Katherine Schirrmacher 129384
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 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.
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Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor | 15/08/2008 | |
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Development Coach | 15/09/2015 | |
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Mountain Leader | 30/03/2007 | |
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Single Pitch Award | 27/10/2005 |
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AMI CPD Teaching Crack Climbing | 25/03/2024 | 1.00 |
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Coaching Provider workshop 06/12/2023 | 06/12/2023 | 1.00 |
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Making Menopause Matter - 1023 | 18/10/2023 | 0.25 |
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'Teaching crack climbing' AMI Peer-led CPD | 02/06/2023 | 1.00 |
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Working on Idwal Slabs | 20/04/2023 | 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.
