Awarding Body

Mountain Training

Scheme

Indoor Climbing Assistant

Course

Training and assessment

Type

Assessment

Award Description

This is a combined training and assessment course for people who want to actively support a qualified instructor. Qualified Indoor Climbing Assistants can assist with core tasks within a session, directly supervised by an instructor.

The Indoor Climbing Assistant is designed for people who want to support qualified instructors with climbing sessions on artificial structures. People interested in this scheme might be parents, youth workers, young leaders or teachers and the focus is on assisting with core tasks within a session.

While operating under the direct supervision of a qualified instructor, an Indoor Climbing Assistant can:

Assist with the fitting of basic equipment such as harnesses, helmets and rock shoes.

Assist a qualified instructor with the supervision of core climbing techniques.

Assist a qualified instructor at indoor and outdoor bouldering venues and climbing walls

Prerequisites for the Indoor Climbing Assistant course

Before you book onto an Indoor Climbing Assistant course you should have;

• Experience in the basic skills of climbing (belaying, harness fitting, tying on).
• Logged 5 indoor climbing sessions. (There is no personal climbing requirement, you can just belay, but it is useful to have experience of climbing.)
• Belayed on a minimum of 5 indoor climbing sessions.

After the course you will be given an assessment result of either Pass or Defer (not yet mastered basic skills).

If you have completed the Indoor Climbing Assistant you should be competent in the following key areas, all of which will be covered, to a greater or lesser extent, during the course.

• Technical competence (equipment, belaying, personal skills and background knowledge)
• Management and decision making (managing participants under supervision, demonstrations and understanding your role)
• Teaching and learning skills
• The climbing environment (access, etiquette and ethics)

Detailed information on each of the above topics can be found in the Indoor Climbing Assistant candidate handbook. As with all Mountain Training qualifications, your experience prior to attending the course will have a huge impact on the result and you should try to be as fully prepared as possible.

Start

21/04/2023 10:00

End

21/04/2023 16:30

Total Days

1

Maximum Bookings

6

Bookings

2

Venue

Keswick Climbing Wall

Town

Keswick

County

Cumbria

Postcode

CA12 4RN

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

54.60396

Longitude

-3.09457

Name

Graham Uney Mountaineering

Phone

07498058912

Website

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