During the 8th annual Joe’s Valley Festival, Kris sat down to talk to local legend and longtime crusher Steven Jeffery.

The more accurately we define our problems, the more approachable it will feel to find solutions.

Or any grade, for that matter. Boulder or sport.

Maybe the most understated way of getting better is to build fallback successes into your plan.

Kris and fellow Power Company coach, Taylor Fragomeni, discuss how you can make the transition from indoor to outdoor climbing easier on yourself.

How much time should climbers spend becoming more well rounded vs. improving their strengths?

Kris sits down with shaper and setter Roy Quanstrom, of Tension Climbing to talk about his latest holds and more.

As cool as assessments and standards are, they can easily leave people settling for “good enough” when they have the potential to do much more.

Eric Hörst chats about how some big life shifts – retirement, the success of his brand PhysiVantage, and becoming an empty nester – have impacted his climbing and training.

Being able to quickly recognize familiar sequences is a crucial ingredient to harder climbing.

Climber performance metrics only tell a small part of a much more complex human story.

The difficulties of a task should be such that they help the learner translate the skill to performance.

It’s far more comfortable for us to blame ignorance for our lack of progress than it is to blame our own efforts.

Kris and Nate are joined by Lauren and Caitlin of The Average Climber Podcast, to discuss some of the biggest ways climbers get in their own way.

You’re watching your client, student, partner, or bestie struggle. And you want to help. But how? It entirely depends on the goal.

We think we know exactly what climbing looks like. We’ve zeroed in on the details. And in this case, it really isn’t those details that matter.

Practice is adaptation. Performance is owning.

Once you learn the power of good tactics it can be hard to step away from them.

Of all the people that I spoke with this year who were stuck in plateaus, many of them had the same thing in common: they climbed and trained alone.

How to use data to inform training decisions had been a topic of debate amongst the Power Company coaches for years, until Data Analyst, Dale Wilson, stepped in to settle the score once and for all.