Inner Fire Climbing Podcast
Thinking deeply about climbing. A podcast with climber and coach Jesse Firestone.
Episodes
Questions:
0:00:00 Intro 0:00:56 Nico - Solo bouldering 0:05:25 Simon Pearson - What to do while watching climbing media 0:11:00 Jantina - Should people of different sexes or sizes be coached differently? 0:24:38 Briana - Free will and, also, donuts 0:28:02 Daniel - Feeling lost in limit bouldering sessions 0:33:28 Jeffrey - Programming low gear 0:35:24 Angel Gonzalez - Caffeine for early morning sessions 0:38:02 Sam - When is a p...
Tom Herbert is a nutrition coach and all around swell Brit. He joined me on the pod to talk about dance, flow, and climbing, and we took many (unsurprisingly) philosophical side quests.
Questions from my Patrons and clients for April 2025. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jfireclimbing Questions:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:01 Daniel - Skills I’m working on
00:03:17 Daniel - What am I excited about this year?
00:05:17 Daniel - How long to rest for different kinds of boulders
00:08:02 Jake, Briana & others - Kingslayer takeaways, maintaining motivation
00:14:32 More Kingslayer takeaw...
Ethan Salvo is a Squamish-based climber. He's been climbing just over 7 years and has climbed some of the hardest boulders in North America. Last summer he broke out of his boulderer shell and climbed the Cobra Crack, a notorious 5.14 gear climb.
I had the chance to write some t...
In this episode I chat with Juliet Hammer and her dog Addy. Juliet is a climbing coach and an experienced boulderer and sport climber. She has a degree in biology and she's a certified strength and conditioning specialist. We talked about:
- Juliet's climbing history
- Differences between bouldering and sport in terms of preparation, mindset and tactics
- Being a short climber
- Board climbing
- Coaching philosophy and shop talk
- Persona...
Questions from my Patrons and clients for April 2025. Thanks to Ryan Frecka for joining me for the weight management questions. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jfireclimbing Questions: 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:45 Jishnu - What is good footwork? 00:09:35 Jishnu - Modern classics 00:11:01 Nico & Giancarlo - Returning to a project after a tweak/injury 00:16:28 Briana - Managing detraining on a long trip 00:...
In this solo episode, I do my best to explain the rules of bouldering: what some of them are, why they're arbitrary, how they're changing over time, and how we should all proceed.
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jfireclimbing
I sit down with Ethan Pringle to catch up with him and his cat Snowflake. We talk about:
- Balancing stability and freedom
- Crag development in South Africa (AKA how to pivot when things don’t go your way)
- Not training
- Much discussion of highball strategy
- Risk perception, risk tolerance and age
- Jumbo Love, Realization, and self-doubt
- Advice for his younger self
Questions from my Patrons and clients for March 2025. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jfireclimbing Questions: 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:37 Mackenzie - How's the podcast going? 0:01:30 Luke - Sling Blade update??? (with three question marks) 0:04:15 Jeffrey - Soft pause and gaze 0:11:32 Lu - Board climbing session duration 0:18:20 Ryan - Minimal methods for improving on slopers & pinches 0:29:46 eejayen -...
In this episode, my guest Zoe Sayetta & I discuss:
- Differences in mental strategies for outdoor & competition climbing
- Execution pressure
- Awareness & mindfulness
- Visualization / motor imagery
- Optimal zone of performance
- Focusing on the right thing at the right time
- Basic mindset advice
Questions from my Patrons and clients for February 2025.
Support the show on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jfireclimbing
Questions:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:31 Kerwin: Concept/idea where I've shifted since coaching
00:04:50 Kerwin: Non-climbing book that's impacted my coaching
00:11:34 Olga: How to get more good tries on your project
00:15:59 Jack: Maximum recoverable volume
00:20:41 Luke: How language impacts performance and saf...
Welcome to the Inner Fire Climbing podcast! I'm Jesse Firestone. In this episode I take a minute to explain who I am and why I started this pod.
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