Interactive
Clinics
In brief:
CLIMBING PHOTOGRAPHY - Simon Carter
BOLTING - Gareth Llewellin
TRAINING - Garth Miller
TRAD CLIMBING - Ben Heason
TRAINING - Monique Forestier
INJURY PREVENTION - Julian Saunders
MENTAL FITNESS - Arno Ilgner
Hot Debates
Access Forum
Clinics
Instructional clinics will be running throughout the weekend. These will be small
group sessions and are only available to FULL PASS holders.
Email us to make a booking, quote your FULL PASS number, your name, your mobile number, and the clinic.
Numbers are LIMITED, first in best dressed!
CLINICS LISTING
(keep watch as more clinics are confirmed and pricing details are posted)
1. Climbing Photography
By Simon Carter
Simon Carter shares his experience and ideas stemming from 13 years wor king as a professional rock climbing photographer. Come along and learn some tricks and techniques to help you take better climbing photos. This will be an interactive session with opportunities for discussion and questions.
Limited to 25 participiants. $20. Duration 1.5 hours
2. Bolting Clinic
By Experienced & Influential New-Route Protagonists
This clinic will provide an insight into the complexity of fixed protection covering hardware, bolting skills and other considerations. This is a must attend clinic for anyone planning to place bolts.
Limited to 25 participants. $10. Duration 1.5 hours
3. Style Does Matter: Improve technique for more efficient movement *****BOOKED OUT*****
By Garth Miller
Suited to any climber wishing to improve in rock climbing. Will investigate why technique is difficult or impossible to keep towards the limit of physical performance. Will discuss the importance of engrams, how to re-train technique and break bad habits, breathing and how to retain focus, composure and efficiency during at limit performance. A great opportunity to get personalised tips from one of the world's leading climbers.
Garth Miller lived and travelled extensively through Europe and the US from 1995 – 1998 encountering many top-level climbers and different methods of training in the various places he visited. Taking what he saw as the best methods, he blended them with his background of yoga and martial arts where he learnt techniques to improve reaction time, speed, power, body tension and freedom of movement. By 1998 he had a tick list including two 32 and a dozen 31 on sight including two in the same day, red pointed 33 in three tries and flashed v11. At the time he was one of two people in the world to on sight at this level and still the only Australian to do so.
Limited to 10 participants. $25. Duration 1.5 hours
4. Trad Climbing *****BOOKED OUT*****
By Ben Heason
Learn from one of the masters of the climbing game. Ben is respected worldwide for his onsight skills of long and demanding trad routes in nthe UK and in remote locations. He will share some of his hard earned knowledge including equipment use, gear placement, route finding and more.
Limited to 10 participants. $20. Duration 1 hour
5. Women's Rock Climbing Clinic
By Monique Forestier
This course is designed for female climbers who are wishing to further develop their skills and push themselves further. Join one of Australia’s leading female climbers for an intimate one hour session where she will share some of her secrets as well as give many opportunities for Q & A’s.
Limited to 10 participants. $25. Duration 1 hour
6. Injury Prevention & other National Disasters
By Julian Saunders
Content: injury treatment and prevention; Q&A.
Suited to: anyone who is broken, been broken, or would like to avoid it.
Qualifications: a vast history of personal injury as a direct result of pushing the rig to the brink (which is not very far!). A degree in Biomedical Science, another in Clinical Science, and a Masters Osteopathy (the pathophysiology and biomechanics of finger injuries). Not to mention 10 years of thinking about climbing injuries.
Limited to 25 participants. $15. Duration 1.5 hours
7. Mental Fitness Training for Climbing *****BOOKED OUT*****
By Arno Ilger
For a copy of the Arno's clinic flyer click here
- Are you accomplishing all your climbing goals?
- Are you frustrated or disillusioned with your climbing?
- Have you hit a performance plateau?
- Could your mental approach be to blame?
The clinic will involve climbing exercises. Below are some things you'll learn.
- Improve self-observation skills
- Risk assessment
- Practice falling in small increments
- Set a powerful intention and commit to that intention
- Trust in the process
- Deal with climbing stress/chaos
- Improve problem-solving skills
- Reduce fear, and more...
This is Arno's first trip to Australia and a really unique clinic to improve your mental approach to climbing.
The clinic will be held at the crag on the 6th (day before festival) or 9th (day after festival). This clinic will
be much more comprehensive and hands-on than Arno's talk at the festival.
Limited to 10 participants. $69-
'Hot Debates' presented by Icebreaker
We will be conducting two passionate and entertaining formal debates in the 'Mad Rock Café' about controversial climbing issues. Two teams of three will battle it out with the following topics. Come along and kick back in the comfy couches and give applause/groans when necessary. The winning team is determined by the crowd response.
THE TOPICS ARE:
'HOT TOPIC 1: First Ascent is all motivated by ego.'
TEAM ‘FOR’ - Tim Macartney-Snape, Adam Darragh, Arno Ilgner.
TEAM ‘AGAINST’ - Jonathan Clearwater, Neil Monteith, Mystery Person.
- ' HOT TOPIC 2: You should put up climbs so that other people can climb them, not just for yourself.'
TEAM- ‘FOR’ - Kim Carrigan, Simon Mentz, Louise Shepherd.
TEAM- ‘AGAINST’ - Warwick Baird, Adrian Laing, Macciza Macpherson.
Access Forum
presented by ACA
photos © the Access Fund
The Australian Climbing Association will be hosting an Access Forum. This event will bring together
representatives of climbing communities from around the country to discuss a range of issues relating to cliff
environments and access. The aim of the forum is to explore current issues around the country and facilitate
the creation of a supporting community. The ACA will use the occasion to promote the idea of a national approach
to access management, as well local initiatives such as adopt-a-crag. More details will be released prior to the
festival.
10% of all Australian Climbing Festival profits will go to the ACA to help kick-start the fledgling 'Australian Access Fund'.
