Indoor Climbing
During winter months, the club has use of 2 indoor climbing walls. They’re great facilities for both new and experienced climbers and you are required to be a member of the club to attend any of the sessions.
Langford
The climbing wall at Langford is about 6m high, has 6 top-ropes and 3 auto belays, comprising roughly 25 routes. Route-setting is done by professional route-setters brought over from the UK 2 or 3 times a year. The grades range from 4 to 7c+, with the majority or routes being around the 6a grade. Sessions are normally an hour long and the club books multiple sessions per week throughout the winter.
PAYG Sessions
These sessions can be booked by anyone on a weekly basis. These sessions are primarily for beginners (but open to all) and there will be club members on hand to assist climbers with belaying, tying in and keeping safe whilst using the wall.
During the sessions, you will be assessed on the following criteria to determine if you can climb unsupervised in our other sessions:
- Correctly fitting a harness
- Tying-in to the rope using an appropriate knot
- Using the correct belay technique
Once you have satisfied these criteria, a club leader will let you know that you have been ‘signed-off’ and you can then attend our other indoor sessions if there are spaces available (see below).
Block Sessions
For our more experienced members, who have demonstrated the necessary skills and competence, we offer block sessions.
These are booked in advance and usually run for 3 months. Priority will be first-come, first-served and worked out so that everyone gets at least 1 slot before additional slots are allocated.
If you are looking for a slot in these sessions, keep an eye on the #slots-for-sale channel in Discord where sessions will be advertised if people are unable to make it on a given week. You must be ‘signed-off’ by the club before you can attend these sessions.
MoonBoard
The club recently received funding to invest in a training wall. Ultimately we decided on the MoonBoard as one of the most popular standardised training walls available.
Set at an angle of 25°, the learning curve can be quite steep (excuse the pun), but the standardised format makes it easy to measure progress and see real gains in strength and technique. As a form of bouldering wall, it’s also very social, with members working problems together and supporting each other.
It’s been a journey to find a venue to host our shiny new MoonBoard, but we’ve been given space in the Jack Falle Community Centre in St Clement. Unfortunately there are still restrictions when we can access and use the MoonBoard so you must sign up for sessions in advance or keep an eye on the website and Discord for any open weekends.