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Katherine Schirrmacher 129384
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Membership Mountain Training Association

Membership Type Course Director Member

Membership Number 129384

Renewal Date 22/09/2024

Membership AMI

Membership Type Full Member

Membership Number 24333

Renewal Date 01/07/2024

I love the process of figuring out my client's motivations and aims in their climbing, looking at ways they can improve their technique, physical performance as well as tactics and the mental side. I use every aspect of my training (Mountain & Climbing Instructor and Development coach), as well as what I've learnt through 15+ years of coaching, life and my own climbing to get the best out of my clients.
I work both indoors and outdoors, since we need both to practise exercises, training and technique to allow us to see changes in our climbing. I live in Sheffield working out of all the climbing walls there and also the Peak District, which offers a lifetime of both limestone sport climbing, and gritsone trad climbing and bouldering.
I am also a provider for the Mountain Training Coach Award Scheme Foundation and Development courses and the BMC FUNdamentals courses. All of these courses are for coaches and instructors who want to improve their coaching skills.
FUNdamentals of Climbing 1 22/05/2024 Details
FUNdamentals of Climbing 2 23/05/2024 Details
Foundation Coach Training 03/07/2024 Details
Foundation Coach Training 25/09/2024 Details
AMI CPD Teaching Crack Climbing 25/03/2024 1.00
Coaching Provider workshop 06/12/2023 06/12/2023 1.00
Making Menopause Matter - 1023 18/10/2023 0.25
'Teaching crack climbing' AMI Peer-led CPD 02/06/2023 1.00
Working on Idwal Slabs 20/04/2023 1.00
Coaching Provider Workshop 07/12/2022 1.00
AMI self-accredited learning (full day) 31/05/2022 1.00
AMI self-accredited learning (full day) 07/01/2022 1.00
AMI self-accredited learning (full day) 13/05/2021 1.00
Diversity - barriers to access and how Mountaineering Instructors can influence change 24/03/2021 0.50
Course Directors ONLY: More than an Outdoor Experience - Ian Davidson, The Outward Bound Trust 05/08/2020 0.25
Course Directors ONLY: Writing great blogs - Oli Reed, Trail Magazine Editor 28/07/2020 0.25
Coaching Provider Workshop 28/11/2019 1.00
Mountain Training Coaching Scheme Provider & Course Director Induction 26/06/2019 1.00
Coaching Leading at a Sports Climbing Venue 07/06/2019 1.00
Coaching Provider Workshop 29/11/2018 1.00
Any - Small Business / Marketing Course 06/11/2018 0.50
Any - Small Business / Marketing Course 10/09/2018 0.50
Any - Personal Skills Course (1/2 day) 31/10/2017 0.50
BMC / MCofS - Coaching Symposium 23/10/2016 1.00
BMC / MCofS - Coaching Symposium 22/10/2016 1.00
Role of the Technical Advisor 09/06/2016 1.00
Coaching Scheme Provider Workshop 26/11/2015 1.00
BMC Physical Training for Climbing 2 05/11/2015 1.00
Coaching Award Scheme Provider Induction 26/09/2013 2.00
NICAS Moderater meeting 11/09/2013 1.00

I was about 11 the first time I went climbing. That was on Idwal Slabs in North Wales. Coming from the West Midlands, there weren't many opportunities to go climbing outside and so I stored up in my mind that I would take the next opportunity that came my way. That arrived in the form of Leeds University climbing club. From then on my life changed. Since then I've enjoyed every aspect of the sport including trad climbing, sport climbing, bouldering and competing for team GB. It's taken me all round the world and stand out places to climb for me are Arapiles in Australia, the Needles in California USA and sport climbing in the south of France. When I figured out that there was a way to make climbing my career I've really never looked back.

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