INTERESTED IN HAVING THE SRPI CREATE A CUSTOM EXPERIENCE JUST FOR YOU?
The SRPI Staff and Director specialize in everything from energy system training to technical training to building strength and power to psychological performance. Choose your own focus or let us help identify your priorities. Just complete the Private Instruction Request form at the bottom of this page and the Director of the Sportrock Performance Institute will be in contact with you to begin planning your first session.
*Please note that ALL Private Lesson Packages must be used within 4 months of purchase.
Did you know we also offer Performance Assessments? Combining a Performance Assessment with a Private Lesson plan will create the ultimate experience to target your strengths and weaknesses to improve your overall climbing skillset and fitness! Check out the three types of assessments we have to offer.
The Director of the SRPI and the Performance Fellows
TAYLOR REED
DIRECTOR OF THE SRPI
Taylor Reed, Director of the Sportrock Performance Institute, is an integral part of the SRPI project. He integrates evidence-based performance practices to enhance the climbing potential for our Youth Team as well as our members. The SRPI is a teaching and learning institute. Understanding individual climber’s needs are at the core of SRPI’s state-of-the-art assessment center and its video analysis room. The SRPI will house a variety of measurement tests and evaluation tools. Whether it’s biomechanics, cognitive-motor learning, or sports psychology, the SRPI offers the capability to assess-in-detail to be able to promote an individualized path to performance. As the science and practical applications of climbing continue to evolve, the SRPI will update methods for our climbers in training.
He oversees Sportrock’s Youth Team; working closely with coaches and climbers to organize our coaching content and to integrate evidence-based performance practices.
ADAM CAMACHO
CHRIS OSHINSKI
JACK RODENAS
SOPHIE DALMASCHI
XANDER WONG
TAYLOR REED
DIRECTOR OF THE SPORTROCK PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE
Taylor is a climbing coach with 15 years of coaching experience. He has consulted with multiple national champions, world cup athletes, and national federations on a diverse range of topics. He also serves on advisory boards for two international climbing companies and has spoken both nationally and internationally. Taylor also directs the Beta Angel Project, a website dedicated to bridging the science of climbing with practice. He has over 25 projects and collaborations with researchers and climbers in over a dozen countries.
ADAM CAMACHO
Performance Fellow
I have been coaching for the Youth Teams at Sportrock for about 8 years now. I started coaching on the Recreational team and Advanced team soon after that, I became the Head Coach of the Advanced team for about 3 years. I have since been helping with our Competition teams and doing private lessons going over anything from the basics to more advanced techniques. I have been working as a manager of Sportrock for about 6 years now and have worked as an Evolv Shoes representative for 2 years.
CHRIS OSHINSKI
Performance Fellow
Ultimately, I think my approach to coaching is to empower youth athletes and eventually make myself obsolete. Assuming the role of a 'guide', of sorts--commiserating with the athletes, providing them with a sounding board or challenging them to reassess their approach, perspective or inner-dialogue--contributes to an autonomous individual capable of climbing for a lifetime and numerous other actualizations throughout their lives. More pedantically, I like to focus on the subtleties and nuance of climbing movement and technique and helping athletes to expand their comfort zones; we all tend to favor some movements over others, and there is nothing wrong with that. Our exploration of possibilities and potentialities, however, is an expansive and rewarding project.
JACK RODENAS
Performance Fellow
While I am relatively new to the climbing world, my love for sports has been with me all of my life. As a coach on the S2 team, I lead with a philosophy based around enthusiasm and support. I encourage my youth climbers to practice out of the box thinking, and develop a sense of intrinsic motivation through fun yet purposeful games and drills. One of my favorite aspects of coaching is helping an athlete achieve something they had not previously realized they were capable of. Outside of climbing and coaching at Sportrock, I enjoy hiking, lifting weights, and computer games.
SOPHIE DALMASCHI
Performance Fellow
Recently coming from the youth competitive field myself, I have been climbing for 5 years and coaching on Sportrock's S3 team for 1 year. I am a freshly NASM certified personal trainer, fueled by a love for fitness and kinesiology. My main passion (besides crimps) is translating concepts of sports science to climbing, which I plan to further explore at the SRPI. By working closely with our climbing-specific coaches, I implement strength training programs that target identified weaknesses in climbers; Sometimes this involves helping a climber stick the difficult crux move on their project by guiding them through directly applicable exercises that prime the relevant muscles and motions. Other times, this includes developing programs centered around building stability to decrease the risk of injury, training general aerobic capacity, and/or addressing movement compensations through strength and mobility work. When I'm not climbing, training, or learning, I enjoy singing and recording music.
XANDER WONG
Performance Fellow
I began climbing eight years ago at Sportrock Alexandria, picking up bits of wisdom and skills from the community around me, and I am thrilled to be able to share my knowledge with the community now. As a climber, I've found success in exploring all of my options on a wall, and that's what I hope to help other climbers achieve. My goal is to equip a climber with a wide range of tools and techniques, as well as well-rounded knowledge of what each is capable of and how best to use them. Through exploration and analysis of movement on the wall, I aim to deepen a climber's understanding of how their body relates to the wall, and what they can do to influence that.