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Intensity and Focus
There is a great quote from a book I read a few years ago (Greg McKeown's Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less) "The word...
willhammersla
Feb 103 min read
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Building Resilience
Resilience - noun 1. The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness ."the remarkable resilience of so many...
willhammersla
Oct 11, 20244 min read
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Coaching 101
What is a good coach? It’s a question that has begun popping up more and more as the climbing coaching space expands and coaches with...
willhammersla
Oct 8, 20243 min read
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What is Training?
Mindfulness and meditation seem to be 21st century buzz words, with a multitude of apps available to us on our smart devices. We all in...
willhammersla
Jul 2, 20244 min read
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3 Reasons Why I’m Happy I’m Not A Female Routesetter
It’s been 8 years since I first wrote an article, after I set Boulder Nationals in Ballarat with an all male routesetting team, musing on...
willhammersla
Nov 26, 20234 min read
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Form and Function - A View on Aesthetics
I had a fascinating discussion with a fellow head routesetter recently after a stint of travel. The discussion was wide and wandering,...
willhammersla
Aug 8, 20225 min read
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Youth Nationals - By the Numbers
I had the pleasure of chief setting this years youth nationals at Sydney Indoor Villawood (in Sydneys west), after the original chief...
willhammersla
Jun 28, 20221 min read
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Majorities and Minorities
It’s been a few months since climbings debut in the Summer Olympics. I would be interested to know how things changed globally after the...
willhammersla
Apr 20, 20225 min read
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Grades are Dead pt 2.
OK, so, where did we finish? PICA is like RIC, but we have expanded the values, so instead of 1-5, we have 1-7. P (Precision, instead of...
willhammersla
Mar 28, 20226 min read
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Grades are Dead, Long Live Grades pt.1
Prepare yourselves, we are going on a journey, AND we are discussing one of my favourite things..... numbers. V grades are dead, well at...
willhammersla
Mar 21, 20226 min read
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The Safest Place in a Pandemic
It seems pretty likely that we will be dealing with the ongoing pain of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 (or SARS-CoV-2) for a...
willhammersla
Feb 21, 20222 min read
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What is Good Routesetting?
One of the questions that I think about a lot in my job is ‘what is good routesetting?’ This question is important because as the indoor...
willhammersla
Jan 4, 20227 min read
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Worried About Your Climbing Return?
Avoiding injury climbing out of lockdown - a short of what I did.....
willhammersla
Oct 27, 20212 min read
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The Perfect Edge?
One of the questions that has plagued me as a coach, and likely many other climbers and trainers out there, is what is the best edge size...
willhammersla
Oct 20, 20215 min read
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Beta Talk with Nikki
I was stoked to do a virtual chat with Niklas Wiechmann while doing my hotel quarantine after coming back from the Tokyo Olympic Games....
willhammersla
Sep 7, 20211 min read
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Kits and Bits
It's taken me almost a decade to come to grips with what my ultimate routesetting kits looks like. To be honest, I think it will continue...
willhammersla
Apr 14, 20214 min read
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The Hierarchy of Performance
We are all time poor, from the elite athlete to the weekend warrior. No-one has an infinite amount of resources to spend on training,...
willhammersla
Apr 14, 20214 min read
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Mark of the Climber
The number of climbers that sport an injury is astounding. Almost as if a climbing related injury is a form of climbing initiation and...
willhammersla
Apr 14, 20214 min read
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