Students learn the fundamentals of lead climbing and demonstrate the ability to lead belay appropriately.
- Learning clipping techniques
- Learning Clip Positioning including dangers of backclip and Z clip
- Understanding lead falls and assessing fall lengths
- Rope awareness in relation to footwork
- Understanding the parts and function of the GriGri
- Learning principles of safe belaying with a GriGri including feeding and taking in slack
- Understanding belayer positioning
- Understanding commands and communication
- Understanding and practice of catching lead climber falls
- Scenario discussions (weight differences, catching low falls)