Mountain Training Rock Skills Intermediate

Rock Skills Intermediate: This two day course builds on your previous experience as a climber and introduces you to more advanced climbing skills.

Over the two days you will gain confidence in your belaying, learn how to belay a lead climber and how to second route competently, as well as developing your climbing movement skills and learning how to place traditional protection and how to construct safe and appropriate belays.


You will also look at the following skills:

- Background and planning

- Warming up and injury avoidance

- Increasing your climbing movement and technique repertoire

- Building anchors

- Selecting appropriate runners

- Personal abseiling


By the end of the two days you should feel confident with your newly acquired skills and looking to progress your knowledge by attending a Rock Skills: Learn to Sport and/or Learn to Trad courses.


Pre-Requistes:

- Completion of a Rock Skills Introduction course.

OR,

- Have logged 10 routes on an indoor wall or at outdoor crags; and

- Have logged 10 belays of a fellow climber.


These can be logged via the Mountain Training Association Candidate Management System (CMS).

You may also like the following events from Up & Under Adventures:

• Next month, 13th July, 09:30 am, Introduction to Navigation course in Marlborough
• This August, 3rd August, 09:30 am, Introduction to Navigation course in Marlborough
• This August, 23rd August, 09:00 am, Mountain Training Rock Skills Intermediate in Charlton Kings

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