BIGGEST MISTAKES Coach Louis Sees at Every Grade (V0-V9+)
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Published 2023-11-13
As a Catalyst Climbing performance coach, Louis Parkinson has seen a LOT of climbers climb. He's coached many different climbing approaches and techniques, and today, he shares the most common mistakes he observes across climbers of all grades.
In this video, Louis breaks down the key stumbling blocks that climbers frequently encounter, offering practical tips and solutions to overcome them.
From mastering motivation & maintaining climbing confidence to overcoming doubt and climbing plateaus, we've broken down this episode into different grade ranges and included climbers of different abilities to help demonstrate the common errors and bad habits that could be holding your climbing back.
00:00 Catalyst Climbing Introduction
01:30 Maggie, V1 - V3 Climber
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8:45 Sam, V3 - V5 Climber
14:45 Hannah, V5 - V7 Climber
25:30 Nathan, V7 - V9 Climber
29:00 Louis, V9+ Climber
30:00 Summary
For beginners and experienced climbers, this video is packed with valuable insights to help you climb smarter, and harder.
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All Comments (21)
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Finally, Magnus' disguise is on point this time
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I clicked on this for rock climbing advice and got a life lesson about believing in yourself, commitment, trial and error, and the power of could vs should
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The way Louie approaches how he teaches is subtly masterful. Does not sound preachy, does not sound judgemental. He is so patient, kind and supportive. Hes the supportive coach that everyone needs
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The climb with the lowest grade that we fail at has the most to teach us. I need to remember that when I'm avoiding climbs.
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It was so good to see Maggie commit to the scary move!!
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23:27 we all know the importance of giving holds a proper brush, but it’s really good of Louis to show how it can be equally beneficial to give it a good stare down as well
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Love the no-ego, high encouragement and knowledge of you both. Having Louie as a coach would be a DREAM!
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He’s a phenomenal coach. You can tell how seasoned he is, he’s practically able to read minds because he’s seen the same thing so many times.
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I'm sure loads of people have said this, but my favourite part is that none of these tips were "V3 need to flag more" or "V5 need to focus on precision movements" or any other technique-specific problem. It's all about attitude and mindset! 100% why I'm subscribed to Catalyst (and also to HMB!)
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3:19 “good news - I wasn’t wrong” While very accurate, I cannot think of a more British sentence
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love that none of these 'mistakes' are about technique, but all about mindset!
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One other things I would do to increase my confidence at V0~V3 is just jumping off the wall on the comitting move. This way I'm practicing the fall and telling myself that it's not a big deal at all. This is especially usefull when the wall is higher than your confort height, or if you are a little scared of height (Like me!)
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I think "should" also stops us from giving ourselves credit when we DO achieve the challenge! When Louis finally got the orange v8, if he was framing it as "should" in his mind, it takes away any feeling of achievement because "yeah, obviously I got it, I /should/ have been able to do it all along". It's not giving credit to all the progress you made between that moment of thibking you could do something and then the moment of ACTUALLY doing it.
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This was one of if not the most helpful climbing tips videos that I've watched. I've seen a lot of tips for technique stuff, but I find that these tips for how to improve your mindset are a lot more helpful for where I am at right now!
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Louis as always is an absolute beast at teaching
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26:28 one habit I noticed that so many climbers do, also nathan: regripping almost every hold. You can save energy by focusing on grabbing the holds perfectly, especially on easier climbs. That can give you the missing 1-2% to top limit boulders.
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"Feeling like we've plateaued is a matter of how we measure progress." I love that analogy!
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Louis is such a great teacher. Actually I don’t know anything about bouldering. You can also pretty much transfer every tip he gave to for example learning an instrument, crafting, arts, whatever. Loved it!
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Even though I’m a v3-4 climber, the third tip really resonated with me bc I feel like recently I’ve been avoiding certain v2’s(mostly slabs) bc I think they look kinda hard so I just don’t do them. So I’m definitely gonna start doing them again even if I feel should be able to do them and it damages my ego a bit, thanks for tips :)
