Basecamp for Men

Come In. Do the Work. Leave Stronger.

Performance coaching for men. One on one. Built on the same system I take onto the ice, aimed at the life you actually live.

Gerry van der Walt on the Greenland ice sheet, frost in his beard

You hold a lot. Work, family, money, the version of you everyone depends on. Most of it you carry quietly, because that is what you learned to do.

It works, until it does not. The short fuse. The flat patch that will not lift. The goal you keep talking about and never start. Nothing is wrong enough to call it a crisis. It is just heavier than it needs to be, and you know it.

You do not need fixing. You need a place to put the weight down, look at it properly, and pick up only what is yours to carry.

Performance coaching, one on one. Me and you.

We take what I have used for 25 years, with executives, athletes, and men who just wanted their lives back, and we point it at yours. Pressure. Patterns. The gap between what you say you want and what you actually do. An honours degree in sport psychology underneath it, and 553km of ice behind it.

Sessions are direct. You will talk more honestly than you expected to, and you will leave with things to do, not just things to think about.

See how the work actually works

01
The first conversation.

One call. You tell me what is actually going on, I tell you straight whether I can help. If I cannot, I say so and point you somewhere better. And to be clear about where this work ends: I am a coach, not a therapist. If what you are carrying needs clinical help, I will tell you straight and help you find it.

02
The work.

One on one, for a defined stretch. We work on the pressure, the patterns, and the things you have carried alone for years. Direct, structured, built around your life.

03
The end.

You finish. We close it properly, you keep the tools, and you go run your life. The door stays open. Coming back is not failing, but the goal is that you stand on your own.

A defined stretch of one-on-one work with an end date. You come in, we do the work, you leave stronger, and you leave. It sits alongside whatever already holds you up. Your training, your mates, your faith, your people. And you take it back to them.

Bring Me In.

Some work lands one on one. Some lands in a room full of men. I do both, and I come to where your men actually are. A boardroom, a lodge, a trail, a fire.

An evening built on an honours degree in sport psychology, 25 years of performance work, and 553km of ice. Practical tools on pressure, goals, and standing back up, not a lecture. One-on-one coaching for the man who is ready to go deeper. And support for the men who lead other men, because carrying people is heavy work, and the ones doing it rarely have anyone carrying them.

If you have men, a team, a crew, a community you have built, bring me in. They keep what they hear, and they come back to you stronger.

Get in touch about an evening

I am not writing this from a chair. I competed for South Africa as a gymnast, I hold an honours degree in sport psychology, and at 50 I hauled a sled 553km across the Greenland ice sheet, 29 days, unsupported. I know what pressure does to a man because I keep going to where it lives.

I am 50. Former national gymnast. An honours degree in the psychology of performance. Twenty-five years coaching people through pressure, and I built and ran businesses before that, so I know what it costs to carry payroll and a family at the same time.

And in May 2026 I crossed the Greenland ice sheet on foot. 553km. 29 days. Unsupported. A 100kg sled and no way out but forward.

That is not an adventure story. It is quality control. Every framework I use on you got tested in the one place where you cannot fake it, talk your way out, or hand the problem to someone else. The road ahead is the South Pole, solo and unsupported, in 2030. The work keeps getting tested because I keep going back.

I am not asking you to do anything I have not done, and am not still doing.

On-the-ice selfie with sleds and the team behind

If you are still sitting across from me in three years talking about the same thing, we are doing it wrong, and I will be the first to say so.

A lone figure hauling a sled across the Greenland ice sheet under a heavy sky

"Gerry has helped me find not only direction and purpose but also balance. My relationships are on the mend and life looks so much brighter."

Conal Benson, Coaching Client
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