5 Climbing walls in 5 days

With winter refusing to die a death and despite a serious need to go climbing I've been happy to be working in a few varied Scottish climbing walls this week. My work has included a Foundation Coach Training, some training on wall rescues and floor walking, a review of paperwork and procedures, a Climbing Wall Award Assessment attending and assisting with another staff training, a Climbing Wall Abseil Module Training and a moderation for NICAS.
There are some great people working in our climbing walls in Scotland, the passion for our sport is tremendous and new walls are opening and they are becoming more professionally established all the time. NICAS is a great way for climbers to enter the sport, the competition scene is healthy, Climb Scotland are offering support to many walls  especially the smaller ones and clubs too. Its a pleasure to work in this part of climbing sometimes and this week was one of those times.

 A new wall about to open

 Some staff training

 What do you see? Observation skills on Foundation coach Training

 Teaching motor skills tasks on FC Training

 Got a problem? No worries the staff can help

 Competent people inspecting PPE

 Running a modern climbing centre

 Personal proficiency on a CWA Assessment

 Knowing about the tools

Preparing for the worst 

 All sorts of walls

 CWAA group abseil setup

 Options for getting yourself back down

 NICAS in action

 Happy, safe, developing climbers

This is what its all about!