Mountain Trainin Picture

Mountain Trainin Picture

Wednesday 20 May 2015

CWLA Assessment...

Today (22nd may 2015) myself, Andy, Jack and Selena participated in a CWLA assessment course run by Mark Garland of Channel Training.

Aspects of the assessment included:


Personal belaying...
  • Introduction to centre facilities.
  • Risk assessing.
  • Session planning.
  • Warming up strategies.
  • Personal climbing (at F6a) and belaying.
  • Progressive teaching of falling and best practice.
  • Running a learning to lead session with mock students (teaching clipping, lead belaying, falling, catching falls etc).
  • Practical discussions.
  • Review of test paper and discussions on various results.
  • Individual feedback.
  • Results. 

Teaching a method of clipping quickdraws...


Massive thanks to Mark for running the assessment and thanks to the 6 mock students who volunteered for the day.
Massive well done to everyone who passed.

[Photos taken by Mark Garland]

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