Who is it for?
If you are looking for a performance edge and you have the basics in place,then this package will teach you how to use sports psychology techniques specific to climbing to boost your mental skills. Use this alongside your regular climbing and training regime.
What’s inside?
- A guide to the mental skills training package and instructions for all the exercises
- A set of up to 17 exercises designed to enhance your mental skills for climbing
- A set of prompt cards to take to the crag or wall
- Access to 6 audio file downloads to teach you imagery, problem solving, focus and confidence
- A training journal to guide you through habit change, consolidating skills and evaluating your progress
- All housed in a handmade chalkbag made from recycled materials to act as a link between chalking up and dipping into your new mental skills repertoire (if you purchase the digital version of this package, you can house any cards you print off in your own chalkbag).
You can choose a standard Smart Chalkbag for your preferred discipline (eg trad), and also purchase additional top up cards for any other disciplines (sport, bouldering or competition climbing options).
What skills are covered?
Your Smart Chalkbag is based on the latest evidence from sports psychology about what works to improve performance, and combined with 15 years of coaching experience to adapt the techniques to the needs of climbers. Goal setting, self talk, imagery and visualisation, pre-climb routines, managing nerves, finding flow, tactics and much more. It is a comprehensive, self directed mental skills training package. You can find the reference list for the package here.
Sustainability
The recycled chalkbags which house our Smart Chalkbag package are made by the lovely people at Dirtbags and Finch Climbing. They both use recycled material to make the bags, which means that no two bags are the same. So please let me know what kind of chalkbag you prefer – corduroy, floral, funky, or bold colours – in the additional information section of the order form and I will do my best to match the chalkbag to your preferences. The guide, journal and cards are eco printed. You can also choose a digital version if you prefer to avoid printing all together.
James –
Really easy to use, instant impact, minimum fuss tools that I took out of the bag and put into action. I loved having the audio files for the visualisation type techniques. These techniques are game changing, practical, understandable and applicable.