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 2023/2024, we hope to compete in the Midlands University Climbing Competition and BUCs. We also hope to take a group of climbers to the ClimbingWorks International Festival for the Fun Climb session, which involves fancy dress and some wacky boulder problems!

This year, we have a weekly coaching plan and we will have training sessions outside the usual club sessions with a climbing coach to help us develop and improve. We also have a number of training guides and drills for our members to access!

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Upcoming Events

Climbing Goes To The Roaches!
The Roaches
We're going to The Roaches!

Detailed information obout 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 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!



Climbing Club Halloween Event 2022