The Power Company Climbing Podcast

Ravioli Biceps and Nate Drolet | The Parallels Between Climbing and Video Games

Nate and Ravioli Biceps have been friends for more than 15 years, since long before Ravioli became the reigning king of the Moonboard. In this conversation, they discuss the myriad of lessons they pull from video gaming that can help inform our life and climbing. 
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Check out our NEW Atomic Elements Movement Course.
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Ravioli Biceps | Moonboard Benchmarking
Board Meetings | The Pros and Cons of Gamifying Climbing
Board Meetings | How To Make the Most of a Board Session
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A Better Framework for Assessing and Improving Climbing Movement and Technique

Improving climbing movement is challenging. Understanding what you most need to improve is even more challenging. The discussions around climbing technique have always been either extremely abstract or specific to a single move on a single climb. 
It doesn't have to be that way.
Check out the new course and movement evaluation tool: The Atomic Elements of Climbing Movement
Watch the video of Kris failing to commit.
Read more and see the video for this episode on the blog.
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Our Movement Practice Resource Page
Board Meetings | The Art of Learning Climbing
Rethinking Climbing Technique and Movement Skills
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Allyson Gunsallus | The Challenges of Parenting as a Climber

Allyson Gunsallus is a mom and climber who is directing and producing a film series called Hand Holds: Climbing After Parenthood with the aim of benefitting parental and maternal wellness in the community.  Currently shooting, with plans to release in spring 2025, this free-to-watch series will feature interviews with well-known climbers to uncover how families address logistical challenges, issues like postpartum recovery, and more – topics rarely explored in climbing media.
Learn more about Hand Holds.
Support the project through Seed & Spark.
Support the project through The Gotham Film & Media Institute.
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Climbing and Parenting with Beth Rodden
Raising Them Right with Constance Lightner
Mental Toughness with Emily Tilden
Meghan Baker is a Not So Average Jane
Climbing Training and Pregnancy: My Journey, with coach Jess West
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📚 CHAPTERS
(0:00) Theme
(0:36) Introduction
(1:40) Guest Introduction
(3:32) Hand Holds Name Origin
(8:48) Parenting for the Second Time
(14:35) Modeling Passion
(19:16) What is Hand Holds?
(28:13) Who will be profiled?
(30:18) Goals for Hand Holds
(48:03) Where will it be? How can we help?
(53:05) Wrap Up
(54:34) Theme

EVERY BODY CLIMBS | Fallon Rowe on Learning Mental Gymnastics So Our Bodies Can Climb

Fallon Rowe has been climbing since 2003 and coaching since 2013. After a decade of youth and collegiate competitions, she found her true passion for outdoor climbing – both sport and trad. She’s spent her adult life pursuing climbing all over the world while offering (mostly) virtual coaching.
In her words, she helps “climbers optimize their experience using mindset and mental performance techniques, like working on fear of falling, and analyzing movement and technique with video feedback and visualization.”
Host Emily Chen-Newton and Fallon share a genetic collagen disorder (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome). In this conversation they talk how this condition impacts their climbing – and how Fallon coached Emily through some of these issues.
Fallon also has a condition called, POTS which you'll hear mentioned in this episode. It's a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. Things that should be “automatic go haywire”, she says. So, her body doesn't properly regulate things like blood pressure, heart rate and temperature. Fallon’s main symptom is lightheadedness or pre-syncope (the feeling you get before you faint). 
Fallon is also a rock-climbing guide and teaches courses on trad climbing, anchor building, and more. She is sponsored by The Desert Rat, Cypher Climbing, HILX Eyewear, and Crux Power. Her education as a geologist gives her a deep connection to nature, and she loves playing the fiddle, shooting pool, wandering the desert, writing and photographing climbing.
We start this episode with Fallon talking about a recent time when she was digging into some of those "non climbing" hobbies as she was recovering from a tendon tweak. BUT, as she tells us, this injury hit differently than others in the past -- in a good way. 
*While Fallon Rowe and host Emily both discuss their medical conditions and how they’ve learned to live with them, this content is not, and does not replace medical advice.
Fallon can be reached on Instagram @fallonclimbs or on her website.
Aug 2-4th workshop 
How to climb with hEDS
Climbing with POTS
What is hEDS?
What is POTS?
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Theme music sample attribution: Creeper_Ciller78
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Maureen Beck | Adapting
Justin Salas | Nonsighting
REWIND | Craig DeMartino on Making Hard Decisions and Using Limitations
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BOARD MEETINGS | Our Favorite Effective Finger Strength Protocols

There are a million of them out there, but not all finger strength protocols transfer well to climbing, or are time efficient, or are even possible with the tools we have. In this episode, Kris and Nate discuss their favorite protocols, both that they use themselves and in programming for their clients.
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Our Finger Strength Resource Page
Eva Lopez | The Best Hangboard Protocol
Breaking Beta | Is This the Best Hangboard Protocol?
Breaking Beta | Which Finger Strength Protocol is Best for Endurance?
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📚 CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro and Topic Explanation
(20:25) Long Duration Finger Health Hangs
(22:15) Multi-Grip Block Workout
(28:07) Eva Lopez MAW and MED Hangs 
(33:27) Too Easy to Fail (2 Hangs per Session)
(38:32) Offset Hangs or Pulls on a Hangboard or Bouldering Wall
(44:07) 6:10 Repeaters
(56:28) 5:55 Three Finger Alternating Hangs
(1:02:12) Three Max Hangs of 6 Seconds Each
(1:08:43) Outro

FOCUS Q&A 2: Movement Solutions, Finding Better Beta, and Toe Hooks vs. Heel Hooks

Be the first to learn about about the new Movement Assessment Tool & Mini-Course!
 
In Part 2 of this special Q & A episode, Kris fields questions from YOU! Sent in from our YouTube subscribers, training clients, and more, Kris digs into what you want to know when it comes to climbing movement.
This is Part 2 so be sure to check out Part 1, if you haven't already!
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The Bouldering Process | Flight of the Antelope (V10)
The Process of Dealing with Fear While Bouldering
CONFLICTED | Boards as Movement Assessment Tools
The #1 Setup Mistake Climbers Make on Hard Moves
Contrast Warm Up (aka Sloth Monkeys) Drill
Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast Drill
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📚 CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro(03:06) Finding the Best Beta(09:12) Strength vs. Movement(09:55) Heel Hooks vs. Toe Hooks(11:05) The Mystery of Toe Hooks(18:08) How to Coach Toe Hooks(22:07) How to Know You’re Improving(27:56) The Best Level to Learn Movement(28:58) How to Know What to Work On(31:00) How to Improve Pacing and Rhythm(36:37) How to Improve at Scary Moves(41:24) Movement to Focus On Pre-Trip(43:46) False Start Hover Drill(48:35) Movement Work After a Break From Climbing(51:40) We’re Thinking of Movement Backwards(55:11) Outro

TAPED TIPS | 5 Simple Ways to Climb Harder

You’re scrolling Instagram or YouTube or listening to the newest podcast episodes, and now, just today, you’ve got three new finger strength protocols to try, you learned that your footwork needs overhauling, you’re warming up all wrong, and you have to buy a few new training devices.
And you have to implement it all right now, because, well, you just do. It doesn’t matter that you have no idea if anything has worked – or will work – because the next thing could be THE thing, and you’ve been plateaued and need to level up right now.
The good news is that you don’t have to stop consuming all of the information and trying new things and learning as much as possible.
You can keep at it. Collect it all.
But...
 
Read the rest on the blog!
Watch the video on YouTube!
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Taped Tips | The Secret to Hard Moves that Most Climbers Are Missing
Taped Tips | The Setup Mistake Climbers Make on Hard Moves
Taped Tips | Climb Taller AND Smaller
Our Movement Practice Resource Page
The Hard Truth: Simple Ways to Become A Better Climber – Use code POD at checkout for 20% off!
Find the Proven Plan That Fits You
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FOCUS Q&A 1: Climbing Movement Principles, Skill vs. Strength, and How to Evaluate

Be the first to learn about about the new Movement Assessment Tool & Mini-Course!
 
In this special Q & A episode, Kris fields questions from YOU! Sent in from our Patrons, Kris digs into what you want to know when it comes to climbing movement.
This is Part 1 of 2 episodes so be sure to stay tuned for Part 2, coming soon!
Thanks to Patrons Cody Ratterman, Matt, Martin Bertram, Lydia Benitez, and Yoav Pinto for the great questions!
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Our Movement Practice Resource Page
Rethinking Climbing Technique and Movement Skills
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📚 CHAPTERS
(0:00) Intro
(2:02) Movement Principles Specificity
(5:14) Wall Angles
(9:07) Conditions Affect Movement
(13:40) Training with Bad Feet
(19:50) Combined Movement and Energy Systems
(25:02) Movement vs. Strength Questions
(31:48) How to Evaluate Movement
(37:52) Movement Assessment Tool

TAPED TIPS | How To Climb Taller AND Smaller

Short climbers are good at getting scrunchy, and tall climbers are good at climbing extended, right?
Ummm, no. Not always.Actually, not even most of the time.
Believing that, particularly if you’re one of those short or tall climbers, is a trap. I’m going to tell you why, and I’m going to tell you exactly how to make sure you don’t fall into this trap. Or if you’re in it already, how to get out, so that we can all extend our useful range...
Read the rest on the blog!
Watch the video on YouTube!
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You might enjoy these related articles, episodes, and other resources:
Taped Tips | The Secret to Hard Moves that Most Climbers Are Missing
Taped Tips | The Setup Mistake Climbers Make on Hard Moves
Our Movement Practice Resource Page
Marina Inoue | Does Size Matter?
Applied Body Tension Ebook
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REWIND | Can We Accurately Measure the Movement Skills of Sport Climbers?

Today we rewind to an episode of Breaking Beta where Kris and Paul dig into a paper that presents and then tests a method for measuring movement skills in climbing:
Climbing performance analysis: A novel tool for the assessment of rock climber's movement performanceAuthored by Nicola Taylor, Dave Giles, Michaela Panáčková, James Mitchell, Joel B. Chidley, and Nick Draper; published in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance in January, 2020.
They’ll attempt to determine whether or not movement skills in climbing can even be measured reliably, and if the proposed system translates to anything useful for everyday climbers and coaches trying to assess movement.
 
This episode originally aired on July 27, 2022.
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More Episodes of Breaking Beta: The Science of Climbing Podcast
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📚CHAPTERS
(00:00) Notes From Kris
(3:11) Introduction
(6:48) Methods
(15:37) Results and Our Thoughts
(27:37) What Should Come Next?
(34:34) Wrap Up
(39:28) Credits and Theme