Ep. 136: Successful Climbing Coaching with Will Hammersla
As the National Coach for Sport Climbing Australia, Will Hammersla has a tough job. The Olympics are now in play, and in a country as spread out as Australia, where it can be 10 hours between major cities, cultivating a "team" is damn near impossible. But he's working at it on a bedrock of solid principles and philosophies, and the work seems to be paying off.
This Bouldering World Cup season, Oceana Mackenzie, a young Australian climber coached by Will, made her first adult finals in Japan. She did so by topping a problem that neither Shauna Coxsey or Akiyo Noguchi were successful on, and in the process, inspired Australia to pay more attention to their competitive climbers.
Aman Anderson is opening doors to climbing with the BFL Combine.
Our good friend Lauren Abernathy talks about the challenges of being a female coach in a male-dominated industry.
Coaching kids is more than just making stronger climbers.
Taylor Fragomeni shares lessons she’s learned from routesetting and coaching as a female.
Joslynn Corredor is helping women rediscover their athletic identity.
Meet Lee Cossey: coach, gym owner, and Australia’s best all around climber.
A refreshing approach to coaching from Australia’s National Coach, Will Hammersla.
If you're a coach, this is a must listen to episode. In fact, if you're a climber who wants to learn to climb better, it's a must listen.
Today's episode is a question and answer session from the Performance Climbing Coach Seminar, recorded live in Columbia, MD.
Taylor Reed and Bella Jariel set the bar high for being a successful coach/climber team. Taylor has helped coach Bella to big success on the international stage.
Salt Lake climber and coach Steve Maisch had some of the first assessments I remember seeing online, and we go into how he's added, subtracted, and refined those.
After you've done your assessments, you've trained and met the standards, you've won or lost, or your season is over... Now What?
Lantien Chu is the coach of a high school swim team that has won 21 consecutive state titles.
A room full of superheroes in Australia’s climbing epicenter.
Sometimes you're improving, but the grades don't reflect that. Does that mean you're on a forever plateau?
Meet Lee Cossey: coach, gym owner, and Australia’s best all around climber.
A refreshing approach to coaching from Australia’s National Coach, Will Hammersla.
Australian climber Anna Davey has big goals, and the dedication to get there.
A climber since 1994, Kris was a traddie for 12 years before he discovered the gymnastic movement inherent in sport climbing and bouldering. Through dedicated training and practice, he eventually built to ascents of 5.14 and V11.
Kris started Power Company Climbing in 2006 as a place to share training info with his friends, and still specializes in working with full time "regular" folks. He's always available for coaching sessions and training workshops.
Lauren Abernathy, coach and owner of Good Spray Climbing, works hard to help her clients – and herself – become better climbers.