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maculated
Feb 8, 2009, 8:55 PM
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Hey all,
My little bouldering gym conducted a survey, and 40% of our members said they wanted bouldering clinics. Both I and the other owner of the gym are experienced enough to coach people to improvement (depending on their level), but we have never been to a "learn to improve" clinic.
Any ideas where we can find out how to best conduct such things?
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charley
Feb 9, 2009, 12:56 AM
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I think jl has a book on bouldering. Take a look.
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ryanb
Feb 9, 2009, 8:10 PM
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The gym i go to (stone gardens in seattle) offers these. I've never taken one but i've climbed near them fairly often. It seems to consist of either a somewhat experienced climber teaching 1-5 people basics of movement, pad placement and spotting and/or a very experienced boulder (v13 w/ coaching experience) giving one on one pointers on specific problems and techniques.
Like a "master class" for musicians.
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krusher4
Feb 9, 2009, 8:15 PM
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The Spot (Boulder, CO) has classes like that all the time, check out what they teach. They seem very popular.
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maculated
Feb 9, 2009, 8:17 PM
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Hmm, I might have to check out Stone Gardens this weekend. I'll be up visiting friends. Thanks for the tip.
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sidepull
Feb 10, 2009, 5:11 PM
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I think you'd have good luck simply applying principles from The Self Coached Climber.
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Valarc
Feb 10, 2009, 5:59 PM
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sidepull wrote: I think you'd have good luck simply applying principles from The Self Coached Climber.
^^^^ This. The exercises in SCC are easy to teach, and you can easily have a large-ish group of people all traversing and working on these movements at the same time, with a little bit of space between them.
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mounter
Feb 10, 2009, 6:34 PM
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Copious quantities of beer help in most any situation. HA! ...there's always one jackass in group.
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maculated
Feb 11, 2009, 6:57 PM
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Just bought the SCC, hope you're right! :) I'm an English prof - so course planning is no issue, but for climbing? no idea. :)
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andyjorgen
Feb 24, 2009, 2:37 PM
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I used to climb at the local YMCA. one of the guys who worked there saw that I had a lot of skill for being so young, (this was back when i was like 13 years old)
He got me a free membership and coached me more or less.
The things he taught me, could be taught to a small class. we focused alot on specific problems. he would point one out, not tell me how to do it, so I would have to use my imagination as to how to complete it. he would point out how i could do it differently to improve.
things like, adjust your body weight more downwards rather than out wards. or flag your left foot instead of putting it on that hold.
this may give you ideas
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maculated
Feb 24, 2009, 4:55 PM
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Thanks guys. I bought the Self Coached Climber book (holy moly, that's detailed), watched the DVD (JT512, wassup), and got an outline from a gym in Seattle (not the one recommended - they wanted to charge me $800 for a 4-hour consultation).
Clinic went off well. :) SLO Op is now an educational facility.
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