The Nugget Climbing Podcast PREMIUM

Maddy Cope is a world-class rock climber and the head of education for Lattice Training. We talked about Maddy’s transition from dancing to climbing, living in a shack in the woods in Chamonix, and lessons from her personal reflections on climbing. We also talked about Lattice’s new online training course that Maddy was in charge of creating and gave a discount for listeners!

Nathan talks about some of his goals in the southeast, how he trains on a board for ROTS, whether the holds have changed on Sleepwalker, ROTS as a life project, the grade of Sleepwalker, projecting tips, what not to do, and trying hard to climb hard.

Nuggets:
(00:00:00) – Southeast goals
(00:01:08) – Board training for ROTS
(00:03:54) – Have the holds on Sleepwalker changed?
(00:06:53) – ROTS as a life project
(00:09:16) – Nathan’s opinion on the grade of Sleepwalker
(00:12:12) – Projecting tips
(00:20:48) – Pre-spray and pressure
(00:28:49) – Try hard to climb hard

Nathan Williams is obsessed with ‘Return of the Sleepwalker’ 9A/V17, and estimates he has spent 100+ days trying it. We talked about getting mentored by Jimmy Webb and Kasia Pietras and sending his first V10 within one year of climbing, why he took a year off, falling in love with ROTS, how to stay psyched after bad days, friction control, climbing with a purpose, gaining legendary finger strength in a few minutes per week, static feats of strength, and much more!

Neely talks about what to eat before climbing, the hardest and easiest parts of building TrainingBeta, her plans to pivot her business, and her stoicism experiment. We also talk about the many climbing podcasts entering the space, and how we each hope to stand out.

Nuggets:
(00:00:00) – Eating before training
(00:02:25) – Challenges with entrepreneurship
(00:04:40) – Climbing podcasts, and doubling down on our strengths
(00:08:17) – Pivoting the Training Beta business
(00:12:16) – Subscriptions and stoicism

Neely Quinn returns to the podcast! We talked about how doing mindset work with Hazel Findlay changed her life, why she decided to become a life coach herself, simple tactics for working through negative emotions and banishing shame, why working on your mindset will make you climb harder, and much more! Neely also gives Steven a life coaching session and helps him find more contentment with his climbing.

Simon answers questions from my Patrons about media attention and whether he thinks he deserves more fame, working as a coach and how coaching affects his climbing, his strengths and weaknesses, when we can expect his films of Burden and Soudain Seul, his thoughts on keeping training fun, his favorite and least favorite training sessions, his proudest climbing moment, Chris Sharma movie trailers, and more!

Nuggets:
(00:00:00) – Media attention
(00:01:51) – Working as a coach
(00:05:08) – Strengths and weaknesses
(00:06:41) – Competition style
(00:10:04) – Films of his 9As
(00:12:00) – Comparing the difficulty of his hardest boulders
(00:19:33) – Keeping training fun
(00:26:31) – Favorite and least favorite training sessions
(00:30:21) – Proudest moment
(00:32:29) – Chris Sharma movie trailers