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Learn to Climb

Adult Climbing & Bouldering Lessons at Depot Climbing

Want to learn to climb?

Our centres run a range of high-quality climbing lessons, from complete beginner to elite performance with expert instructors on hand to provide bouldering and climbing lessons for everyone, because we’re here for Making Everybody Strong.

We have a range of sessions from group classes that are never more than 1:6 instructor to participants, to specialised 1:1 coaching and training to help you reach your goals.

Find out more about our climbing lessons below, and click through to your local Depot Climbing centre to start your journey to learn to climb today.

Please note that not all sessions are available at each Depot site.

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Bouldering

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Fundamentals Climbing Classes

If you’re just starting out on your climbing journey, setting solid foundations will set the tone for successfully getting what you want from your journey.

With a focus on progressing climbers in the V1-V3 (our White and Blue circuits) to V2-V5 climbers (our Black and Red circuits), these classes are guaranteed to improve your technique and ability.

Covering the 4 core foundations of climbing, we offer 1 hour classes focussing on:

Footwork

Body Positioning

Route Reading

Dynamic Climbing

Sessions are 1 hour long, and in groups of up to 6 participants to 1 instructor.  Classes can be booked in any order, to suit your needs, and if you’d like to mix it with our performance classes, you can do that too!

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Performance Climbing Classes

Are you climbing around V3-V5 (our Black, Pink and Red circuits) and would like to break into the next level of climbing?

Following on from our Fundamentals core foundations of climbing, these sessions look to build on your fundamental skills and provide more advanced coaching for rising through the levels.

Each session lasts for 1 hour focusing on advancing and introducing the following:

Footwork

Body Positioning

Dynamic Climbing

Conditioning

Sessions are 1 hour long, and in groups of up to 6 participants to 1 instructor.  Classes can be booked in any order, to suit your needs, and if you’d like to mix it with our fundamentals classes, you can do that too!

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Roped Climbing

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Learn the Ropes

Consisting of 4 classes, our Learn the Ropes pathway is the safest and most efficient way to becoming a competent and unsupervised indoor roped climber.

Set out into 4 digestible stages, taking you from complete beginner to experienced lead climber, you can choose from 4 stages of the pathway:

Learn to Auto

The first in our pathway to becoming competent roped climber.  Auto Belays are mechanical devices that allow you to climb without a belayer and automatically arrest falls and slowly lowers you to the ground.

This is the most accessible entry to roped climbing. We advise 1 session.

Sessions last 1 hour.

Learn to Belay

The second instalment and one of the core foundations of any climbing journey. These classes will teach you how to competently belay a top-rope climber, through the fundamentals of belay technique.

We advise a minimum of 2 sessions on this class.

Sessions last 2 hours.

Learn to Lead

Third in our Learn the Ropes pathway, learn to lead will teach you the fundamentals of lead climbing skills, from clipping quickdraws as you ascend the route to the anchors at the top of each climb.

We advise a minimum of 2 sessions on this class.

Sessions last 2 hours.

Learn to Fall

In the final chapter of our competent climbing pathway, you will learn to competently lead belay a climber, and also hone your techniques on the wall and approach to falling.

We advise 1-2 sessions on this class.

Sessions last 2 hours.

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Private Coaching Sessions

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Tell Us Your Goal

If group coaching sessions aren’t for you, our bespoke 1:1 coaching product could be for you!

Focussed around you, we start with a simple request; tell us your goal.  Personalised coaching geared entirely towards what you want to achieve, we’ll pair you with the most suitable coach for your needs and take it from there.

We can accommodate casual private coaching, training plans and detailed goal chasing.

See how our tailored coaching service can help you, whatever stage your journey is at.

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Depot Climbing is a member of the Association of British Climbing Walls.