Magnus Midtbø & Till Gross: Learning from the Best Climbers

Dec 14, 2023

Elite climber Magnus Midtbø and business partner Till Gross discuss building an online coaching platform with top climbers. They share insights on improving climbing skills, unique coaching methods, and the importance of learning from the best in the sport. The conversation also touches on overcoming fears in climbing, developing specialized courses, and the future vision of their platform.

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ADVICE

Pair Athletes With Their Coaches

Pair elite climbers with their long-time coaches when possible to combine lived experience with proven coaching methods.
That pairing produces clearer, technical courses with start-to-finish progression.

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Let Passion Drive Course Content

Let instructors teach topics they are passionate about to keep material authentic and engaging.
Use structured modules and pacing that differ from fast, click-driven YouTube formats for deeper learning.

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Prefer Good Online Guidance Over Bad In-Person Help

If you can't access a good in-person coach, choose a high-quality online course rather than no guidance or poor coaching.
Remember: imperfect but informed instruction can beat no instruction or bad training.

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Elite climber Magnus Midtbø returns to The Struggle with his business partner, Till Gross, to share their perspective on how climbers can improve at the sport by accessing A-list coaches and other climbing resources online.

Magnus and Till are developing a pretty ambitious and impressive online coaching platform that includes some of the biggest names in the sport including Adam Ondra, Alex Megos, Hazel Findlay, Dave MacLeod, and Daniel Woods just to name a few. And in developing these courses, Magnus and Till are learning how us climbers can best absorb new information and apply it to our training and climbing… something that can help us all to level up, whether we work with a coach in person, scrape YouTube for the latest training advice, or enroll in Adam Ondra’s course that he’s building with Magnus and Till. We also touch on other topics, including the one thing Magnus learned when he was a newer climber that totally changed the game for him, what Magnus’s big climbing goal is these days, and the YouTube video idea that ended up being just too sketchy for Magnus to go through with. Hint… it involves cheese.

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