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My approach to teaching climbing technique is very simple, based upon What, How and When to move. Whatever climbing is to you I am confident it will help you improve. By moving with less energy, making grip when needed and knowing when to move, climbing becomes a curious rather than baffling activity. Climbing is an exhilarating all body challenge that can take you to some great places, but when you start off, even if you’ve climbed before, it can be quite confusing.
“Johnny Dawes is already a legend in British climbing. In 1986, he was responsible for perhaps the most inspired new route in the sport's recent history, a climb called Indian Face on the Welsh crag Clogwyn d'ur Arddu. A fall from its hardest move would most likely be fatal. But Dawes is much more than a risk-taker; his rich imagination for climbing has left outstanding new routes all over the country, not least on the gritstone edges of Derbyshire where his bold and fluid style pushed the barriers of the possible beyond the imagination of almost all his contemporaries. He is an artist really, with a warrior spirit”
Ed Douglas, Writer and journalist
The Pele of rock climbing - the workshop revolutionised the way I now think and move on rock - Johnny took movement and ideas back to their essential components and made us re-evaluate everything that we ever learned. Imaginative and brilliant fun, the workshop was as memorable as any day on rock could ever be.
Rinaldo Colombi
I set competitions based on proprioception and kinaesthetics. Competitions where awareness of position and feeling for movement are the primary challenge. These form a fitting compliment to the power centred approach. since they are often on less steep terrain and allow the client to expand the extent of a dual style comp. It is my intention to share my full understanding of how to innovate movement using imagination..
