I have been upgraded to a Sport Climbing Category II instructor. Yay! With this upgrade, I can now conduct Wall Supervisor Course and Instructor Training Course (ITC), while a Cateogory I instructor only conducts Sport Climbing Level 1 & 2 courses.

Last weekend, I co-conducted my first ITC course (as a Category II instructor) with Kim Boon, Chee Mun & Philip.

What exactly do you learn in the ITC?  Here it is:

1. Set up anchors, practice multi-pitch climb

2. Setup a releasable Abseil line with a belay rope

3. Introduce to methods on escaping from system

4. Classroom session on anchors, knots, method of instructions, risk assessment management and etc

Group photo of ITC (10/07) participants

With Philip (aka “andy lau” 🙂 )