The Testpiece Podcast
#52: No Coach? No Problem — How to Self Analyze, Learn How to Answer the Question “Why?”, Using Video for Success, What your Friends Know (or DON’T)
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Quick takeaways
- Solicit feedback from friends and session partners to gain new perspectives and insights.
- Offer tangible and actionable suggestions when providing feedback to others.
- Expose yourself to diverse climbing environments and challenges to enhance your performance.
- Engage in discussions with fellow climbers to expand your understanding and explore new ideas.
- Self-analysis is crucial for growth and improvement, utilize video analysis for objective feedback and identify areas for enhancement.
Deep dives
Ask for Feedback
To improve your climbing, ask your friends or session partners for feedback on your movements and efforts. Be open to receiving their opinions and consider trying their suggestions to stretch your perspectives and gain new insights.
Give Constructive Feedback
When offering feedback to others, focus on providing suggestions that are tangible and actionable. Help them identify specific areas for improvement and offer guidance on how to make adjustments. Remember to give feedback from a place of care and support for their success.
Calibrate and Learn from Different Climbing Experiences
Expose yourself to diverse climbing environments and challenges, and pay attention to how these experiences affect your climbing. Take note of what you learn from different areas and reflect on how it influences your performance and perspective.
Consider Different Perspectives
Be open to different opinions and perspectives in climbing. Engage in discussions with fellow climbers to gain insights and expand your understanding. Challenge yourself to explore new ideas, techniques, and approaches to enhance your climbing abilities.
Importance of Self-Analysis in Climbing
Self-analysis is a fundamental tool for growth and development in climbing. It allows climbers to understand their strengths, weaknesses, and the mechanics of their movement. By analyzing their own performance, climbers can make informed decisions, improve their technique, and overcome challenges. Self-analysis helps climbers understand what is possible and what they need to do to improve. It requires objectivity and a willingness to ask why and dig deeper into the cause and effect of their movements. Video analysis is a valuable tool that can aid in self-analysis by providing visual feedback on performance and identifying areas for improvement.
Balancing Feeling and Objectivity
While feelings are an important aspect of climbing, they should not solely dictate decision-making. It is crucial to balance feelings with objectivity and analysis. The importance of dropping the reliance on feelings is highlighted, as they are subjective and can often lead climbers astray. Instead, climbers should focus on objective analysis, understanding the physics and biomechanics of their movements, and asking why they fell or encountered challenges. Objectivity helps climbers make more informed choices and expand their understanding of what is possible. By challenging negative feelings and developing a broader perspective, climbers can overcome self-imposed limitations and pursue new possibilities.
Utilizing Video Analysis in Self-Analysis
Video analysis is a valuable tool that climbers can use to enhance their self-analysis. By capturing their climbing sessions on video, climbers can objectively observe their movements and identify areas for improvement. Video analysis can help answer questions like why they fell, what they could have done differently, and how to sustain tension throughout a climb. It allows climbers to spot errors in technique, understand body positioning, and fine-tune their movements. Additionally, video analysis provides an opportunity for climbers to compare their performance with others and learn from different approaches. Incorporating video analysis into self-analysis facilitates a deeper understanding of one's own climbing style and helps identify ways to optimize performance.
Importance of Self-Analysis in Climbing
Self-analysis plays a crucial role in climbing as it helps climbers understand what they are trying to accomplish and what is available to them in order to achieve their goals. By asking key questions such as 'What am I trying to accomplish?' and 'What do I have available?', climbers can gain a better understanding of their movements and techniques. Performance failure can be attributed to a lack of self-analysis and a misunderstanding of what needs to be achieved. Climbers often focus on individual holds or moves, but fail to consider the overall objective. By analyzing factors like body positioning, footwork, and leveraging tension, climbers can identify areas for improvement and work towards optimal movement.
Developing Self-Awareness through Video Analysis
Video analysis is a valuable tool for climbers to enhance their self-awareness and improve their performance. It allows them to closely examine their movements and understand the subtle nuances that contribute to success or failure on a route or boulder problem. By watching videos of their climbs, climbers can focus on more than just the distance to the next hold. They can analyze factors such as hip positioning, leg straightening, arm movement, and body angle. This detailed analysis helps them understand why certain movements work and others don't, leading to a deeper understanding of their own climbing style and potential areas for improvement. Developing self-awareness through video analysis can ultimately lead to optimal movement and performance on the wall.
Most of the time we don’t have a coach sitting behind us giving feedback. So what do you when you are by yourself and stuck? How do you do learn to coach yourself when no one is around?
Tim and Josh share how to use video, questions, and friends, to answer the questions “Why?” [did I fall]. Tim shows how this is one of the most important skills to develop in order to get better, forever.
They use real examples of routes and boulders they struggled on to show how they were able to progress without the help of a coach. By being their own coach!
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