Performance Climbing - long weekend
  • Plas y Brenin
  • 3 Days
  • 2 People to 1 instructor

Performance Climbing - long weekend

  • Climb
  • Advanced
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Overview

Push your grade, improve your technique and develop your confidence on rock with top-level training in all aspects of rock climbing, from bouldering to sport to trad.

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The Objectives

Over five days of personalized coaching you’ll push your grade, improve your technique and develop your confidence. Our staff are passionate climbers, and passionate about helping others achieve their full potential. With a wealth of amazing climbing on different rock types, mountain crags, and sea cliffs, you can expect to really stretch your skillset and see rapid improvements in your performance.

Throughout the course, you will:

  • Identify personal strengths, habits and areas for improvement through observation and feedback
  • Develop more effective footwork, balance, body positioning and movement efficiency
  • Improve route reading and plan your approach to challenging climbing
  • Explore pacing, energy management, route preparation and strategies for attempting difficult moves
  • Understand how fear, uncertainty and expectations can influence climbing performance
  • Develop strategies for different rock types and climbing styles
  • Experiment with alternative techniques and develop greater adaptability on unfamiliar climbs
  • Identify practical ways to structure your climbing, practise effectively and continue improving after the course

Itinerary

* Please note: Itinerary is subject to weather and availability.

Day 1 – Understanding your climbing
We'll begin by discussing your climbing experience and aspirations.
Heading to a suitable crag, we'll observe how you climb, exploring your movement patterns and identifying potential areas for development.
By the end of the day, you'll have a clearer understanding of your current strengths and some specific areas to work on during the weekend.

Day 2 – Developing technique and climbing tactics
We will head to another crag to focus on the techniques and strategies most relevant to your development.
Alongside movement coaching, we'll consider the tactical aspects of performance, including route reading, pacing, managing effort and making effective use of rests.
We'll also explore how confidence, commitment and fear can influence climbing, introducing practical approaches to managing these factors.

Day 3 – Putting performance into practice
Our final day provides the opportunity to bring together the skills and strategies developed throughout the weekend. We'll aim to climb at a venue that offers suitable challenges for the group, allowing you to apply your learning in a realistic climbing environment.
We'll finish by reflecting on your progress and developing a practical plan for taking your climbing further.

This itinerary is indicative. Coaching activities, venues and routes or boulders will be tailored to participants' experience, individual objectives and prevailing weather and rock conditions.

Experience Required

This course is designed for established climbers who want to improve their climbing performance.
You should be confidently leading at VS or above, and be wanting to break into the next grade

Available Course Dates

Start the booking process by selecting a course date, then adjust your details to suit your requirements.

Course Start Date
Duration
Cost*
Course Start Date
3rd September, 2027
Duration
3 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£405.00
Residential:
£615.00

*If your course is based at Plas Y Brenin, Capel Curig, residential prices include catering from the morning of your course start date and cover the duration of your course, accommodation starts on the night before your course commences to the morning of the last day of your booking.

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