Tis the change of season...

and everyone is getting ill.
I am already at stage two of manflu, when the cold heads from my throat to my chest and plays havock. 

Anyway

Pictures of people climbing some things 

On UKB there is some silly thread about the effect of running on climbing. I do not think (as far as I know) that anyone is really good enough at climbing in the world, for running to really have an adverse effect, under the caveat that you are used to both climbing and running, and know how to manage the volume and intensity of both activities to make them work together. 


With the longest sentence over, the best thing to come out of this thread IMO was someone posting this link to an interview with the legend that is Ben Moon. All of his suggestions make sense. Although his thing about goals opposes my opinion, they kind of fit together if you take his advice as my comment of 'managing the steps along the way'. 

One of the unifying elements I seem to have found from speaking to and listening to or reading interviews from all the best climbers is, they all seem to give the really obvious (and often concise) advice that you probably needed to hear. Dave Macleods 9 out of 10 and most other training resources I have come across that people seem to think work, all pretty much offer that sensible and obvious advice that you generally need someone to tell you.

This is the advice that you hear and think, 'That makes so much sense, and if I stick to that for at least a while then maybe it will work for me'. Not the kind of advice that says, "maybe this element of science taken from another source can be applied, and this will happen if you do these things" and similar.

What is great or interesting about this unifying coincidence?
The mindset of successful climbers. 

Some of the best climbers seem to have incredibly analytical minds. This advice is garnered with the consideration of all the systematically equatable aspects within the given problem, and boiled down into often concise results. A good example would be Dave Macleods 'get over falling' part of 9 out of 10, or Ben Moons 'Be patient and let it happen' and 'It's not good if you are not happy'.

Those dead obvious things which, are so obvious that you already knew, but someone needs to remind you of.

I am putting this here to remind myself of these simple pieces of advice, that I just need to remind myself of every once in a while. 

• LITTLE AND OFTEN
• ITS NOT GOOD IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY
• BE PATIENT, LET IT HAPPEN
• KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AND WORK FOR IT
• TAKE FALLS, LEAVE YOUR EGO AT THE FLOOR
• VIEW PROBLEMS ANALYTICALLY - IF THAT DOESN'T WORK, TRY SOMETHING ELSE
• HARDER DOESN'T ALWAYS CLASS AS SOMETHING ELSE
• DON'T KEEP TRYING THE SAME THINGS THAT DO NOT WORK RIGHT NOW
• 1MIN REST PER HARD MOVE
• 8 HOURS OF SLEEP FOR SUCCESS
• BIG SYSTEMS ARE MADE OF MANY TINY COMPONENTS, YOU CAN MAKE A CPU FROM NAND GATES IF YOU WANT
• THINK CONFIDENT CLIMB CONFIDENT, THINK SHIT CLIMB SHIT
• A TRAINING SESSIONS SHOULD BE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY HARD - ENJOY SUFFERING
  
  I will try and add more over time.