Cliffhanger Indoor Climbing Gym will be hosting the 2020 Victorian State Lead Titles Feb 29 – Mar 1
$1,000 on offer to the Female and Male winners of Open A.
It will be a fantastic weekend of climbing from all age groups, make sure to put the dates in your calendar and watch out for the volunteer form.
Stay tuned for more information.
Wishing all our SCV members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
We would like to wish all our members and associates all the best this Christmas and a Happy New Year, safe travels and see you in the New Year. Here’s to an exciting 2020 and Sport Climbing entering the Olympics!
Speed Titles are on the 14th of February 2020 at Gravity Worx – More information to follow.
Look out for our first Newsletter in January with more information on the Lead, Speed Titles and our membership renewal drive early January.
Today is “International Volunteer Day” and where would be without all the amazing volunteers we have!
Lead, Speed and Boulder Titles all take a huge amount of work from the gyms and large volunteer numbers are always required. We had the largest competition sign ups ever in 2019.
Adaptive Climbing Victoria could not have achieved such a fantastic inclusion rate without all the volunteers to help run the Come and Try day’s and not to mention the SCV board and ACV board which are run entirely by volunteers.
We put the call out and you answered. Thank you to everyone who has helped us throughout the year, we couldn’t achieve all the things we do without you. THANK YOU.
“Volunteer for an Inclusive Future 2019”
all photos by Yvette Harrison
Declaration Crag, Mt Arapiles (thecrag.com)
There has been a re-discovery of rock art at Taylor’s Rock (Declaration Crag). Barengi Gadjin Land Council shared this news with the Rock Climbing Roundtable in advance of a public statement as a positive story of celebration and a demonstration of their faith in the climbing community to do the right thing.
They respectfully ask all users of the park (not just climbers) to abide by the restrictions being put in place at the site whilst they as a community decide what they would like to do with this discovery and the site for the future. As a climbing community we feel honoured by this gesture of faith and celebrate this amazing discovery.
Sport Climbing Victoria are enthusiastic about the potential this discovery holds to increase the value of a special place where climbing & cultural heritage can co-exist.
Congratulations Barengi Gadjin Land Council.
Such a fantastic weekend with a training camp hosted by North Walls Indoor Climbing to aid the Adaptive Climbing Community.
Setter, Carlie LeBreton was flown down by Sport Climbing Australia and together with Victorian setter, Anaya Brain were in attendance to further enhance their skills as setters for the many different classifications in a Paraclimbing competition setting.
Sian Spencer and Katie Kaminski (AVC) (Physios) both from the SCA Paraclimbing Sub Committee were in attendance to teach warming up, cooling down and climbing techniques to suit the climbers needs, while AUS Youth Team Coach Sophie Bell came along on Sunday to help assist and offer her skills. Australian Paraclimbing Team member, Russell Harrison and Adaptive Climbing Victoria members, Sarah, Minty and Julie came along to both days and would all agree it was a fantastic weekend filled with learning all about competition format, warm ups and cool downs, technique to aid their adaptive needs but most importantly they had a fantastic time supporting each other, laughing and together how we can achieve amazing things.
Thank you to Nick and North Walls Indoor Climbing, the staff and SCA for making the event as great as it was.
Can’t wait till the next one and thankyou to everyone who made it happen!
If you would like to be involved in Adaptive Climbing contact :- adaptive@sportclimbingvictoria.com.au
Thank you Yvette Harrison for the photos
The Adaptive Climbing community came together for a movie night held at North Walls Indoor Climbing Gym for a fantastic nights entertainment. Stirling Rope were on board with a full bag of goodies for the crowd and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the movie, “Adaptive” starring, Maureen Beck and Jim Ewing. 🤩The crowd heard from Adaptive Climbing Board member, Katie Kaminksi and Australian Paraclimbing Team Member, Russell Harrison on all things going in our adaptive climbing world. Thank you to everyone who came along, North Walls & Nick Flatley for always being so supportive of our Adaptive Climbing family.🏆❤ Looking forward to the next event!
If you are interested in Adaptive Climbing we would love to hear from you, adaptive@sportclimbingvictoria.com.au
📸 Russell Harrison