Rock Climbing

Like at the beginning of the first year of IB, our IB coordinator organised a Rock Climbing experience for my IB cohort at White Spider Climbing. this is one of the UK's newest and largest climbing centres with more than 360 routes on 104 lines, up to 20 metres on our stalactite roof, grades from 3 to 8b. It also has over 240 boulder problems, including a massive comp wall, big cave and dedicated training area, along with regular route setting from some of the biggest names in the industry. This was useful for CAS because it allowed me to increase my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth. I was also able to work collaboratively with my other peers and show perseverance and commitment by not letting go and just abseiling down the wall every time I got tired and I became a thinker, a communicator, open-minded, caring, a risk-taker and balanced.

My aims for this activity were to have a great experience at this great indoor rock climbing centre as I had only been indoor rock climbing half a dozen times before. I also was doing it as it is a fun for of exercise and to get fit, and to come together and do something entertaining with my peers after a whole summer without them. 

This was challenging for me because I had not done rock climbing for about a year before that since the Challenge and had to do a practice round to remind myself of the techniques for rock climbing and abseiling down with a partner. 

This was Active because despite it being very fun and entertaining, the harder routes (there are routes with different levels of difficulty) required a lot of strength and ability to complete.  

Overall, this was a great form of physical exercise and was very fun to participate in along with all of my classmates. I feel like I was able to reunite with them after such a long time separated through this fun activity and I would definitely like to do it again as I am a big fan of this sport and really enjoy doing it.