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Compare gyms in Melbourne to Europe 31-Jan-2008 At 6:33:40 PM belayslave

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On 31/01/2008 devlin66 wrote:
>Stuey,
>I agree. Jackie Godoffe held a route setting course here recently and
>only four people turned up and one of those was from NZ. So obviosuly there
>is a shortage of qualified route setters. I'm am sure if there was more
>demand for professional route setters then the numbers would increase who
>are trained and qualified. As you said any monkey can screw holds onto
>a wall but it takes a bit training and experience to get good consistent
>setting. Even the most experienced setters in the world would tell you
>there is still lots to learn.

Sorry to nit pick, but we had 8 participants attend that course in full. Nearly all successfully
completed the course, and are now registered as Aspirant Route Setters with IFSC - this means
they're able to in time, with the appropriate experience at World Cup Events, become fully qualified
World Cup Standard route setters.

We have in Australia so many extremely talented route setters,
many who've already had a great deal of experience in route setting internationally. SICG is lucky to
have a crew of great route setters, some regular setters each week, some just on the odd occasion,
but they do have a good turn over of routes, without the need i think for a full-time route setting
appointment.

There is intention to hold another 1 or 2 courses in 2008. There are already enough particpants putting
there hand up for 1 course from those who could not make the date of last years. Contact SCA if
you're interested.