It was a privilege to run the Climbing Wall Award Training Course 17th -18th January 2015 with the 5 young climbers ranging from 17 – 23. Probably the nicest group of budding Instructors I’ve ever met – Ollie Chamberlain, Emily Campbell, Tom Holman, Callum Nicklin and Jason Hargreave. They all had very different and interesting […]
Climbing Award Training UCR
Ali ran the two day CWA training course at UCR with 5 very different candidates – Jenny(17) an experienced youth squad climber, Beth(19), very new to climbing having recently begun working at UWE wall, but what she lacked in experience she made up for in enthusiasm, Jim(26) with limited personal climbing experience but lots of coaching experience, […]
CWLA Training at UCR with Jumping Geo
An exciting and stimulating CWLA Training at UCR in Bristol with Harry Martin, Geo Macintyre, Toby Dunford and Alan Reason. A wealth of experience meant a deep understanding of the areas covered, and a great sharing of ideas and observations in a very practical course. Toby and Geo demonstrating back clipping Discussions of techniques and […]
Sport Climbing Holiday in Kalymnos
The last time I was in Greece my children were very small and I hadn’t started climbing. I arrived in Kos to torrential rain, thundering and lightening and thought ‘this was a mistake’. A taxi to the port followed by a ferry, took me to Kalymnos and waiting for me on the dock my friend Mick. […]
Climbing Wall Amazeballs
I had the absolute fortune to run the most amazing Climbing Wall Award I have ever done, and I’ve led a few. The group – Tom, Lisa, Charlotte, Illya and James were an intersting group with a variety of experience, mostly in their early 30’s and there was knowledge and experience to share. It was an interesting […]