Crack Climbing Technique-w/ Dean Lords Mammut Athlete New! 5/8/08
--Sunday, 9am-3pm
--8 Spaces available
This
clinic will give you all the info you need to climb cracks of all
widths! You'll learn about the art of jamming and gear management.
Requirement for class:
Be able to TR 5.7 cleanly
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Belay skills
Working knowledge of Trad gear
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet, rope, trad rack, slings, draws
Crack Climbing Technique-w/ Freddie Wilkinson Mountain Hardwear Athlete New! 5/8/08
--Sunday, 9am-3pm
--8 Spaces available
This
clinic will give you all the info you need to climb cracks of all
widths! You'll learn about the art of jamming and gear management.
Requirement for class:
Be able to TR 5.7 cleanly
Figure 8
Belay skills
Working knowledge of Trad gear
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet, rope, trad rack, slings, draws
Crack Climbing Technique for WOMEN New!
--Saturday, 9am-3pm-w/ Lizzy Scully and Jessa Goebel
This ladies only clinic will give you all the skills you'll need to climb cracks like a master! You'll learn about the art of jamming, gear placements and time permiting anchors.
Requirement for class:
Be able to TR 5.7 cleanly
Figure 8
Belay skills
Working knowledge of Trad gear
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet, rope, trad rack, slings, draws
Yoga for Climbers Updated! 5/8/08
--Friday 5:00pm You can just show up for this one, look for the crowd of people
--Saturday 5:00pm
--Sunday 9-12
--Unlimited spaces, you can sign up or just show up for this one! Bring a mat if you have one, Prana will be providing some yoga mats
Local yogi Kara Ware, graduate of the Asheville Yoga Center, will help you incorporate a yoga practice to improve your climbing. Great for balance, strength, flexibility and focus. Bring your yoga mat if you own one or let us know you will need one provided to you.
Friday 8:00am--Dynamic Flow w/ Kara Updated! 5/8/08
Kara Ware is a single mom who practices yoga more off the mat currently. It
is the times when she is on the mat, that she receives the guidance how
to help her two boys be healthy and strong and how she can best serve
her community. Pranayama and meditation have been the
greatest teachers in her life recently. Teaching her how to be still
and strengthen her communication with the divine.
FLOW YOGA:
Coordinating Breath & Movement.
Gentle to Dynamic.
Pranayama included!
Saturday 5:30pm--Yoga for Climbers w/ Amanda Updated! 5/8/08
The clinic will offer physical alignment techniques to keep your body safe on and off the rock. These alignment principles will help to build proper muscle memory so to help prevent injury. The clinic will include: pranayama (breathing), gentle yoga asanas and a strong emphasis on how to move more lightley from deep inside - in addition to muscular and mental strength.
Sunday 9-12--Yoga for Climbers w/ Kara & Amanda Updated! 5/8/08
This clinic will open by addressing the needs of each individual at the clinic. A gentle vinyasa class, coordinating breath and movement to help open areas that are tight to injury, heartache, and lack of or over development of muscles. This will help you connect with the present and allow you to become part of the big picture. The clinic will conclude with a discussion on diet, moral & ethical codes of conduct. Questions welcome througout.
What to bring:
Please bring your mat…there will be a some available to borrow courtesy by Prana
Rigging for the Climbing Photographer with Harrison Shull (Intermediate & Advanced photographers)
--Saturday Clinic, 9am-3pm
--FULL
This clinic is NOT Photo 101. It's geared towards those who already know how to take pictures. The focus will on rope tricks and gadgets to help you get better climbing shots. Join a pro and improve your climbing shots. This clinic is designed for climbers already comfortable with the operation of their cameras and who know the basics of exposure and composition. At the Bridge Buttress, Harrison will cover the below intangibles that will “make” your climbing photography sparkle.
1) Safe and efficient rigging (equipment recommendations, technique, and timesaving “tricks”)
2) Pre-visualization of the route to capture “peak action”
3) Get creative - think outside the box!
4) Plus more insights from Harrison’s decade-plus of climbing photography
To check out Harrison's work, see his website www.shullphoto.com
What to Bring :
- Your Camera(s) and Lenses if applicable
- Lots of Water
- Notepad and pencil
- Climbing Gear
Crack Climbing Technique FULL
--Saturday, 9am-3pm-w/ Andres Marin- Asolo, Fiveten, Petzl Athlete
This clinic will give you all the info you need to climb cracks of all widths! You'll learn about the art of jamming and gear management.
Requirement for class:
Be able to TR 5.7 cleanly
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Belay skills
Working knowledge of Trad gear
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet, rope, trad rack, slings, draws
Warriors Way Mental Training for climbers with Arno Ilgner, the acknowledged expert in the art of mastering your mind. Please specify which day at time of booking.
--Friday FULL
--Saturday FULL
--Sunday FULL
About this clinic:
The Warrior's Way Introduction to Mental Fitness Clinic Clinic description: The Warrior's Way® teaches how to focus attention impeccably during the climbing process, especially when you are most apt to seek escape. By doing this you enter into and act out climbing challenges with all of your available power.
Areas covered [you'll learn to]:
- Improve self-observation skills
- Break a climb into smaller risk events
- Focus attention when stopped/resting/assessing
- Focus attention when actually climbing
- Improve problem-solving skills
- Reduce fear, and more
Investment: A donation to NRAC that you are comfortable with
Content of the class:
You'll be doing climbing exercises on toprope.
What to expect:
We'll begin by breaking a climb into decisions point places where you can stop, rest, and assess. Next we'll identify how to focus attention when stopped/resting/assessing and how to focus attention when actually climbing.
Requirement for class:
You do need to know the fundamentals of knots, belaying, basic climbing skills, and previous lead climbing experience.
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, rope, belay device, and a helmet (if you have one).
Self Rescue- New! FULL Day Format
--Friday, 9am-3pm FULL
--Saturday, 9am-3pm FULL
Learn the basics of getting yourself out of trouble--a critical skill for all committed climbers. "Ack" and Diane Kearn owners of The Gendarme and Seneca Rocks Climbing School to instruct. You'll learn how to escape the belay, ascend a rope and counter balance rappel with a "victim".
Requirement for class:
Minimum 2 years climbing experience
Able to lead 5.7 Trad
Knots- Figure 8, munter, clove hitch, prussic, auto-block
Belay skills with: Gri Gri, ATC or similar
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it-- a helmet, 2-prussics (3ft, 5mm), 2-cordelettes, assorted locking biners
Crack Climbing Technique w/ Brittany Griffith
--Friday 9am-1pm
--FULL
This clinic will give you all the info you need to climb cracks of all widths! You'll learn about the art of jamming and gear management. The one and only Brittany Griffith will instruct this clinic for the 5th year in a row! Thanks Britt you rock!
Requirement for class:
Be able to TR 5.7 cleanly
Figure 8
Belay skills
Working knowledge of Trad gear
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet, rope, trad rack, slings, draws
Crack Climbing Technique
--Saturday, 9am-3pm-w/ Will Mayo- La Sportiva Athletes
FULL
This clinic will give you all the info you need to climb cracks of all widths! You'll learn about the art of jamming and gear management.
Requirement for class:
Be able to TR 5.7 cleanly
Figure 8
Belay skills
Working knowledge of Trad gear
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet, rope, trad rack, slings, draws
Sport Climbing 101, led by Petzl & Evolv Athelte Chris Lindner
--Saturday, 9am-3pm
--FULL
Chris will be teaching sport climbing basics modeled after his new instructional DVD that has just been released. This clinic is suitable for beginner to intermediate climbers. Some of the topics he plans on covering are:
* Climbing Vocabulary
* Proper Equipment and Set-Up
* The Basics of Lead Climbing
* Figure 8 Tie-In
* Clipping
* Falling
* Cleaning Quickdraws
* Belaying
* Onsight/Redpoint Tips
* And much more...
If you want to include a trailer, check out:
Chris is a strong California climber who's been climbing since could walk. He's an Access Fund Athlete Ambassador, volunteers for the HERA Climb for Life Ovarian Cancer Foundation, and is an all around bad ass. He's sent over 30 5.14's and is super psyched to make his first trip out to the New this year. He's also featured in the newly released video called "Spray" which chronicles his climbing adventures in NoCal with Joe Kinder.
Requirement for class:
You do need to know the fundamentals of knots, belaying, and basic climbing skills.
Equipment Needed:
Personal Climbing Equipment such as: Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet
Trad Climbing for the Chicken-Hearted w/ Malcolm Daly--Trango Founder
--Saturday, 9am-3pm
--FULL
An intro to trad leading clinic for beginner trad leaders, topics to be covered are route and gear selection, racking up, crack technique and anchors.
Requirement for class:
You do need to know the fundamentals of knots, belaying, and basic climbing skills, including the ability to top rope 5.8 sport routes without falling
Equipment Needed:
Harness, shoes, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet, rope, trad rack, slings, draws
Gym to Crag w/ Prana Athlete Ben Schmitt
--Friday, 9am-3pm
--FULL
Get great tips to help you transition from plastic to stone. Ideal for gym climbers with little to no outdoor experience, who know how to tie in and belay. Great for beginner climbers. New River Mountain Guides will instruct.
Topics to be covered:
1. Safety Considerations
2. LNT
3. Gear Overview, Sport vs Trad
4. How to set up a TR from natural and fixed anchors
5. How to "clean" your gear off a route
Requirement for class:
Some gym climbing experience and/or basic climbing skills like knots and belaying.
Equipment Needed:
Harness, belay device, and if you own it--a helmet, cordelette, 4 locking carabiners
Climbing Anchors w/ Jim Shimberg
--Saturday 9am-3pm
--FULL
This
clinic is geared towards those who want to learn how to lead trad
routes but lack a solid foundation in gear placements. This clinic will
take place at ground level so you'll be able to focus on placing solid
gear wthout the worry of being on the sharp end. You'll learn to
identify the good the bad and the ugly and then incorporate it all into
SERENE anchor systems with a variety of rigging material.
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