This two-day course is designed to take your indoor climbing skills and applying them to outdoor Sport Climbing. Learn the art of Sport Climbing and pick up some skills to help you become an independent sport climber.
The course will cover:
- Lead belaying
- Lead sports climbing skills
- Threading lower offs
- Movement coaching
- Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.
(The syllabus of this course is designed by Climb Scotland: Learn to Sport Climb.)
Duration: 2 days (Saturday 12th September and Sunday 13th September)
Ratio: 1:4
Minimum Age: 14 (Under 18s must be supervised by an adult who is also a participant on this course).
Pre-requisite experience: Participants must be consistently climbing indoors and be a competent Bottom-Rope belayer (some experience of indoor lead climbing and lead belaying would be beneficial but not essential).
Required equipment: If you have any other climbing equipment such as rock shoes, a helmet, harness and belay plate please bring them along with you.
If you do not have this equipment, it is available to borrow from ClimbOot. Please let us know in the appropriate section in the booking form.
ClimbScotland is a programme by Mountaineering Scotland to help inspire people of all ages and abilities to get involved in climbing, both indoors and outdoors. ClimbOot is approved to deliver Ready to Rock courses on behalf of Climb Scotland. All Climb Scotland courses are quality assured.