Rock Climbing Instructor Assessment

Session Overview

After completing you RCI Training (or exemption) and a period of consolidation then you can present yourself to be assessed as a Rock Climbing Instructor. Before you attend a Rock Climbing Instructor assessment, make sure you have done the following: - You must have attended a Rock Climbing Instructor (or Single Pitch Award) training course or been granted exemption from training. - You must be familiar with the syllabus. - You must be competently leading Severe grade climbs on outdoor crags with leader-placed protection. - You must have led a minimum of 40 graded rock climbs with traditional protection at a variety of venues (of which at least 20 MUST be at Severe grade or above). - You must be proficient in the use of climbing walls and have a minimum of 30 climbing wall leads graded at F4 or above. - You must be proficient in outdoor bolt-protected sport climbing and have a minimum of 10 sport climb leads graded at F4 or above. - You must have assisted in the supervision of 20 instructed sessions. These sessions should be at a variety of different venues with 10 being on indoor climbing walls and the other 10 on outdoor crags. A session is a half day or evening. At least five of these sessions must have personal reflective comments recorded on DLOG. (For guidance see question 3 in the DLOG section on this page.) - You must have physically attended and completed (i.e. not online) a first aid course which involved at least two full days or sixteen hours of instruction and included an element of assessment. Rock Climbing Instructor assessment is 2 days long.