Performance Route Climbing Classes
Want to push your roped climbing to the next level? Say hello to performance route climbing classes at BIG Depot Manchester.
Our advanced sessions perfectly follow on from our Learn the Ropes classes to help you take your rope climbing further, with options to sharpen technique, read routes, manage the pump and overcome any fears of falling.
You can also explore the techniques of projecting and onsight climbing harder routes to really unlock your potential.
Scroll on to find out more about each area we can cover.
What are Performance Route Climbing classes?
A recurring series of individually bookable sessions that can be booked to suit your climbing goals. Pick your area, and choose how much you want to learn!
These classes are perfectly positioned for those who are signed off to auto belay or rope climb independently in our centre, or those who have completed relevant sections of our Learn To pathway and would like to take their climbing to the next level.
What are the options for Performance Route Climbing classes?
Route Climbing Technique (Autobelays)
These sessions focus on the fundamentals of techniques that are essential for building a solid foundation for route climbing. With a focus on weight distribution between arms and legs, and form using the hips through specific drills to learn, develop and deploy the techniques necessary.
Managing Pump Whilst Climbing (Autobelays)
The pump comes for us all when pushing the grade. Focusing on the various gears needed to complete a route, such as when to put in maximum effort, how and when to rest to recuperate enough to send, and optimising the pace of your climbing.
Mindset & Fear of Falling (Lead Climbing)
Lots of climbers are scared of falling off on a lead, or are at least unable to fall off whilst trying hard. On this session you will learn how to understand this fear and develop techniques to help manage it and unlock our potential.
Focusing on the key decisions that come with managing the risk of falling to become confident in marginal movements on the wall that can result in falling. There are 5 main areas of focus in these sessions that will help you gain the confidence you need to perform at your highest level and manage your mindset and acceptable risk level.
Trying Routes Above Your Limit (Lead Climbing)
These sessions will develop a climber’s ability to read a route and set expectations around onight, flash, or redpoint climbing and the techniques required, such as top roping moves versus leading. Climbers can expect to learn the mindset required to push their climbing to the next level on the sharp end.
Learning the process of projecting or ‘Redpointing’ is vital for climbing our hardest routes. In this session, you will learn how to break down a route and work out the moves most efficiently and tactically for the send.
Who are these sessions for?
These are climbing coaching sessions, aimed at climbers actively looking to push their grades and roped climbing abilities.
Participants will also need to be signed off on our climbing proficiency requirement for the Mindset & Routes Above Your Limit sessions. If you’ve just finished our Learn to Lead classes, we suggest around 3 months of consolidation of your climbing to get the most out of your coaching, and be able to climb our 6b routes.
For those looking to learn how to rope climb, our Learn the Ropes classes are the perfect first step:
Learn to Auto
Learn to Belay
Learn to Lead
How Much Is It?
£35 per class
Per person, per class.
Classes last 2 hours and are always under the careful supervision of our expert instructors.
Booking
Please note that you need to be a competent and signed-off auto belay or rope climber in our centre to book these sessions.
If you have any booking queries, please contact [email protected] or call us on 07902 332474
