Our Approach
Climbing is a practice with endless opportunities for self discovery. Good Stone exists to help climbers experience more of their true potential by cultivating strength, skill, and awareness.
This is a practice. And a good one at that.
If you’re climbing with any consistency at all, you’re already practicing. You’ve already discovered the simple joy of moving on the wall. You’ve also likely encountered challenges that require adaptation. Cultivating a practice oriented mindset is the key to unlocking your true potential.
We believe a climbing practice should be:
Personal. Everyone comes to climbing from a different place and pursues the craft for different reasons. Goals are as diverse as bodies. Why do you climb? Your reason should drive your time climbing, training, and dreaming.
Growth Focused. Success is sweet. Growth is nourishing. Of course, it feels good to top out and send routes, but facing and learning from the challenges faced along the way is the real opportunity to feed ourselves.
Fun. We all have good days and bad days, but our experience on the whole should create positive energy in the rest of our lives. If it’s not creating more joy, then what’s the point?
If you’re interested in digging deeper, getting stronger, honing your skills, and seeing what else you can find in your climbing practice, we’d love the opportunity to explore with you.
Your Coach: Micah Elconin
Micah Elconin has been cultivating his climbing practice for more than twenty years. He’s climbed all over the world including dozens of first ascents on the Central Coast of California and Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Despite entering his fourth decade in 2021, he continues to slowly, yet steadily, improve.
As a coach, Micah draws on a variety of experiences to help climbers develop their practice. He is well versed in climbing specific training modalities and has earned two Performance Climbing Coach Certificates. Micah is also a member of the Climb Strong Coaching team where he works alongside some of the best coaches in the world.
Micah spent the first half of his twenties deeply committed to Ashtanga yoga practicing under the guidance of Steve Dwelley and Michele Nichols. He also spent 3 months at Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India.
As a former professional chef, Micah has extensive culinary experience and holds Nutrition Educator and Natural Chef’s certificates from Bauman College. He’s also earned an MBA in Entrepreneurship from University of Oregon and a BA in Philosophy from University of California at Santa Barbara.
Are you ready to expand your experience and explore mastery of a practice that you love?