Best Charlie Boscoe Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 21: Ross Fulkerson - Mindset and Meditation Masterclass 2:18:52

11d ago2:18:52

2:18:52

Ross is a boulder and lead climber on Team USA and you may be familiar with his Youtube channel where he documents his climbing adventures and shares coaching tips. In this episode, we'll learn about his bikepacking adventure that he skipped the first half of the 2024 world cup season for, hear about his struggle trying to balance competitions with…

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Ep 20: Erin McNeice - Finding Sudden Success on the Senior Circuit 1:06:55

2M ago1:06:55

1:06:55

Erin is a boulder and lead climber from team GB who has been having a stellar 2024 season so far, making finals for boulder in Keqiao, lead in Wujiang, and getting bronze in Shanghai OQS! In this episode, we’ll get some insight into how she seemed to rise out of nowhere, her brutal off-season training, we’ll learn a bit about team GB, and stay for …

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Ep 19: Eddie Fowke - Tales from years on the IFSC circuit 2:46:52

2M ago2:46:52

2:46:52

Eddie is an ex-IFSC photographer, who worked with them from 2014-2020. In this episode, we’ll get his thoughts on the ethics and purpose of photojournalism, hear about the chaos behind the scenes traveling around for world cups, and discuss ideas on how to get athletes better paid. Guest links: Instagram Reference links: Vail triangle pose Mia Kram…

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Ep 18: Chloé Caulier - Belgian Bouldering and being a Muscular Climber! 1:10:23

3M ago1:10:23

1:10:23

Chloé is a boulder and lead climber competing in the world cup circuit for the Belgian team! This is my first time talking to a Belgian climber, so in this episode we’ll learn a lot about their fairly newly established national team and how funding works, and we also talk about body image with being a more muscular climber, as well as the difficult…

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Ep 17: Charlie Boscoe - Leaving IFSC Commentary 1:32:35

3M ago1:32:35

1:32:35

Charlie is a broadcaster and writer who preceded Matt Groom as an IFSC commentator and EpicTV host. In this episode, we’ll learn about his rough start to IFSC commentating in 2016, ways that he thinks the IFSC could improve competitions, and get some insight into what it’s like traveling around with athletes. He also shares his unique story about t…

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Ep 16: Cloe Coscoy - Gym Climbing Rocks! 1:25:51

4M ago1:25:51

1:25:51

Cloe is a French/American boulderer who has competed for team USA in the international youth and elite circuit. In this episode, we’ll learn about how she “accidentally” ended up competing in lead world cups, the difficulties of trying to make it onto a highly competitive US national team, and we give some love to good old gym climbing and plastic …

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Ep 15: Tyler Norton - Commiserating on Climbing Podcasting 1:30:21

4M ago1:30:21

1:30:21

Tyler is a fellow competition climbing nerd and podcaster, who has been involved in the space much longer than I have, and you may be familiar with his channel, Plastic Weekly! In this episode, we’ll talk about what it’s like MCing at a world cup, commiserate on the hardships that come with climbing podcasting, go over some climbing HOT TAKES, and …

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Ep 14: Cody Grodzki - Reading Routesetter Hate Comments 2:53:47

5M ago2:53:47

2:53:47

Cody is the USA national chief routesetter, and in the 2023 IFSC season he had the opportunity to set boulders in Hachioji, Prague, Innsbruck, and the Bern world champs! In this episode, we’ll watch him read Youtube hate comments, and we’ll learn about the differences between IFSC vs USA vs commercial routesetting, as well as hear about a crazy coo…

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Ep 13: Carlie LeBreton - Paraclimbing World Champs Setting 1:03:23

5M ago1:03:23

1:03:23

Carlie is the FIRST female chief setter at an IFSC world championship, where she led a team of 5 to set the world paraclimbing championships in Bern 2023! She has been climbing for over 20 years and setting for almost just as long, so she has a lot of experience. In this episode, we’ll learn about all the things you have to keep in mind when settin…

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Ep 12: Anita Aggarwal + Christiane Luttikhuizen - World Cup Paraclimbing 1:57:12

6M ago1:57:12

1:57:12

Anita Aggarwal and Christiane Luttikhuizen are paraclimbers who have competed in world cups as part of the RP3 sports class. RP3 is a classification for limited reach, power or stability. In this episode, we’ll learn about what it’s like climbing with a disability, the difficulties dealing with classification and class merging, whether or not the I…

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Ep 11: Staša Gejo - A look into isolation 1:49:46

6M ago1:49:46

1:49:46

Stasa is a boulder and lead climber (specializing in boulder) from Serbia who has been competing in international cups since 2011 as a youth climber. Most recently, she took the silver medal in the Laval European Qualifiers. In this episode, we’ll learn about Serbian funding in the sport and OQS, we’ll get a glimpse into what bouldering isolation i…

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Ep 10: Sam Watson - USA's Future Speed Olympian 1:20:13

8M ago1:20:13

1:20:13

Sam is only 17 years old, yet he has already won gold at a world cup, holds the speed climbing record in the US, and recently secured his Paris 2024 Olympic ticket at the PanAm Qualifiers. In this episode, we’ll get more insight into speed climbing at the highest level, his experience at the PanAm Games, how he juggles personal life, school, and cl…

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Ep 9: Campbell Harrison - Australian Boulder + Lead Olympic Dreams 1:30:31

8M ago1:30:31

1:30:31

Thanks for tuning into the podcast! Campbell represents team Australia and is one of the Oceania region’s top competitors for moving onto the Olympics in the boulder and lead combined category. He also recently got elected to the IFSC athlete’s commission, so in this episode we’ll talk about causes he’d like to champion through that, what it’s like…

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Ep 8: Matt Groom - World Cup Commentary Behind the Scenes 1:39:19

9M ago1:39:19

1:39:19

Thanks for tuning into the podcast! Matt Groom is a freelance commentator best known for being the lead commentator at IFSC world cups. You may also find him hosting EpicTV Climbing Daily, writing for UKC, or commentating at other climbing competitions. There's a lot of talk online about Matt, and in this EXCLUSIVE interview we go over his response…

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Ep 7: Zoe Spriggins - Organizing Climbing World Cups 1:30:55

9M ago1:30:55

1:30:55

Thanks for tuning into the podcast! Zoe is a program manager for GB Climbing and is an expert in organizing and running climbing competitions! Her FIRST world cup event was Edinburgh 2022 and it was definitely…eventful. She also has experience organizing paraclimbing competitions and Bern world champs. There’s much more going on behind the scenes o…

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Ep 6: Allegra Maguire - The Psychology Behind Climbing Competitions 1:26:00

9M ago1:26:00

1:26:00

Thanks for tuning into the podcast! Allegra is a Youtuber, mental climbing coach, and co-founder of ClimbInFlow, which provides services for climbing mind training. She has experience coaching all types of climbers, from beginners to world cup youth athletes. She recently came home from coaching at the youth world champs in Korea, where she helped …

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Ep 5: Albert Ok - Finding Meaning in Coaching Speed Climbing 1:29:58

10M ago1:29:58

1:29:58

Thanks for tuning into the podcast! You may be familiar with Albert's old viral Youtube videos where he does deep-dive analyses into great comp climbing beta-break moments. Nowadays, he is spending more time working on his own training to hopefully make the USA national team, as well as working as a speed climbing coach (you're probably familiar wi…

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Ep 4: Grace Crowley - Pro Speed Climbing as a Non-Binary Athlete 1:03:23

10M ago1:03:23

1:03:23

Thanks for tuning into the podcast! Grace is a speed climber on the Australian team who only started climbing in late 2015 and has been competing in world cups since 2019 at the age of 15 (only 4 years of climbing before becoming world level?!?!). Grace is also open about sharing their experience being a non-binary athlete within competitive sports…

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Ep 3: Jonathan Sin - Trying to Become a World Cup Climber 1:05:37

11M ago1:05:37

1:05:37

You may have seen a couple of Jonathan's viral Youtube videos lately, such as I trained like a pro climber for 6 months, where he opens up about his dream of becoming a professional competition climber and documents his journey of trying to make the Hong Kong national team. His effort is all the more impressive once you find out he only started cli…

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Ep 2: Maya Witters - Former world cup judge on IFSC Controversies 1:24:05

11M ago1:24:05

1:24:05

Maya is an outspoken IFSC volunteer + judge currently living in Japan who has helped out with world cups in Edinburgh, Morioka, and Hachioji. She has some great behind-the-scenes context into world cups, what team Japan is like behind the wall, and she has some spicy takes on the IFSC organization (even got blocked once by their social media)… Gues…

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Ep 1: Niklas Wiechmann - What is REAL climbing? Setting for world cup level climbers 1:21:03

12M ago1:21:03

1:21:03

Thanks for tuning into the inaugural episode of the podcast! Niki is a routesetter with over 20 years of experience, setting for both commercial gyms and competitions. He’s known for setting “parkour-style” boulders that require creative movement rather than raw power. We’ll hear from him about what it’s like setting for world cup level climbers, h…

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Ep 0: Jinni, Podcast Gumby 0:59

1y ago0:59

0:59

A brief description of what to expect from the That's Not Real Climbing Podcast

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Ben Ryan - Always Striving to Learn 55:39

3y ago55:39

55:39

Ben is a quite extraordinary character with an amazing story, which seems to have been made possible by his determination and no-nonsense desire to succeed in his chosen profession. By his early 40s, he’d already gone from PE teacher to head coach of England Rugby 7s, resigned from that job and was hunting for a new challenge. He found one in Fiji,…

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Seth Pepper 2 - Returning to Self 56:39

4y ago56:39

56:39

A 2 time National Champion swimmer turned elite mental performance coach, Seth Pepper has seen top level sport from every angle. His insight - hard-won from decades of experience - is fascinating and will of benefit to any athlete at any level. Even for those of us who watch on from the sidelines, he's got some superb advice.…

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Seth Pepper Part 1 : Choose to Succeed 56:01

4y ago56:01

56:01

A 2 time National Champion swimmer turned elite mental performance coach, Seth Pepper has seen top level sport from every angle. His insight - hard-won from decades of experience - is fascinating and will of benefit to any athlete at any level. Even for those of us who watch on from the sidelines, he's got some superb advice.…

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Sean Shelton - For the Love of the Game 57:21

4+ y ago57:21

57:21

Sean Shelton is that rarest of things - a professional American Football player who plies his trade in Europe. The story of how he got from Tampa Bay, Florida to the Swarco Raiders in Innsbruck, Austria via Kansas, Paris and Helsinki, is fascinating, and his in depth analysis of his position on the field - quarterback - is staggering. If you don’t …

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Madeleine Eppensteiner - The Power of the Mind 47:52

5y ago47:52

47:52

Joining me this week I’ve got an athlete turned psychologist who’s creative and fun approach to her craft is both fascinating, and clearly effective. Madeleine Eppensteiner competed successfully in climbing competitions but after completing a degree in psychology she decided to combine her 2 passions, and started climbingpsychology.com…

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Axel Merckx - A Lifelong Passion 46:57

5y ago46:57

46:57

Axel Merckx was a professional cyclist who competed in 8 Tour de France and won Olympic bronze, a Giro d’Italia stage and the Belgian National Road Racing Championship. Now he’s mentoring young cyclists and steering them towards careers as successful as his.

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Steve Black - Bespoke Improvement 55:36

5y ago55:36

55:36

To call Steve Black - almost universally known as Blackie - a coach is barely to do him justice. He’s a manager, a motivator, a change maker, and so much more. This is a no nonsense analysis of sporting and business success from a man who has walked the walk for over 3 decades. Enjoy.By Charlie Boscoe

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Jordi Cruyff - Always Looking Forward 50:56

5y ago50:56

50:56

I’m Charlie Boscoe and today I’m chatting to Jordi Cruyff - a man who’s experienced the highest highs and the toughest lows that professional sport has to offer. He played for Manchester United and Barcelona, was forced to retire due to injury and then came back a couple of years later just to prove he could. He’s been a sporting director in Malta …

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Steve House & Scott Johnston - Uphill Athletes 1:06:19

5y ago1:06:19

1:06:19

Steve House is one of the World’s best alpine climbers, with an extraordinary mountaineering resumé and Scott Johnston has a long and diverse athletic background, having excelled in climbing, swimming and nordic skiing, amongst others. Together they’ve teamed up to create a company called Uphill Athlete, and have also written 2 training manuals for…

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Jamie Acton - The Battle Within 57:50

5+ y ago57:50

57:50

As a rule, active athletes don’t open up about how they feel and sport, and the care of professional sportspeople, is poorer as a result. Jamie’s searing honesty and openness should be an example to anyone of what courage really looks like. Forget the physical battle or rugby, saying that you’re not OK is sometimes the toughest challenge of all.…

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Bill Beswick - The Mindset to Maximise Potential 53:31

5+ y ago53:31

53:31

Bill Beswick is a sports psychologist who is famous for his work with the England football team, the England men's and women’s rugby teams, Manchester United and countless other sporting organisations on both sides of the Atlantic. He’s also, as he describes it, a man in shadows, quietly helping individual athletes and coaches with their psychology…

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Ben Hunt-Davis - Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? 47:23

5+ y ago47:23

47:23

After 2 failed attempts at Olympic success, Ben Hunt-Davis and his teammates in the British 8-man rowing crew decided that, ahead of the Sydney Olympics, everything they did would be based on one question - Will it make the boat go faster? Come Sydney the boat did indeed go faster, and how. This is an amazing story of determination and a sheer refu…

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Shuan Fatah - Never Get Outworked 59:58

5+ y ago59:58

59:58

As supremo of the SWARCO Raiders, Shuan Fatah is one of Europe's most successful American Football coaches. He started out in a (then) divided Berlin, and has since gone on to have huge success as a player and a coach of the game he loves. The lessons he's learned along the way have been many, and he's brilliant at talking about them. Prepare to be…

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Janja Garnbret - Humble Domination 49:30

5+ y ago49:30

49:30

Aged just 19, Janja Garnbret is already one of the most dominant athletes in the World. She's got a far better winning percentage than Serena Williams, Tiger Woods or Michael Schumacher, and she's only just getting started. Perhaps even more impressive than her results is her attitude - she's humble, motivated and keen to improve; traits she's goin…

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Patrick McKeown - Oxygen Advantage 47:41

5+ y ago47:41

47:41

Regardless of where and how you live, you need to breathe, so why not investigate how to do it better? That's exactly what Patrick McKeown has done, and the result is the Oxygen Advantage method. This is mind blowing stuff, so sit back, take a shallow breath (not a deep one, as you'll learn today) and get ready to change all of your preconceptions …

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Klaus Isele - Learning to Improve 42:30

6y ago42:30

42:30

Klaus Isele is a busy man - he runs his own physio practice, is the team physio for the Austrian Climbing team, is creating a whole new method of treating finger injuries, looks after the World's best climber, and has a family. He's pretty funny too. Sit back and enjoy some great stories, insight and inspiration.…

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Jay Collins - Just Do It 43:46

6y ago43:46

43:46

Gym owner, athlete and family man Jay Collins quit his safe and secure job in his early 40's in order to open up his own gym. It was a big risk but it has paid off handsomely; he's got 300 loyal customers and a community constructed off the back of his total commitment. If you want a lesson in how sheer hard work and determination can pay off, here…

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Tom Grant - The Road to Recovery 22:28

6y ago22:28

22:28

Back in Episode 2 of the podcast we chatted to skier, mountain guide and climber Tom Grant. At that time he was on a high having just made the first ski descent of the Caroline Face on Mount Cook in New Zealand. However, a few weeks after we spoke to him he tore his anterior cruciate ligament, putting him on the sidelines long term. We wanted to kn…

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Erik Weihenmayer - No Barriers 49:03

6y ago49:03

49:03

Erik Weihenmayer lost his sight aged 14 but has since climbed Mount Everest (and the highest peak on every other continent as well), kayaked the Grand Canyon, and helped thousands and thousands of people overcome their own barriers. Prepare to be inspired...

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Damian Hughes Part 2 - The Culture of Winning 50:20

6y ago50:20

50:20

Sports psychologist, author and speaker Damian Hughes has just finished his latest book - The Barcelona Way; Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture - and we were keen to get him back for his second appearance on the podcast to discuss it. We cover building culture, getting buy-in, the effects of social media, coping with people who don’t fit into a…

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Brista Mayfield - Getting It Done 43:00

6y ago43:00

43:00

Brista Mayfield is a Crossfit athlete training 4 - 5 hours per day, a wife and a mother. In other words, she’s pretty busy, but she doesn’t let that stopping her do what she needs to. That dedication and discipline recently paid off in a big way when, for the first time, she qualified for the Crossfit Games - the pinnacle of her sport.…

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Jim Pope - Climbing's New Generation 44:52

6y ago44:52

44:52

Sport Climbing is an activity you may not be aware of but you soon will be - in Tokyo 2020 it will make its debut as an Olympic sport. Jim Pope is one of Britain's rising climbing stars and one of the sport's most thoughtful characters.By Charlie Boscoe

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Tony Smith Part 2 - The Benefit of Experience 46:07

6y ago46:07

46:07

After 30 years playing and coaching in professional sport, there isn't much Tony Smith hasn't seen. He's now putting that experience to good use by helping football managers deal with the stresses and pressures with which he's familiar.By Charlie Boscoe

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Peter Fox - Single Minded Determination 51:42

6y ago51:42

51:42

Not many people, especially those who've had highs and lows like Peter Fox has, can say that they've never lost heart, never doubted that they would make it and never given up. He might not have been the most talented player but he out-worked everyone until he got what he wanted.By Charlie Boscoe

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Nouria Newman - A Full Cup 28:26

6y ago28:26

28:26

White water kayaker Nouria Newman is a successful athlete who has retired from slalom kayaking and committed to an unmapped future. She's still learning and striving to improve, but where it will take her is still undecided.

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Carl Fogarty - Desperate to win 39:42

6y ago39:42

39:42

Carl Fogarty is the greatest superbike rider of all time. He won 4 World Championships, 59 superbike races, and also won the legendary Isle of Man TT, breaking the lap record in the process. A horrific crash ended his career in 2000 but he’s since run his own race team, won Britain’s most popular TV show and written 2 books. Today we’re chatting to…

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Derek Warwick - Total Commitment 47:56

6y ago47:56

47:56

Derek Warwick is a motorsport legend. He raced for 11 seasons in Formula One, won the Le Mans 24 hour, and fell foul of the legendary Ayrton Senna when they almost became teammates in 1986. In addition, Derek is a successful businessman, a driver steward at Formula One races and a prominent member of the British Racing Drivers Club and the Motor Sp…

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Karen Darke - If You Fall 40:35

6y ago40:35

40:35

Karen Darke MBE is a Paralympic champion, adventurer and speaker. She was keen runner, climber and orienteer in her early life but aged 21 she had a rock climbing accident and was paralysed from the chest down. Since then she’s hand cycled across Patagonia and the Himalayas, sea kayaked in Canada, skied across Greenland, climbed the 1000 metre high…

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