Training Info
Training for Rock Climbers:
We give short clinics to longer seminars and camps on developing greater mental fitness. Below are some of our training classes.
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Falling & Commitment Espresso Clinic/Camp:
- 4-Hour clinic when taught in climbing gyms
- 2 to 3-day in-depth camp when taught at outdoor crags
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Description: This training addresses falling directly to help improve commitment. We do progressive falling practice, followed by movement, breathing, resting, and body/mind awareness exercises. Finally, students apply everything to a goal route. Students leave understanding how to take appropriate risks and how to commit to those risks.
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You’ll learn how to:
- Fall safely
- Give a dynamic (cushioned) belay
- Break a climb into smaller risk events
- Assess risks effectively
- Distinguish between no- and yes-fall zones
- Engage no- and yes-fall zones
- Make appropriate risk decisions
- Improve body and mind awareness
- Rest effectively
- Improve breathing
- Create flow and momentum
- Deal with climbing stress
- Commit more deliberately
- Reduce fear, and more
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Pre-requisites:
- Able to toprope 5.8 in a gym with no falls
- Climb indoors/outdoors at least 1-2 times per week
- At least 6 months of continuous climbing experience within the last year
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Falling Clinic/Camp:
- 3-Hour clinic when taught in climbing gyms
- 1-day in-depth camp when taught at outdoor crags
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Description: Being effective in climbing requires us to understand the consequences of our decisions and actions. In climbing the main consequence is falling. By understanding how to fall we diminish the chance of injury and allow us to focus attention effectively on climbing.
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You’ll learn how to:
- Fall safely through progressive falling practice
- Give a dynamic (cushioned) belay
- Fall while clipping or committing
- Distinguish between no- and yes-fall zones
- Deal with fear of falling
- Focus on what you can control
- Reduce fear, and more
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Process: You’ll start by learning how to fall on a loose top rope and gradually increase your fall distance until you work your way up to taking lead falls.
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Pre-requisites:
- Able to toprope 5.8 in a gym with no falls
- Climb indoors/outdoors at least 1-2 times per week
- At least 6 months of continuous climbing experience within the last year
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Commitment Clinic/Camp:
- 3-Hour clinic when taught in climbing gyms
- 1-day in-depth camp when taught at outdoor crags
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Description: How do you react when you are pumped and doubting your ability to commit? Many climbers lose commitment because they over-think. To stay committed you need to stop at stances and think through the risk. Then you need to make an appropriate risk decision, and commit completely to taking action on that decision. That is the emphasis of this camp.
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You’ll learn to:
- Become aware of your mind’s limiting tendencies
- Use your mind’s intelligence to do effective risk-assessment
- Distinguish between no-fall and yes-fall zones
- Make appropriate risk decisions
- Rest efficiently
- Develop flow and momentum
- Deal with climbing stress/chaos
- Improve problem-solving skills
- Reduce fear, and more
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Pre-requisites:
- Able to toprope 5.8 in a gym with no falls
- Climb indoors/outdoors at least 1-2 times per week
- At least 6 months of continuous climbing experience within the last year
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Trad Camp:
- 3-day in-depth camp blending mental training with learning trad, taught at outdoor crags
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Description: This course is geared toward aspiring trad leaders who want to learn how to lead trad routes without being paralyzed by the fear of falling. After the weekend you’ll climb stronger, smarter, safer and more efficiently, and you’ll have the skills you need for leading traditional routes, through the application of the Warriors Way material.
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You’ll learn to:
- Place and assess trad lead protection
- Build belay anchors
- Lead traditional routes safely and efficiently
- Take practice falls on your gear to develop confidence in your gear placements (with a back-up toprope)
- Cracks of all sizes from finger cracks to offwidths
- Assess risks effectively, allowing you to take appropriate risks
- Improve self awareness, rest effectively, make deliberate decisions, improve commitment, increase climbing momentum, and improve problem-solving skills
- Improve safety awareness
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Pre-requisites:
- Able to lead 5.8 sport, or top-rope 5.9 with no falls
- Climb indoors/outdoors at least 1-2 times per week
- At least 6 months of continuous climbing experience within the last year
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Cliff PA (Performance Analysis at a crag)
Individual instruction tailored to your specific needs.
See Events for up-coming training sessions.
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Presentations:
We give presentations to climbing groups, at climbing events, or to non-climbing organizations. Topics include:
- Introduction to Mental Fitness Training
- Practical Applications of The Warrior’s Way
- Risk Taking
- Developing awareness
- Risk Assessment
- Taking Effective Action
- The Practice Process
Contact us if you’d like to book one.
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Other Training:
We are in the process of developing training classes for individuals and organizations outside of rock climbing. Stay tuned for future developments.
