 
Name:
Joe Holmes
_______________________________
Who are you and what do you do?
Joe Holmes, Team Coach for Bremerton.
How
long have you been climbing? Since 1991.
How
long have you been on the Vertical World Climbing Team?
First year coach, worked for company since 2003.
Is
there something about climbing team that is better than anything else in the
world? I get paid to make kids better climbers.
Anything about
climbing team that is worse than anything else in the world?
Do
you enjoy working hard to climb or hardly work to climb?
Climb now, work later.
How
many times has Tyson told you to “keep the body tight”?
Now that would be an awkward silence.
What
other activities do you do? Race bikes.
Have
you sustained any injuries from climbing, besides mental ones?
Tendon injury in a finger, bruised heel.
Where
is your favorite place to climb? New River
Gorge.
Who
do you like climbing with? Anyone who is safe
and fun to be around.
What
are your hopes and dreams for this competition season?
That the kids succeed in the goals they have set for
themselves.
What
are your feelings toward competition climbing? Do you feel it is necessary to
keep you motivated to climb hard? For me,
definitely not.
When
you feel weak, what should you do? Work harder.
What
has climbing and climbing team done for your life? The positives and or the
negatives. Climbing has allowed me to meet
interesting people and see views I would never had a chance to see any other
way.
What
would you consider a successful day of climbing?
If you milked every last bit of daylight out of the day
for one last pitch.
5 years from
now_____________________________________.
10
years from now____________________________________.
If
there was one person on team you would want to leave hanging from a rope and hit
with a stick like a piñata, who would it be? What are you going to do to make
that happen? Whomever was whining about whatever
workout I was making them do.
One
thing we don’t know about you at team? That’s
for me to know.
What
is it like being a part of one of the best climbing teams in the country, let
alone the world? | 
