QEH - 14:00 - 15:00
Up to 10 participants, all adolescent males. This is a regular group to Bloc who have been attending regular bouldering sessions for a number of years as part of their PE syllabus.
Today I wanted to give them an opportunity to push themselves, but without the pressure of being told that they were going to be climbing hard.
As this is a long term group, we look at various aspects of climbing per week, with the aim of improving individual's ability and confidence on the wall. Each session will have a focus on either technique, strategies or competition prep.
Structure:
- Paperwork
- Intro
- Check for illness & injury
- Warm up (cardio pulse raiser followed by mobility exercises - Though this warm up featured dynamic movement patterns i.e., frog hopping, side stepping, skipping)
- Safety Rules
- Free climb to get the group ready to climb.
- Group activity including an introduction to the session aim, a demonstration and then a task to practice newly introduced skill.
- WATER BREAK
- Cooldown/stretch out.
Having spoken to the teacher, I'm trying to push this group to do NICAS bouldering so that they have structured learning regardless of their instructor/coach. The teacher is keen and most of the group are as well. Just need to get the approval of the school.
Area :
Bloc Climbing - Bristol
