Rock Skills Learn to Lead Sport

Name: Rock Skills Learn to Lead Sport
Start: 2025-09-06T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-06T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Trollers Gill

Schedule

Sat Sep 06 2025 at 09:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Trollers Gill | Skipton, EN

£225.00, or £420 for 2 people, £500 for 3 people
14+ years old
2 day course
Ratio 1:2 or 1:3
Dates:
22-23 April
17-18 May
19-20 June
6-7 September
If you are already two people and none of the dates above work for you, please do get in touch.
This course is a full two days of learning, and climbing some amazing Yorkshire Limestone. Learn to lead skills are different for everyone and we work with you to not only teach you the hard skills to climb safely in the outdoors on bolts, but we will also support you with additional coaching to help you get to grips with climbing outdoors.
Sport climbing venues are very popular in the UK and abroad, especially our favourite Spain, and it is very accessible and affordable compared to Trad climbing. If you are also a lead climber indoors, then this is the ideal course to transition to the outdoors, if trad climbing doesn't appeal.
Course Content:
- Background and Planning. Choosing suitable venues and routes, how to use guidebooks and mobile devices to find crags and routes, crag etiquette, the importance of the climbing partnership, the work of the mountaineering councils.
- Climbing Skills. Safe and assured movement on the lead and optimising natural rests for clipping bolts.
- Equipment. Ropes and technical equipment for sport climbing.
- Technical Skills. Fixed equipment, anchors, ropework, belaying, holding/taking falls in a controlled environment, lowering, lower offs and abseiling.
- Environmental Knowledge. The impact of climbers at the crag, ethics, access and environmental considerations for climbers.
- Hazards and Emergency Procedures. Identifying hazards, decision making and managing risk, understanding common injuries, what to do in the event of an incident, managing common problems, how to get help and the role of the Mountain Rescue.
By the end of the course you can expect to:
- Have covered the course content in a safe and enjoyable outdoor environment and classroom-style setting;
- Have climbed outside for a good proportion of the day on an appropriate crag;
- Be in a strong position to head out on your sport climbing adventures;
Climbing experience required:
- Have logged 20 indoor or outdoor climbs on top rope
- Have belayed on at least 20 occasions top rope
- Indoor lead climber wanting to head outdoors with similar experience to above