So following on from the BMC FUNdamentals course I did last month (Read blog here) I took a further step towards being a climbing coach by attending the Foundation Coach Training Course run by Katherine Schirrmacher. Full details about the course can be found by clicking the link here. The course was held at the Loughborough Climbing Station. Loughborough was my old University town but back then we had to train on the chipped brick wall on the back of the Chem Eng Building

I have real bee in my bonnet about Outdoor Education. The current school system was devised when we had an Empire and we needed a system to run the empire. We needed administrators to run the Empire and they all needed to run off the same system because, due to the lack of Phones etc, communication was very difficult and took a long time. Therefore a system was developed for people to learn a regimented fashion and be taught a regimented fashion. This would then prepare t