Tag: climbing
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A Week at Warren Gorge and the ‘New School Method’ to Rock Climbing Instruction
The aim of the game last week was to educate a couple of Year 11 Outdoor Ed classes on rock climbing at my home crag, Warren Gorge, with one class being Monday – Wednesday and the other being Wednesday – Friday. Fortunately for me there was enough supervision at the campsite each night that allowed…
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A Round of 21 Holes at the Moon
The idea started in Brodie’s head first. “Imagine climbing a route for every grade at Arapiles, from 1 up to 21, to celebrate my 21st birthday“. My initial two thoughts were what a great idea but what a terrible choice of location. Sure Araps has all the routes and there are some classics at the…
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Running BC, AC and the Meaning of Being an Outdoor Athlete
Covid changed a lot of things for a lot of people. One of the ways it impacted me was it pushed me into climbing more than I ever had. You can’t overfill a glass of water so to fit in the time for climbing there must have been something I let drain out. It didn’t…
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Drawing comparisons between Climbing and Tennis
I enjoy going rock climbing and I enjoy playing tennis. I also enjoy watching and reading about these two sports. There is a lot more content available on tennis then there is climbing and so I find myself watching a lot of tennis or reading about it and trying to apply some of the principles…
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My Hardest Climb
If you’re instructing climbing or talking to people who are new to climbing the one question that crops up most of the time is, ‘What’s the hardest climb you’ve done?’ It’s similar to asking a marathoner what their marathon time is, or a full-forward in Aussie rules footy what’s the biggest bag they’ve kicked. As…
Fraser Darcy 