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.
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.
Sam and I split the group up so we had the same students as last week. We had separate session plans for each group. My group were the stronger, more confident climbers. so we looked at how structuring your climbing sessions in a pyramid can appropriately prepare you for harder climbs. i.e. 4x VO, 3x V1-2, 2x V3-4, 1x V5-6.
This worked well with this group and ensured that everyone was able to scale the pyramid to their push grade.
Area :
Bloc Climbing - Bristol
