Climbing

Who are we?

The Climbing Club is a casual and competitive club for anyone to join, creating a relaxed social environment for trying and learning something new as well as making friendships that last longer than your university careers!  Our Club is perfect for novice Boulderers and Top-Rope climbers or seasoned Lead Climbers!

We meet on Mondays and Wednesdays between 7pm-9pm at the Sports Centre climbing wall.

The wall has 7 lines of roped climbing with grades varying from 3+ to 7a so there is plenty of climbing for you to do, both easy and challenging . We also have a bouldering wall with an over-hanging buttress, creating a wide variety of routes, challenges and some interesting moves! We are also home to a, hard to find, lattice board for stamina training and a finger board with varying sized ledges for training purposes!

Members of the club have access to harnesses when climbing on-site as well as club-owned ropes for learning knots, and lead climbing!

Competitions and Coaching

For 2024/25, we hope to compete in the Midlands University Climbing Competition and BUCs. We hope to grow our abilities together and strive improve upon the success we achieved last season.

Membership 

To access the sessions, you will need both the Union Pass (£20) and a Climbing Club Membership (£45). The Union Sports Pass is a one-time annual fee that gives you access to participate within sports at your Union. As a Union Sports member, you receive the following benefits:

· Access to join our Sports Clubs and access training sessions

· You are eligible to compete in BUCS competition

· Able to purchase tickets to the Sports Awards

· Specific Personal Accident Insurance for student sport through Endsleigh, if you are injured as part any club activities - https://www.derbyunion.co.uk/getinvolved/memberresources/

· Access to coaching and officiating bursaries through club application to the Union.

The Union Sports Pass also helps keep our clubs affordable by helping the Union fund training and competition opportunities.

The Club membership is specific to climbing and allows you to come to the weekly training aswell as borrow equiptment for onsite use.

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday 17th September: Freshers fair (10:00-16:00)

Wednesday 18th September: Freshers fair (10:00-16:00)

Wednesday 18th September: 1st Give it a go session (19:00-21:00)

Monday 23rd September: 2nd Give it a go session (19:00-21:00)

Wednesday 25th September: Final give it ago session (19:00-21:00)

Detailed information about our events will be shared via a new Newsletter format we will be trialling this year, although we will still announce our events via the group chat and Instagram.

We will also be posting regular updates on the club's Instagram throughout the year! Just follow us at @uodclimbing and make sure to turn on post notifications!

You can also contact us via email at climbing@derbyunion.co.uk with any questions you may have!



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