CWA training course

I've spent the last two days working on a Climbing Wall Award training course with Pete Hill based in Aberdeen.  The course had been organised primarily for Transition Extreme and RGU: Sport climbing staff.

Debs doing all the hard work whilst Callum belays.

Ahh; spot the sensible course director...

Day one was spent at RGU and included wall considerations, personal climbing, warming up and equipment use.  Day two included the remaining major elements of the CWA including; group management, session format and problem avoidance and solving.

Karen and James playing with toys.

Now everyone hold hands and sing on the count of three!

Linda working on her balance; either that or she's at the forefront of a fashion trend!

The Abseil module of the scheme was bundled into the course on the Thursday afternoon so I spent most of the day in the upper atmosphere of Transition Extreme; a.k.a. the abseil ledge working through the set-up and management of group abseils.

As Tamzyn looks longingly for a safe descent all she got from Al  was a fiendish grin...

Look what I did; Richard ready to abseil.

A really fun two days made all the better by the standard and characters in the group.  My thoughts go out to those whose brains were beginning to implode at the end of day two!