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Thursday, February 4, 2010 |
TCA See www.bristolexplorers.com for further info.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010 |
TCA
Monday, February 1, 2010 |
TCA We've got Round 3 of the Schools League next Monday (8th Feb) between 5pm and 7pm.
The centre will be busy for these two hours so that's worth bearing in mind when planning your evening's climbing.
Friday, January 29, 2010 |
TCA 
The guys at Climbfind have created a really useful page which collects a good selection of great blogs - ours included. You can see it here. For those who don't know the Climbfind site, it's a great source of information about climbing facilities, both in the UK and further afield, and a good way to meet new climbing partners in your local area.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
TCA We want to say a big TCA thanks to Dave MacLeod for his involvement over the weekend. Dave did some great work with our Youth Squad on Saturday morning and then ran an open coaching session in the afternoon. We'd not seen anything like it at TCA before, but normally our open session coaches get to move around the centre and work with lots of small groups, but Dave soon found that he had a large crowd following his every move and had to adapt to the different situation.
Being a sports scientist, Dave's coaching was very scientific and his approach very different from that of other top coaches. We've had great feedback about the sessions from both the juniors and adults.
The evening lecture was no less stimulating and engaging, and through some of his current projects, Dave explored his mental game of pushing further and harder, and the dedication and committment that allows this to happen. The lecture left us all feeling really psyched about our climbing again.
Dave has written a great little article about his psychological preparation for Echo Wall on the Planet Mountain site - it's well worth a read.
You can also follow more of his adventures and learnings on his blog here.
Signed copies of his coaching book, 9 Out Of 10 Climbers Make The Same Mistakes, are available from TCA at £15 each.
Monday, January 18, 2010 |
TCA
Some of you might have noticed the Climb Swaziland gear box at reception. We are collecting old boots and harnesses/gear to be sent out to help develop climbing in Africa.
Climb Swaziland is a project set up to encourage climbing at school level across Swaziland with the aim to update the facilities at Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, start competing with schools in the Mpumalanga region of South Africa where there are large indoor climbing facilities and set up local community service projects in Swaziland. The project is being led by students at the college and supported by the development office.
Sibusiso Vilane was the first black African to summit Everest, and went on to climb the 7 summits of the world. Sibusiso recently launched the Climb Swaziland project, outlining the importance of youth climbing in Africa and appealing to the climbing community to take part.
The project aims to reach as many international climbers as possible in order to find support from individual climbers, donating old gear and making donations as well as securing main sponsors to fund different aspects of the project.
If you've got anything lying around in safe condition that you want to give to a good cause then just drop it into the centre and we'll make sure it helps climbers who are less fortunate than ourselves.
For more information visit www.climbswaziland.org