Our beginners course covers all aspects of indoor climbing: warming up, bouldering, belaying, climbing with in-situ ropes and lead climbing. The aim is to get you to a standard where you can understand and minimise the risks inherent in using a climbing wall, avoid injury and enjoy using a wall without the need for supervision.

The course has four sessions.

Session One - The session to get you started! We look at personal safety and injury avoidance in a practical and infromative way. Next up is the fun bit - we look at climbing technique to get you up around and down the climbing walls! We will be on our Bouldering walls so you be able to climb lots and get all the input from the instructor to make rapid gains in your climbing ability

Session Two - An introduction to roped climbing. We will look at the selection and the use of suitable climbing equipment, climbing and belaying skills using in-situ ropes, route selection and more climbing techniques.

Session Three - An introduction to lead climbing. The session covers the skills you will need to be able to climb and belay in a lead climbing situation, at an indoor wall.  We will look at the many aspects of climbing on the lead to make the appropriate judgements to reduce the risk involved and how to belay in order to safeguard the lead climber. 

Session Four - Further Lead climbing. A continuation of all the sessions to consolidate the skills learnt. 

Minimum age 14 yrs. Courses run year-round so give us a call for latest availability.

Beginners Course - Cost:

£90 for all four sessions

Beginners Courses  2010 - Dates and Times 

Start Date	Followed by sessions on	Time
Tuesday  03 August 2010	10/08/10   17/08/10   24/08/10	6.45-9.30pm
Thursday 12 August 2010	19/08/10   26/08/10   02/09/10	6.45-9.30pm
Wednesday  01 September 2010	08/09/10   15/09/10   22/09/10	6.45-9.30pm
Tuesday 07 September 2010	14/09/10   21/09/10   28/09/10	6.45-9.30pm

 MORE DATES WILL FOLLOW