Interfering with intrusive mental imagery

What do when you have powerful mental images of things going wrong when you are climbing

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Goal setting - when to start?

Set your goals after easing into the climbing season - get body and brain warmed up so you can set yourself realistic, achievable climbing goals.

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Work and Play

Making the most of your climbing holiday, tactics on routes and getting over nasty falls

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BMC Coaching Symposium

A quick overview of the BMC's Coaching Symposium which Smart Climbing staff attended this weekend

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Research Roundup

A brief digest of the latest psychological research as applied to climbers. Eating behaviours, why bad experiences trump good ones, the collective delusion of confidence, and why its hard to correct small errors in movement. Enjoy!

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Being vs doing

How to prevent your mind from getting ahead of where you actually are when climbing - bringing your attention back to the physical present

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New Year, what's new?

A run down of what's new for 2011 at Smart Climbing - Psychology for Instructors workshop, a prize at LLAMFF, and how my own training is going!

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Smart Climbing - Home

Learning as an adult - how to maximise your chances of successful skill acquisition

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What does the snow mean?!

What can being snow-bound teach us about responding when things don't go according to plan? Flexible problem solving and open-ness to new experiences when the going gets tough

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Photos from 2010 open course

If you are on Facebook, then you can join our Smart Climbing group and see photos from the 2010 Open Workshop

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