Climbing Wall Instructor training

To inspire, enable and develop people in walking, climbing and mountaineering through the provision of nationally and internationally recognised skills training and leadership courses. All Mountain Training courses are quality assured and delivered through its network of approved providers. Calshot Activity Centre is approved to deliver the Climbing Wall Instructor scheme course.

This 2 day Mountain Training course provides the foundations and requirements for the CWI assessment course which will allow you to supervise others on artificial climbing walls. The syllabus includes teaching belaying, group management and coaching climbing movement.

You must ensure that you meet the requirements stipulated by Mountain Training before attending the course. Once you have completed this course you can do your assessment.

Requirements:
- You must be a member of a mountaineering council: BMC, Mountaineering Scotland or Mountaineering Ireland (you can join one when you register if you're not already a member) - find out why 
- You must be registered on the scheme. If you have not already done so, please register here
- You must have an understanding of the wider sport of climbing.
- You must be at least 17 years old (18 at assessment)
- You must have an up to date logbook (preferably DLOG) with evidence of the following:
- Visits to 3 different climbing walls on at least 15 different occasions; this must include at least one major public wall.
- 10 led routes at Fr4 on walls.

If you wish to book onto the abseil module, please do so here: CWI Abseil module training
More information about the course syllabus can be found on the Mountain Training website 

Additional info:
- Parking is included.
- Lunch isn't provided
- B&B accommodation may be available, please email us at Calshot.bkgs@hants.gov.uk to check availability.
- Calshot Activity Centre is committed to ensuring that everyone has equal opportunity to attend our courses. If you have a particular need that requires extra assistance, please discuss it with us before booking. 

- Please follow this link to see Mountain Training's guidance on reasonable adjustments: Reasonable adjustments

If there are no dates available, please email us at calshot.ac@hants.gov.uk to be added to our waiting list.