Train your mental game.

Three clinics. One weekend. Taught by a certified Warrior’s Way trainer Sevve Stember.

Fear of falling holds back more climbers than finger strength ever will. These clinics give you a repeatable method for taking real risk with less fear, whether you’re clipping bolts, coaching a team, or competing.

Why This Matters

Most climbers hesitate, over grip, and back off well below their physical limit. Coaches see it happen and often don’t have language for what to do about it.

The Warrior’s Way gives both sides the same framework. Climbers learn to break a route into risk decisions they can actually make, then commit to them. Coaches learn to teach that process, so the work continues long after the clinic ends.

Climbers leave with:

• A method for falling safely and willingly
• Clear yes fall and no fall zones
• Better resting and breathing under stress
• Real commitment on limit climbs

Coaches leave with:

• Drills and progressions you can run with your athletes
• Language for coaching fear without dismissing it
• A repeatable system, not a one time workshop

Coaches Training

Two days | 8 hours each | Coaches and climbing professionals

For coaches who work with competitive youth. Learn to teach the falling progressions, resting, and risk assessment framework, then practice coaching it live in isolation style scenarios.

Plan to climb, plan to coach, and plan to be on your feet.

Dates: Thursday, September 17 & 18
Price: $700

Youth Team Mental Training

Competitive youth athletes | 5.5 hours 

Falling & Commitment

Adults | 5 hours 

The flagship course. Falling drills, movement, and resting exercises applied to routes at your limit. Small progressions built around each climber, so you’re pushed but never thrown in.

You will learn: How to fall, how to give a soft catch, how to assess risk, how to rest, and how to commit.

Includes: Exercises PDF, laminated risk assessment card, ongoing email lessons.

Prerequisite: Legit lead certified at 5.Life. Comfortable leading 5.9 without hanging. Six months of consistent climbing.

Date: Sunday, September 20 | 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Price: $250 members | $325 non-member

Your Trainer | Sevve Stember

Certified Warrior’s Way Trainer 

Sevve is a mountain athlete born and raised in northern Minnesota. He grew up nordic skiing with his father in subzero temperatures, hiking in the Canadian Rockies, and climbing the oak trees in his own backyard.

He learned to climb on the sea cliffs of Lake Superior in 2004, and the vertical world has been central to his life ever since. Sport, trad, bouldering, alpine, speed. He finds something to love in all of it. These days his energy goes toward massive alpine linkups that pair cardiovascular endurance with technical rock, and toward climbing sport and trad at his limit.

That range is what makes him effective in a clinic. He has taken the falls, worked through the hesitation, and built the mental systems he teaches on real terrain over two decades. He teaches Warrior’s Way clinics across the country for climbing gyms, guide services, and youth teams.

Sevve is an AMGA Single Pitch Instructor, AIARE Avalanche Level 1, and Wilderness First Aid certified.

When he is not in the wilderness, he is working on home projects, spending time with his men’s group, and building his photography skills. Colorado’s Front Range is home.

Full bio at warriorsway.com

What to Bring

Required gear

• Climbing shoes
• Harness
• Belay device and locking carabiner
• Chalk bag

Bring with you

• Water bottle. You will be on the wall for hours.
• Notebook and pen. There is real material here worth writing down.
• Lunch. See the note below.
• Athletic clothes you can move and fall in. Hair tied back if long.
• Any tape, brace, or support you normally climb with.

About lunch

Bring something simple that does not need a microwave or a fridge. Breaks are short and built around the flow of the clinic, not the clock. You will often be eating during a debrief or between drills.

Falling & Commitment and Youth Team clinics: Plan on a short pause of 15 to 30 minutes. No formal lunch break.

Coaches Training: You get a full hour each day. You are welcome to leave the building.

Before you arrive

1. Sign your waiver online in advance. Waiver link
2. Arrive 20 minutes early to check in, gear up, and settle.
3. Confirm your proficencies. Lead is required for Falling & Commitment. Get proficent before clinic day, not the morning of.

Questions?

Contact us. If you have an injury, a recent bad fall, or anything else we should know about, tell us ahead of time. It helps Sevve build the right progression for you.