Sunday 20 March 2011

BMC Symposium day 2


Another great day at the BMC Coaching Symposium. today Squawk talked us though preparation for competitors, the nutritionist for the British Squad did an excellent job of dispelling some myths, we heard about Psychologically dealing with the stress of comps and Steve Long from MLT outlined the proposals for a multi level UK Climbing Wall based Coaching Award to stand alongside the existing 'Technical/Safety' based awards (CWA/SPA/MIA/MIC/BMG). We heard a lot about the progress that has been made in helping stakeholders understand and get over a scepticism of coaching in climbing at all levels- its about giving people the ability to fulfil THEIR potential to a level that THEY want to whilst enjoying themselves- its not all about creating Olympic athletes. Productive day with some possible exciting developments for me too...
Great job done by Jon Garside in putting the weekend together and Plas Y Brenin for hosting it too

2 comments:

Rog said...

What no Yop!

Alan said...

Actually it was discussed and came out ahead of many sports specific drinks. But a cheaper alternative was skimmed milk powder hydrated with fruit (especially banana) -milkshake in the slide.