Comments on: TRAINING

By: Scott Rice

Scott Rice — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:25:48 +0000

Mr. Trotter,

Just wanted to say that your mentality, philosophy, and all around attitude toward our beloved lifestyle has been a true inspiration for me. In particular, an article you did for a “Climbing” magazine a few months back about a lesson learned from Mr. Sharma hit home pretty closely.

Thank you for your unfaultering dedication to that feeling, that embodiment, that makes you keep doing what you do. Keep sending.

Thanks again.

By: Michael Moore

Michael Moore — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:01:20 +0000

Mr. Trotter,

Yo, I would like to inform you that you are doing an excellent job at maintaining “Baller Status.” Your stuff on this site is palm-sweaty. Crush it. Stick it. And Send yo f*ckin ProJect. Peace.

P.S. I apologize for the expletives. I’m just psyched.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:38:06 +0000

hey sonnie awesome blog. real down to earth stuff you write about it. Cant wait to see the new site up and running

By: d

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:35:59 +0000

sonny – awesome training essay! thanks man. the paxia training vids are incredible, and the john gill bio is totally inspiring. training………so much to learn. great stuff. see you out on the road.

By: BenG.

BenG. — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:22:48 +0000

Good news, Sonnie! I’d certainly be very interested in reading about your training methods. Can’t wait.

By: Sonnie

Sonnie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:58:13 +0000

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the letters. Peter, good to hear from you, right on Tony and Dale were big influences, some how they escaped my mind during the jotting down process. I will try and revise this a bit and surely include them, perhaps they were the bridge I was missing between John Bachar and Wolfgang. Thanks for the comment.

Ben, glad you enjoy the site, I am currently revamping it and have another week or two before it’s up and running, i hope it will have many more articles and a FOCUS on training methods. If you want to see the hangboard please email me at sonniejtrotter@yahoo.ca they are finished, but I am only taking small orders for now, they will be available to everyone soon.

Parul, cheers mate. I’ll keep up the work if you keep up with the good vibes, I’m glad you found climbing, and I hope you enjoy every second of it, even the frustrating ones, that’s the good stuff anyway. Best wishes.

By: Parul

Parul — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:57:02 +0000

Hi Sonnie,

I loved ur article. It smells of ur burning passion for climbing…
Very inspiring for a beginner like me.

keep the good work on.

take care

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:19:26 +0000

Awesome!

Look forward to reading your site everyday, prolly the most interesting and well written blog out there.

Would love to read more on training. Maybe some of the new theories you guys use. Oh and when can we check out the hangboards?

By: Peter Beal

Peter Beal — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:53:08 +0000

Hi Sonnie,
This is a good article. I will link to it for my blog and discuss it in an upcoming post. By the way, I would also mention Tony Yaniro and Dale Goddard as American figures who put an emphasis on serious training for hard climbing.

A question for you; why do you think that John Gill, to take one example, who could do amazing feats of strength and self-consciously focused his efforts purely on bouldering, had a top level of roughly V9, a climbing level that is regarded as trivial today? In other words what is the role that mental training and acclimation can play?

Peter

By: kelly mcconnell

kelly mcconnell — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:32:30 +0000

I love the choice of pictures. The last one makes my jaw drop a little. Good words too!