Fear of Falling
Falling is a part of climbing. However, often the fear of falling can hold a climber back and limit one’s enjoyment. In this clinic we’ll explore ways to make falling fun and allow you to approach climbing with confidence.
What You’ll Learn
Understanding Fear
Build an awareness around how you experience fear, what triggers you to feel scared and how you react.
Building Confidence
Learn mental strategies such as visualization, breathing and relaxation techniques to manage anxiety and improve focus while climbing.
Gradual exposure to falling - we’ll start small and take progressive steps to find the edge of our comfort zone and work on growing our relationship with falling.
Technical Skills:
Practice safe falling techniques and build understanding and trust in our safety systems so that we can fall with confidence.
Learn the nuances of giving soft catches, because falling softly makes it so much more fun.
The Details
Date
March 2025
Additional Dates available upon request
Duration
Clinic runs from 8am to 4pm
Pre-requisits
Climbers must be familiar with lead belaying on an assisted braking device (such as the Gri Gri). Climbers must also be confident leading 5.9.
Location
Skaha, Squamish
Cost
275$
Ratio
1 : 6
What you need to bring
Harness, helmet, assisted braking belay device, climbing shoes, chalk
What we provide
ACMG certified climbing guides, ropes, quickdraws
