as possible. I managed to get a session at my local climbing wall on Friday and climbed surprising well considering I had only managed one previous session since before Christmas.

In this post I’m going to focus on the mental aspects of rock climbing. I’m going to split those into 2 distinct areas:

* Managing stress / fear
* Motivation & focus for performance