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Expert Analysis: Mental Game with Lor Sabourin

The Struggle Climbing Show

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The Fear of Falling

In the US, to get your lead card, you have to take some huge whippers from the top of the wall. What happens is we ingrain a fear response in our body and that's an adaptive thing. When most mental training coaches work with climbers, they start climbers well below the bolt,. So every fall, they're exhaling, they're in a relaxed body position. They're looking down in the direction, their eyes are open. We don't just teach them that, but we also teach them to be aware and be able to articulate what they were focusing on. And so then they learn from those little micro traumas in their body by falling well.

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