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