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Why are the gyms focussing on toprope? 31-Jan-2008 At 7:00:39 PM dreamingof8a

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On 31/01/2008 Sabu wrote:
>On 31/01/2008 dreamingof8a wrote:
>>On 30/01/2008 Sabu wrote:
>>>Gyms focus on toprope because you can't teach a group of 30 school kids
>>>how to lead in 15 minutes. Gyms here i believe are designed to give
>people
>>>a taste of climbing, these are generally once off type customers and
>>only
>>>a few are regulars.
>>
>>Well, you can actually. I've seen it. Apart from that, you don't have
>>to. You need one or two of the teachers to set up the topropes and done.
> 1) i would not trust a teacher who knows little/nothing about climbing
>to set up a top rope, and geting staff to set up 1 or 2 topropes for a
>groups of 30 kids is a waste of time and will make the entire process (which
>is very slow anyway) much slower.

With "teacher" I meant instructor, sorry for using the wrong word. Obviously someone who knows what they're doing!

I just know that it works in gyms I've seen. And I also said that it is good to have maybe one wall/area with topropes - but that shouldn't be the main area with routes 15 and above