Types of Courses

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What kinds of courses does Flash Foxy Education offer?

So many! The Flash Foxy Education program is designed to meet you where you’re at and help you gain the skills you need to understand risk and be a responsible climbing partner from your first outdoor climbs to ascending the big walls of your dreams!

*Please note, all courses may not be currently available.

BEGINNER TO BADDIE BOULDERING

3-MONTHLY SESSIONS

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INDOOR BOULDERING SERIES FOR NEWER CLIMBERS LOOKING TO BUILD COMMUNITY!

1-DAY COURSE

Top Rope Climbing 101

  • Flash Foxy's Top Rope Climbing 101 course is great for everyone from first-timers to experienced indoor climbers. Top roping is one of the most accessible forms of climbing, and this course will give you all the tools you need to get started or build on the knowledge you already have. We’ll cover basic outdoors skills, technical systems, and provide tips and tricks to help you have the best outdoor climbing experience possible. This program focuses on providing students with maximum active climbing time with minimal ground-school instruction.

  • None, beginners welcome!

YOUR FIRST TIME CLIMBING OUTDOORS!

1-DAY COURSE

Top Rope Climbing 201

  • Flash Foxy’s Top Rope Climbing 201 course is great for everyone from new climbers to experienced indoor climbers. Top roping is one of the most accessible forms of climbing, and this course will give you all the tools you need to build your own anchors and climb on them! We’ll focus on understanding materials and what to look for when building strong anchors for top roping. We'll also cover top rope belay techniques with an emphasis on assisted breaking devices.

  • Some climbing experience (indoors or outdoors) is recommended but not required

BELAYING & CLEANING BOLTED ANCHORS

2-DAY COURSE

Sport Climbing 101

  • Flash Foxy's Sport Climbing 101 course covers all the skills you’ll need to break into outdoor sport climbing! We'll focus on essential skills like lead belaying with both tube devices and assisted breaking devices, and lead climbing in a low-risk mock setting. Learn basic anchor building techniques to help you get up and down routes at your local sport climbing crag. We’ll focus on understanding materials and what to look for when building strong anchors.

  • Must know how to belay someone top rope climbing. Participants have top roped a minimum of five climbs on at least two separate occasions (indoors or outdoors). Must be able to comfortably top rope 5.9 indoors or 5.6 at the course venue.

LEARN TO LEAD & BOLTED ANCHOR BASICS

2-DAY COURSE

Sport Climbing 102

PRACTICE FALLING, CATCHING, & STICK CLIPPING!

  • Flash Foxy's Sport Climbing 102 course covers all the skills you need to get comfortable sport climbing outdoors! We'll learn techniques for giving good catches to partners of varied sizes, practice techniques for falling, and provide crucial tips for how the heck to use a stick clip. You will have time to practice essential skills like belaying and lead climbing in a low-risk mock setting, and our instructors will equip you with the skills you need to continue your practice even after the course. Ultimately, mock leading isn’t the real thing so we’ll also make sure you have the knowledge you need to break into live leading when you’re ready.

  • Must know how to belay someone lead climbing. Must have some experience sport climbing (indoors or outdoors), like Flash Foxy's Sport Climbing 101 or an indoor Learn to Lead class. Participants have top roped a minimum of ten climbs on at least three separate occasions (indoors or outdoors). Must be able to comfortably top rope 5.9 indoors or 5.6 at the course venue.

2-DAY COURSE

Sport Climbing 201

  • Flash Foxy's Sport Climbing 201 course addresses falling directly to help improve commitment for sport climbers. Participants start with progressive falling practice followed by movement, breathing, resting, and body/mind awareness exercises. Participants will leave understanding how to take appropriate risks and how to commit to those risks. Participants will practice the following skills during this course: fall properly, give a dynamic (cushioned) belay, break a climb into smaller risk events, assess risk effectively, distinguish between no- and yes-fall zones, engage no- and yes-fall zones appropriately, make appropriate risk decisions, improve body/mind awareness, rest effectively, improve breathing, create flow and momentum, deal with climbing stress, commit more deliberately, reduce fear, and more!

  • Must know how to belay someone lead climbing. Must be able to comfortably top rope 5.9 (at course venue). Some experience lead climbing, indoors or outdoors, is required. Participants have led a minimum of five climbs on at least two separate occasions (indoors or outdoors).

FALLING & COMMITMENT

1-DAY COURSE

ANCHORS 101

  • Flash Foxy’s Anchors 101 course is great for any level of climber who wants to gain independence as a climber with a thorough understanding of risk management. Top roping is one of the most accessible forms of climbing, and this course will give you all the tools you need to build your own anchors for top roping on bolted anchors. We’ll focus on understanding materials and what to look for when building strong anchors for top roping in a variety of situations. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared to spend time hanging in your harness!

  • Must know how to belay somone top rope climbing.

BOLTED BASICS

1-DAY COURSE

ANCHORS 201

BEYOND BOLTS - BUILDING REGIONALLY SPECIFIC TRADITIONAL TOP ROPE ANCHORS

  • Flash Foxy’s Anchors 201 course covers essential anchoring techniques for setting up top rope climbs at your favorite sport or trad climbing area. This course gives you all the tools you need to build and clean a wide variety of anchors using combinations of bolts, traditional protection such as stoppers and cams, and by using a static line with terrain features like boulders and trees. This is a skills intensive course, and we’ll focus on learning fundamentals on the ground, then practicing those skills in a low-risk vertical setting with review and feedback from our instructors. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared to spend time hanging in your harness!

  • Must know how to belay somone top rope climbing. Must have some knowledge of building anchors on bolts, for example Flash Foxy's Anchors 101, Top Rope Climbing 201, Sport Climbing 102, or Trad Climbing 101 course.

2-DAY COURSE

TRAD CLIMBING 101

HOW GEAR WORKS, LEAD BELAY TECHNIQUES, & BOLTED ANCHOR BASICS

  • Flash Foxy’s Trad Climbing 101 course equips climbers with the skills they need to explore the adventurous practice and spirit of traditional climbing whether you're new to the craft or trying to refine the skills you already have. We’ll cover the essentials like learning how to place stoppers and cams, and we’ll also have candid conversations about risk and how to manage it when the variables start to add up. We'll practice lead belay techniques on tube-style and assisted breaking belay devices, and finish up with the basics of building and cleaning anchors on bolts. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared to spend time hanging in your harness!

  • Must know how to belay someone on top rope. Participants have top-roped a minimum of ten climbs on at least three separate occasions (indoor or outdoors). Experience sport climbing (indoors or outdoors) and/or following trad climbs is helpful but not required.

2-DAY COURSE

TRAD CLIMBING 102

  • Flash Foxy’s Trad Climbing 102 course is for climbers who are familiar with the technical skills required for placing traditional climbing gear and want to practice essential skills like belaying and lead climbing in a low-risk mock setting. Instructors will provide live feedback on gear placements and belay techniques. We’ll also cover setting and cleaning anchors, be it on bolts, with traditional protection such as stoppers and cams, or by using a static line with terrain features like boulders and trees. You will have the opportunity to build anchors and climb on them during this course!

  • Must know how to belay someone lead climbing. Must have some experience placing traditional climbing gear, for example in Flash Foxy's Trad Climbing 101 course. Participants have top roped a minimum of ten climbs on at least three separate occasions (indoors or outdoors). Must be able to comfortably top rope 5.9 indoors or 5.6 at the course venue.

MOCK LEADING & COMPLEX TRAD ANCHORS

2-DAY COURSE

TRAD CLIMBING 201

  • This training addresses falling directly to help improve commitment. Participants start with progressive falling practice followed by movement, breathing, resting, and body/mind awareness exercises. Participants will leave understanding how to take appropriate risks and how to commit to those risks. Participants will practice the following skills during this course: fall properly, give a dynamic (cushioned) belay, break a climb into smaller risk events, assess risk effectively, distinguish between no- and yes-fall zones, engage no- and yes-fall zones appropriately, make appropriate risk decisions, improve body/mind awareness, rest effectively, improve breathing, create flow and momentum, deal with climbing stress, commit more deliberately, reduce fear, and more!

  • Must be able to comfortably top rope 5.9 (at course venue). Must know how to lead belay. Some experience leading traditional climbs is required. Participants have led a minimum of five climbs on at least two separate occasions.

FALLING & COMMITMENT

1-DAY COURSE

Rescue Skills 101

  • Flash Foxy’s Rescue Skills 101 course helps you prepare for those inevitable mishaps at the crag, and how to extricate you and your climbing partners from them so you don’t have to call for a rescue. We’ll cover basic methods of ascending a rope to help a climber, assisting a climber through a crux from both above or below, taking over a belay from someone else, and simple rappel techniques. We'll use scenarios to explore improvised solutions and best practices, instead of just teaching a few cookie-cutter drills that might not apply in the real world, and you’ll leave with a solid set of tools to handle most situations that could happen at a crag. This is a skills intensive course, and we’ll focus on learning fundamentals on the ground, then practicing those skills in a low-risk vertical setting with review and feedback from our instructors. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared to spend time hanging in your harness!

  • Must know how to belay someone on top rope. Some experience top rope climbing, indoors or outdoors is required.

SINGLE PITCH TERRAIN

2-DAY COURSE

Multi-pitch 101

  • Flash Foxy’s Multi-pitch 101 course equips climbers with the know-how to climb and descend from routes longer than one rope-length. This course covers essentials like building multi-pitch anchors, taking the roles of leader and follower, rappelling from a multi-pitch route, staying safe and organized during transitions at anchors, and solving basic problems on routes. Our instructors will provide low-risk environments for practice and review the skills you need to continue your practice after the course. We’ll also discuss navigation, what to bring, and how to plan for your adventures. This is a skills-intensive course, and we’ll focus on learning fundamentals on the ground, then practicing those skills in a low-risk vertical setting with review and feedback from our instructors. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared with comfortable but capable shoes!

  • Must know how to belay someone lead climbing. Participants have top roped a minimum of ten climbs on at least three separate occasions (indoors or outdoors). Must be able to comfortably top rope 5.9 indoors or 5.6 at the course venue. Some experience lead climbing or mock leading, like in Flash Foxy's Sport Climbing 101-102 or Trad Climbing 101-102, is required.

INTRO TO MULTI-PITCH CLIMBING

2-DAY COURSE

Multi-pitch 201

TRANSITIONS, BELAY TECHNIQUES, & RESCUE ESSENTIALS

  • Have you started climbing multipitch routes, but aren't sure how to speed up and accomplish bigger objectives? Tired of hiking out in the dark? Flash Foxy's Multi-pitch 201 course is designed to clean up your systems, speed up your transitions, and cut out unnecessary steps, while maximizing security and minimizing risk. We'll discuss route planning, different strategies based on team composition and objectives, and spend a lot of time practicing new skills for the way up, as well as rappelling down. Bring your climbing partner, so you can dial in your systems together!

  • Must know how to belay someone lead-climbing. Some multi-pitch climbing experience, as a leader or a follower, or in Flash Foxy's Multi-pitch 101 course, is required.

2-DAY COURSE

TRAD CLIMBING 301

  • Flash Foxy's Trad Climbing 301 course will cover the essential skills for ascending walls that are too hard to climb without aid - that's placing and pulling up on gear, rather than making upward progress with just our hands and feet. We'll go through basics of aid climbing with and without ladders, as well as techniques for "jugging" or ascending a fixed rope. This course will have ample time for students to practice aid climbing with instructor feedback.

  • Must know how to belay someone lead-climbing. Some experience with trad gear - for example on of Flash Foxy's Trad Climbing 101-301 courses is required.

INTRO TO AID CLIMBING

2-DAY COURSE

TRAD CLIMBING 302

  • Have you always gazed up at the tall walls of places like Yosemite Valley, and wondered how to climb them? This clinic will cover the essential skills for ascending walls that are too hard to climb without aid - that's placing and pulling up on gear, rather than making upward progress with just our hands and feet. We'll go through basics of aid climbing with and without ladders, "jugging" or ascending a fixed rope, big wall anchors, hauling your food and overnight gear in a haul bag, as well as packing and planning for multiple days on a wall.

  • Must know how to belay someone lead-climbing. Some experience with trad gear - for example on of Flash Foxy's Trad Climbing 101-301 courses is required.

INTRO TO BIG WALL CLIMBING