Mountain training Coaching Award Scheme
'The Coaching Award Scheme is designed to develop the coaching skills of those working in indoor climbing walls, sport climbing and bouldering. Whether you’d like to coach the next climbing superstars, or simply create fun and engaging skills-based sessions, the Coaching Award Scheme is a great way to improve your climbing coaching skills. The scheme may also be of great interest and value to volunteer and professional leaders, instructors and guides.'
booking
We are providers of both the Foundation and Development Coach training and assessment courses. Our area is Yorkshire, North East (England) and South East Scotland: Harrogate, Leeds/Bradford, Sunderland, Durham, Newcastle, Carlisle and Edinburgh. All of our course dates are listed below as well as on the Mountain Training website where you will also find further details and information on how to apply. If you would like to arrange a private course further afield, or if these dates don't work for you, then please get in touch.
Friction (Gateshead)
Foundation Coach Training: Dates TBC / Cost: £100/ Times: 10.00-18:00
Alien Bloc (Edinburgh
Development Coach Training: Dates 20-21/06/2024 / Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.00
City Bloc (Leeds)
Foundation Coach Training: Dates TBC / Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-18:00
Parthian (HARROGATE)
Foundation Coach Training: Dates 17/07/2024 / Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-18:00
Foundation Coach Assessment: Dates TBC / Cost: £100 / Times: TBC
Development Coach Training: Dates 5-6/09/2024 / Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.00
Development Coach Assessment: Dates TBC / Cost: £150/ Times: TBC
Foundation Coach Training (outdoor based - Almscliffe): Dates TBC / Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-17.30
SUNDERLAND WALL
Foundation Coach Training: Dates TBC Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Development Coach Training: Dates TBC / Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Foundation Coach Assessment: Dates TBC / Cost: £100 / Times: TBC
THE Climbing Hub, Bradford
Foundation Coach Training: Dates TBC Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Development Coach Training: Dates TBC / Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Foundation Coach Assessment: Dates TBC / Cost: £100 / Times: TBC
THE BIG DEPOT, LEEDS
Foundation Coach Training: Dates TBC/ Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Development Coach Training: Dates TBC/ Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.30
THE DEPOT, MANCHESTER
Foundation Coach Training: Dates TBC / Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Development Coach Training: Dates TBC / Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.30
EDEN ROCK, CARLISLE
Foundation Coach Training: Dates: TBC/ Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-17:30
Development Coach Training: Dates TBC / Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.30
EDEN ROCK, EDINBURGH
Foundation Coach Training: Dates: TBC Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Foundation Coach Assessment: Dates: TBC/ Cost: £100 / Times: TBC
Development Coach Training: Dates: TBC/ Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.30
EICA RATHO
Foundation Coach Training: Dates: 17/01/2023 Cost: £100 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Development Coach Training: Dates: TBC / Cost: £160 / Times: 10.00-17.30
Client Reviews
This week Hannah and Ben went to Leeds and completed their BMC Fundamentals of Climbing 2 and 3 workshops and Foundation Coach Training module. They learnt so much and their brains are fit to burst with new knowledge and ideas! 💡
Huge thanks to Andy @climb_for_life1 for being the most inspiring coach and trainer! 🤩👏 We are so excited for the future of @climbhitchin
Hannah and Ben. December 2020
Thank you very much for such an amazing day!
Josh L, FC Training at Big Depot (Leeds), February 2020
Cheers man was really useful, learnt tonnes
Ciaran S, FC Training at Big Depot (Leeds), February 2020
FC Training at Manchester Depot, February 2020
Thanks for coming down Andy. The staff enjoyed the day.
Tom N, FC Training at Manchester Depot, February 2020
Heard the Development Coach training course was awesome! The guys had only good things to say and were very motivated by it, thank you.
Karishma, DC Training (Ratho), January 2020
I think everything went great at the course, it certainly gave me a lot of cues and material to start working with. I was actually quite glad to have that many people on the course as it was interesting to hear different point of views.I found the most useful part to be the short session simulation and in particular coaching and being coached on the same topic to see the different approaches from different groups.
Mauro, FC Training at Eden Rock (Edinburgh) January 2020
Doing FUNdamentals 1&2 followed by FC all in quick succession has been quite an intense journey packed with some really good learning that we hope will transform the way we deliver our crag-based activities. We are very much looking forward to consolidating it all & looking at how we apply to the type of clients we work with and the environments we work in.... It'll be interesting!
One thing that's for sure is that we have both seen our grades improve down at Eden Rock over the last couple of months as we have drilled down & applied the FUNdamentals to our own climbing! I might even become a geriatric boulderer - loving it!!!
Each of the three days we've attended have had a really good "vibe" to them and we have been very appreciative of your approach to delivering them: relaxed, great pace to the days & step wise building through each day. We've recommended you to a lot of folk!!
I (Mal) am hoping to crack on with consolidation of the FC coach & would like to get back for assessment later this year so will be in touch. Maz is going to focus on getting her RCI out of the way first.
Thanks again!!
Mal and Marion, FC Training at Eden Rock (Edinburgh) January 2020
Hi Andy!
Thanks so much for the last few days.
The content was great and you divided everything up nicely from classroom to practical (I appreciated the amount of practical we got to do!!) It's been the most fun I've had on a course.
But most of all thank you for being friendly and taking the time to listen to what we all had to say. I've been on so many courses that haven't been friendly and a real chore to get through. It's a brilliant quality you bring; so thank you!!
Take care, Jess.
Foundation Coach training, May 2019
Hi Andy,
Just wanted to say thank you so much! Course was great and enjoyed every aspect of it.
Hope to work with you again in the future at some point!
All the best,
Nat
Development Coach training, May 2019.
I just wanted to say thanks again for a fantastic course. It was great to see such well thought out coaching models and plans that I can apply to my own clients as well as being a great environment to share ideas with the others on the course. It's left me feeling motivated to be less slack with my own personal training and keen to work with more young climbers again! What a great bunch of people on the course as well and I think it's the first time that I wasn't the youngest on an MT course - I'm not sure if that's because I'm getting old or because there are more youths getting involved!
CM. Development Coach Training January 2019
Thanks for running a great day this week for us. You were totally right about my decision not to skip Foundation Coach training and the huge value I will have by completing the scheme as it is designed. I have to say that xxxx was right also in her recommendation to attend your course and the amount of thorough preparation and thought you put into the structure and delivery to make it a great day. It doesn't matter if you've been working in the industry for years or you've heard the coaching theories before, there is always something more to learn, or be reminded of or another way of delivering it and when it is delivered well there is definitely always more to learn. Thank you.
It made me realise that the FUNdamentals 1/2 course that I did was a long time ago and didn't have the nice clear outcomes that your Foundation Coach course did. I am glad to be completing FUNdas 1 with you next wk and wish I'd done it prior to the Foundation coach day.
I hope that the uptake for this scheme grows as newly qualified instructors CWI, RCI alike start their careers and perhaps either becomes integrated into these awards or a necessary component because it can only add to the quality of instruction and in turn customer satisfaction/progression.
I liked how clearly you structured your sessions. I liked that there was the written prompts as well as your verbal dialogue to reiterate the key learning points. I liked that you checked/tested whether we'd retained the learning. Your delivery style is nice and calm and a good pace. And what a great venue!
Thanks for a great day Andy.
Catch you next week.
MB. Foundation Coach Training December 2018
'"I did Foundation Coach Training with Andy. We hadn't met before and I'll admit I was open-minded but slightly cynical about what hard outputs I might get from the course. I could not have been more wrong! Andy delivered an excellent day at Harrogate Wall that was very practical, packed full of 'high protein' tips and enjoyable too. Andy catered to our mixed-ability group with ease and I certainly left with a very clear picture of what good 'foundation coaching' is. He followed up the course with sending us all the slide pack and other resources. A superb day and I will certainly be looking to do further coaching modules under Andy's instruction. I highly recommend Andy and Climb for Life!"
Mike D. Foundation Coach training. 8/02/2018
