TAPED TIPS | Difficulties Should Be Desirable

The Power Company Climbing Podcast · Oct 21, 2022 · 5m

I’m actually not a big fan of the term “drills”, but I don’t have a better word for it. I don’t like it for several reasons:

One, because we aren’t “drilling” anything in. Despite the popular belief, that’s not actually how learning works. Performance, maybe, but not learning. And in my book, these “drills” are for learning.

Two, there are just too many coaches who assume that harder equals better. They just keep stacking difficulties onto their drills as if those difficulties are all going to make you better at climbing. Now we see climbers bouncing one-legged on a Bosu Ball balanced on a…