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Posted by FMD on July 4, 2007 at 4:46:37 pm EDT
In reply to Beginning climbing posted by Climbing (Guest) on July 4, 2007 at 3:14:33 am EDT

Tom D said:

I used to teach scuba diving-lessons were mandatory to get certified so you could buy air. With climbing, you don't have that "gatekeeper" so you could just buy whatever you want and have a go at it, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it-too easy to get hurt.

TOM D I am also a SCUBA instructor with the YMCA and I often thought about certifications with climbing. I wonder how hard it would be to set up a training guideline to become "certified" in order to go buy climbing gear or to climb in a Nat'l or State park. If you remember back in the 80s when OSHA wanted to regulate the SCUBA industry, all of the training organizations got together and created a protocal for OW training and it works very well today and it kept the OSHA agency away from regulating the SCUBA industry. Why not mirror something along those guidelines from say the AMGA TRSM courses. Just some thoughts.

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