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Climbing workshop with Richard Delaney 26-Jan-2015 At 11:40:38 AM Dave_S

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Tim - I don't know that the numbers you're seeing here should really be taken as indicative of how many would attend if a workshop were organised, just because Chockstone has a limited audience (compared with Sabu's suggestion of advertising through VCC, MUMC, etc) and people will be hesitant to put their hands up without a date, cost or venue having been locked in. Unfortunately though in order to get more people to commit, you'd need to first lock in the workshop... Catch-22 when you're trying to determine whether the workshop is viable!

However, I'd certainly expect that there'd be sufficient people interested if a workshop were to go ahead in Melbourne. Consider that Andrea and Lee's performance climbing workshop at Lactic last year drew around 50 participants over two sessions, and the cost of that was twice what Richard is charging for his workshops in Sydney. (Though travel expenses would probably inflate his prices a bit if he were to run them in Melbourne.) So, I'm not sure if you'd actually be organising this, or if you're just trying to give Richard an idea of whether it's feasible, but I think a better first step than trying to gauge interest on Chockstone would be to look at how much it would cost to run, and then figure out from that how much he'd need to charge and how many people would need to attend, and then maybe just assume that the workshop would draw a bare minimum of 20 participants and decide whether or not to go ahead with it on the basis of that.

As for me, I probably wouldn't attend, just because it sounds like it'll be a lot of basic mechanics for climbers who don't have a background in classical physics or mechanical engineering, and that isn't me, but it does sound like it would be extremely beneficial for a lot of other people, and I'm now quite tempted to sign up as a RopeLab member instead.