{"id":6458,"date":"2022-10-03T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2022-10-03T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:02:21","slug":"climbs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/climbs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Snowdonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climbing Snowdonia.<br \/>\nLike many people, I&#8217;ve been chasing the clock for years, decades even. The numbers tells it how it is, there are no excuses. And yet, there is a gap in the tangibility somehow. One run you are 15 secs up, the next 15 down. It ebbs and flows, without a distinct conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s why I like &#8216;make-the-move&#8217; sessions. It&#8217;s black and white &#8211; you either make the move, or you don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nEnd of, fatboy.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8216;Climbs&#8217; is a good one.<br \/>\nYou start in the eddy and finish on the cushion, above the rapid.<br \/>\nYou choose where and when, and&#8230;<br \/>\nYou either make it &#8211; or you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And if you don&#8217;t, you slide in mild disgrace down the channel, knowing exactly where \ud835\udc66\ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc62 went wrong.<br \/>\nSo you can get it right next time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B3dNcppPFoM\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In The Swellies, Snowdonia Rapid lends itself nicely to this session. The climb is possible, but not always easy. As the flow changes, so obviously does the difficulty of the climb.<\/p>\n<p>For a little added extra:<br \/>\nStart when the tidal flow is increasing and every climb gets harder as the session progresses. See how long you can go before you blow out:)<br \/>\nEach climb is short so it tends towards an ATP session. However, I usually work on the &#8216;minimum-effort-to-do-the-move&#8217; principle for PSK moving water work. Here each climb is as much (or more) about technique, rather than just ATP 101% splash &amp; thrash.<\/p>\n<p>Each move can be broken down into:<br \/>\nPosition<br \/>\nAngle<br \/>\nTiming<br \/>\nPower<br \/>\nSpeed<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not always about the clock.<\/p>\n<p>(As a session this is also one that can be a shorter add-on to a session as a finish or an extended warm-up. The runs here were &#8216;bolted on&#8217; to a surf on Swelly Rock.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2gxqflZwcQ\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climbing Snowdonia. Like many people, I&#8217;ve been chasing the clock for years, decades even. The numbers tells it how it is, there are no excuses. And yet, there is a gap in the tangibility somehow. One run you are 15 secs up, the next 15 down. It ebbs and flows, without a distinct conclusion. But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/climbs-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climbing Snowdonia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[63,117,73,39,35,62,80,67,38,40,36,65,101,81],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-training","tag-john-willacy","tag-menai-strait","tag-performance","tag-performance-sea-kayak","tag-rockpool","tag-rockpool-kayaks","tag-rockpool-taran","tag-sea-kayak","tag-surf","tag-swellies","tag-taran","tag-taran-16","tag-training","tag-wing-paddles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}