Learn to lead climb outdoors - Long Weekend

This long weekend course is the perfect introduction for those with a good grounding on top rope climbing who want to make the transition to sports lead climbing. Taught entirely on truly excellent and well bolted sports routes, you will be introduced to all the fundamental skills such as clipping, Lead & Dynamic belaying and threading. Helping you build confidence, we look at how to develop a successful lead climbing strategy through understanding when to focus your attention in the mind to make decisions and when to focus your attention in the body to climb efficiently. You will also learn how to utilise red-pointing to improve your onsight climbing. Addressing the psychological challenges we look at the importance of Motivation, Intention, Attention & Experience providing you with a framework to risk assess and make more appropriate decisions. 

This course is often run alongside the Improvers long weekend (see below) as we find that people often have a different evaluation of their experience and level . We often start with two groups and then we mix the group as the day progresses based on how comfortable people feel. The first session is spent climbing and looking at basic crag skills (Clipping, Rope Management & Lead Belaying) taking the time to establish these fundamentals depending upon your level of experience. Next the emphasis turns on Learning Falling as a Skill & dynamic Belaying, always starting on top rope and stepping upwards once you have developed comfort to allow appropriate learning experiences and challenges. Incorporated in this are the skills for safe and efficient lead belaying.  The last sessions are spent consolidating skills and focusing on Movement to both improve your technical & mental skills in a controlled and staged environment to reduce risks.  

Necessary and suggested equipment: Harness, climbing shoes, and helmet, are essential. Your own rope and quick draws are highly recommended. 

Price: Can be found on our Course dates and Booking information page.  Price includes tuition, Barcelona pick up and drop off, transport to the climbing areas, insurance, shared accommodation and half board vegetarian meals with wine.

Improvers - Long Weekend         

Reached a plateau and can't make that breakthrough to the next level? Not quite sure what is holding you back? You find you struggle with lots of fear or frustration and the days of pure climbing joy are far and few in between… If your sports climbing matters to you and you want to learn to climb to your maximum potential then this is the course for you. Whether you climb F5+ or F7b we can help you to identify your strengths and weaknesses and to improve your overall sports climbing performance. The course is completely hands-on and involves you climbing superb routes carefully selected by us to not only test and challenge you, but also to introduce new concepts and techniques which will help you make that quantum leap to the next performance level.

The first session is spent climbing a variety of state-of-the-art sports routes demanding the use of a wide range of climbing styles. This helps us to assess your strengths and weaknesses so that over the next few days we can work on reinforcing and expanding the positive aspects of your climbing while eliminating the bad habits and psychological doubts that contribute to under par performance. The course is based on the Warriors Way Mental training method and addresses all the issues critical to high performance sports climbing: preparing mentally and physically for hard climbs; optimal lead climbing techniques including clipping best-practice and knowing how to fall; the use of red-pointing to promote mind/body synthesis; and winning the head game by learning how to make more appropriate risk decisions and Learning how to stay committed to let your body climb without your mind interfering. All in all a very complete long-weekend that will get you either pushing the grades or just simply understand how to find joy in climbing consistently.

Necessary and suggested equipment: Harness and climbing shoes. Your own rope is highly recommended.  

Price: Can be found on our Course dates and Booking information page.  Price includes tuition, Barcelona pick up and drop off, transport to the climbing areas, insurance, accommodation and half board vegetarian meals with wine.