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Accident at Mt Buffalo 15-Jul-2015 At 12:19:06 PM Wendy
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I learnt to climb in a uni club, and I hate to agree that Damo has a point. I learnt in the dodgiest manner possible, went on to teaching people myself almost straight away and it was a year or 2 until I actually was on top of things enough to actually teach people, then after another year or 2, I left. When I look back on it, it's amazing any of us survived our first 2 years of climbing. It's not just uni clubs though - most people I know who have been climbing a long time look similarly back on their beginnings. It is in some ways a classic way to perpetuate poor practices. THink of it as like inbreeding. If someone teaches you something suboptimally, unless you've learnt otherwise elsewhere, you reteach it to someone who reteaches it to someone else ... it becomes the standard practice for a certain population.

Uni clubs however have come a long way since then, as indeed have standards in climbing instruction in general. Many of them employ more experienced guides to run their beginner or learn to lead courses for them or pay for their more experienced member to do instructor courses. It's still an unregulated industry however, and there are people out there teaching who really shouldn't be. Even in those who have some training, I firmly believe that regular and varied practice is necessary to develop and maintain good skills, and quite a lot of qualified instructors (in our unregulated system with many difficerent providers of different sort of climbing instructor courses) don't have that. One course i know gets its 3rd years to teach its 1st years. Another great way to perpetuate problems.

And (as I think Stu or Patto might have said) there is a lot of dodgy stuff done at our cliffs everyday. That people don't have nasty accidents more often is amazing. It's not just unis or clubs, it's people with either poor skills or poor judgement in general.

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