CLIMBING LVL 1 Workshop – Thursday (Ledge) 10/10/24

Hi Everyone!

Myself (Gabriel), and Amelia V will be running a level 1 Trip Leader CLIMBING workshop on the (Thursday) 10th of October, starting at 5pm at THE LEDGE.

This workshop is for TLITs mainly, but is open to anyone (upon approval) with serious intention of becoming a UNSWOC Trip leader.

The goal is the workshop is to cover the following learning items;

● Confident and competent in managing participants on trips
● Understand and be able to identify rope types and their uses (single, double, half)
● Understand the importance of end knots, including appropriate knots and when to use them
● Understand fall factors and its impact on rope longevity
● Teach and identify mistakes when lead belaying with an ATC and GriGri (or similar)including avoiding tunnelling, keeping hand on the brake strand at all times, correctly giving slack, keeping fingers off the cam and hands below the device
● Understand and practice climbing calls such as ‘TAKE!’, ‘SLACK!’, ‘IN HARD!’,‘LOWER!’
● Teach the 5 step belaying process with an ATC and GriGri
● Demonstrate and identify the importance of clipping (stick clip high first bolt, avoiding z-clipping and back-clipping, when to clip high or clip at waist height, clipping technique with each hand and gate combination)
● Demonstrate and identify the effects of rope drag
● Demonstrate and identify the importance of avoiding foot faults
● Understand and inspect different bolts such as U-bolts, carrot bolts with bolt plates, expansion bolts
● Understand the importance of correct quickdraw orientation (spine facing direction of climb and dogbone stiff side to rope, loose side to rock)
● Demonstrate and understand the correct technique for clipping a quickdraw to a carrot bolt and fixed hanger
● Set up and inspect a top rope setup with a quad anchor ensuring screws on gates are facing down, gates are opposite and opposed, locking carabiners are used instead of quickdraws, and that the anchor is redundant and load is distributed
● Demonstrate and teach the cleaning of a climb ensuring two points of contact at all times
● Demonstrate tying off a variety of belay devices (ATC, GriGri)
● Demonstrate self-rescue and is self-sufficient on a trip

THESE ARE WHAT WILL BE REVIEWED AND PRACTISED, ALONG WITH THE GENERAL ROPEWORK SKILLS (LINK BELOW)

You can find the complete list, + the General ropework skills HERE

Signups will close the morning of. As a member, you are expected to complete some pre-reading, which i will send out to aproved members. This is critical that you do this, as it saves time and energy on the night.

This workshop isnt the be all end all, but merely a start, to learning the ins and outs of being a safe, effective, and fun trip leader for climbing. No matter your climbing discipline, its imperative that you know all of the learning items. (bouldering is more of an exception with the hard skills, but soft skills are just as important)

Feel free to shoot myself (Gabriel) a message on facebook if you have any questions.

This is a rare opportunity, and a great way to learn trips and tricks. There will be limited spots TBC, so please sign up early.

In the comment, let me know your climbing experience/technical knowledge, and keeness!

Many thanks, and hope to see many of you there!

Gabriel and Amelia!