Sport Climbing Class

5.0 (2)

Group Size

4 people per guide

Duration

7.5 hours

This course is for the gym climber that wants to learn how to lead sport climbing routes outdoors. This course is designed to take a competent top rope climber and turn them into someone who feels comfortable sport climbing outdoors and indoors. We will hit the ground running in this course, quickly covering a variety of topics specific to outdoor sport climbing before jumping into climber and belayer specific responsibilities while sport climbing. We will discuss how to position yourself best as the climber to avoid unwanted consequences, and how to manage slack as a belay, while also protecting yourself. We will also touch on bolted anchors, and how to best utilize them while climbing. This course will spend time on the ground, utilizing a number of training aids, time climbing with a top rope back-up, and finish with some first leads. This class will be covering a lot of ground. The more solid of a foundation of climbing and top rope belaying you have prior to this course, the more you can expect to gain from this class.