Beyond Grades
Stop chasing numbers. Start understanding your climbing on a deeper level.
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Module 1 - Welcome & How to Use This Course
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Module 2 - The Framework Overview & Self-Assessment
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Why Grades Don't Tell the Whole Story
Why climbing grades alone are a poor measure of performance.
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The Beyond Grades Framework
Learn about the 5 key areas, then fill out the self-assessment.
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The Motor Learning Landscape
An overview of how comfort zones, habits, and exploration shape your movement, skill, and progression.
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Worksheet: Beyond Grades Self-Assessment
Module 2 Worksheet
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Module 3 - Where Training Fits In
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Module 4 - Versatility
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Exposure Creates Skill: Why Versatility Matters
How variability in your practice helps you develop skills, become more adaptable, and progress in the long-term.
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When to Work on Versatility
How to balance building versatility and prioritizing performance across different seasons of your climbing year.
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What's Keeping You Stuck in Valleys
How strength, technique, and mindset each influence versatility, and how different climbers may need different approaches to become more adaptable.
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Worksheet: Mapping Your Landscape
Module 4 Worksheet
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Versatility Practice Session
Module 4 Practice Session
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Module 5 - Technical Skills
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Getting a Gauge of Your Toolbox
Knowing about a technique isn’t the same as being able to use it: how limited access to your tools can hold you back.
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The Best Way to Build New Skills
What happens when your current solutions stop working, and how practice environments drive skill development.
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Where Technique Intersects with Strength & Mindset
Learn how your current balance of strength, technique, and mindset influences the solutions you choose on the wall
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Worksheet: Toolbox Audit
Module 5 Worksheet
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Practice Session: Break the Beta
Module 5 Practice Session
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Module 6 - Route Reading
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What Makes A Skilled Route Reader
Understanding when route reading matters and what sets good route readers apart.
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The 3-Part Process of Effective Route Reading
3 skills that reduce hesitation, simplify decisions, and help you adapt faster on the wall.
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Bringing Awareness to Your Biases
How biases stemming from strength, technique, and mindset affect your route reading, and how awareness can improve your performance.
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Worksheet: Route Reading Patterns
Module 6 Worksheet
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Practice Session: Pre-Climb Checklist
Module 6 Practice Session
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Module 7 - On-The-Wall Decision Making
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The Perception-Action Cycle
How time and pressure create different decision-making situations, and why perception is the foundation of effective action.
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When to Wait and When to Move
Learn to balance pausing for more information versus committing under pressure.
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The Factors Driving Your Decisions
How strength, technique, and mindset expand or limit your options on the wall.
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Worksheet: Perceive, Choose, Commit
Module 7 Worksheet
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Practice Session: Split Decisions
Module 7 Practice Session
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Module 8 - Problem-Solving
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Creating Your Problem-Solving Process
A repeatable framework that guides your problem-solving through exploration, refinement, and execution.
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Common Problem-Solving Sticking Points
3 ways climbers get stuck while problem-solving, and strategies to work through them.
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What's Blinding You From Better Solutions?
How assumptions and frustration can limit your problem-solving, and strategies to stay open, curious, and creative on the wall.
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Worksheet: Build Your Beta Standards
Module 8 Worksheet
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Practice Session: 3 Ways
Module 8 Practice Session
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The Beyond Grades Framework
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The Beyond Grades Framework ✳
Grades don’t tell the whole story.
This course dives deep into 5 Key Areas to get a holistic view of your climbing, not just the numbers attached to it.
What you’ll learn
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Stop guessing and start understanding exactly which areas of your climbing need attention, so you can focus your effort where it matters most.
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Develop both the on-the-wall skills and off-the-wall tactics that help you show up prepared, make better decisions, and trust yourself more.
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Create meaningful, long-term improvements in your climbing. These aren’t just fleeting results, but real growth that compounds over time.
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Course FAQ
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This course is for climbers who
Feel stuck, even if they’re training regularly
Feel overwhelmed by all the information out there, and unsure where to start
Or just want to understand why they climb the way they do
If you’ve tried following plans, chasing grades, or “just climbing more”… but still feel frustrated, this course will help you create clarity around what actually matters.
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This course isn’t a training program. Instead of telling you exactly what to do each session, it gives you a framework to evaluate your performance so you know what deserves your attention and when, across different seasons and goals.
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Better performance comes from focusing on the right things at the right time. This course helps you stop guessing, stop reacting emotionally to grades, and start training & practicing with intention.
This leads to more effective sessions, better confidence, and more sustainable progress.