CLINICS
Flash Foxy Trad Fest • NORTH CONWAY • Sept 27-29, 2024
Schedule is always subject to change. All programs run rain-or-shine. No refunds.
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All clinics are 6 hrs and have a maximum of 12 participants.
Clinics are reserved for registered festival participants. Clinic registration link will be sent via Eventbrite on August 15th. Early bird clinic registration will open August 14th.
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There is a $85 registration fee for 1-day clinics and a $170 registration fee for 2-day clinics.
Registration link will be sent directly to all festival participants via Eventbrite.
Clinic registration opens August 15! Early Bird clinic registration opens August 14.
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All location listings are tentative and subject to change day-of. If you have an accessibility concern related to venue locations please email events@flashfoxy.com after registering for your clinic and we will work with you to see if the clinic can be held at a venue that meets your accessibility needs. If we are unable to accommodate your needs we will gladly refund the clinic registration fee.
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Climbing gear is provided for all clinics. There will be climbing harness, shoe and helmet demos available. If you have any gear that you would like to ask questions about/practice with at your clinic, feel free to bring it!
All clinics are run in partnership with International Mountain Climbing School (IMCS).
CLINIC SCHEDULE
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Intro to Trad
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Follower's Flow
Trad for Sport Climbers
Crack Flow
Multipitch Magic
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Movement Tactics - Bouldering
How to Climb Efficiently!
Jamming with Janet
All About Trad Anchors
Rescue Skills - Single Pitch
2-day Clinic
with Cindy Su (she/her) presented by Flash Foxy Education
Climber Requirements: Must know how to belay someone on top rope. Any climbing experience, top roping, bouldering, sport climbing (indoors or outdoors) and/or following trad climbs is strongly recommended. Experience lead belaying is strongly recommended.
This Intro to Trad Climbing clinic 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. Our instructors will provide low-risk environments for practice and review the skills you need to continue your practice after the course. Plus tips on how to go live when you’re ready!
Intro to Trad
Saturday Clinic
with Marian Perez (they/she) presented by Flash Foxy Education
Climber Requirements: Must know how to belay on top rope. Some experience top-roping indoors or outdoors is required.
This clinic is for climbers who want to be supportive belayers and competent followers on trad climbs. We’ll talk about strategies for removing gear, re-racking, and giving a good catch. Learn to evaluate risk and ask informed questions about the terrain and style of climbing you are participating in. Just because you’re not leading the climb doesn’t mean you’re not a huge part of the team!
Follower’s Flow
Saturday Clinic - SOLD OUT
Trad For Sport Climbers
with Majka Burhardt (she/her) presented by Patagonia
Climber Requirements: Must know how to belay someone lead-climbing. Some experience leading sport climbs, indoors or outdoors, is required.
This clinic is for experienced sport climbers who are ready to venture away from bolted cliffs and learn the technical skills to transition to traditional climbing! 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. Our instructors will provide low-risk environments for practice and review the skills you need to continue your practice after the course. Maybe we’ll even convince you that trad can be less scary than sport climbing!
Saturday Clinic
with Vikki Weldon (she/her) presented by Arc’teryx
Climber Requirements: Some previous crack climbing experience is required. Must know how to belay someone lead climbing. Comfortably climb 5.9 trad, or above. Some experience lead climbing (trad or sport) is recommended, but not required.
You know the basics of crack climbing technique. You've plugged the gear, you've found the jams, but climbing that crack feels like an uphill battle. Spend the day focused on movement skills that will help you find some flow in trad-land. We will focus on body positioning, resting, and a myriad of other techniques that will help you gain confidence in your crack climbing.
Crack Flow
Saturday Clinic
with Sean Taft-Morales (they/them) presented by Flash Foxy Education
Climber Requirements: Must know how to belay someone lead-climbing. Single-pitch trad climbing experience, as a leader or follower, is highly recommended.
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? Join us for a jam packed clinic 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!
Multipitch magic
Sunday Clinic
Movement Tactics - bouldering
with Ady Wright (she/her) presented by La Sportiva
Climber Requirements: Comfortably climb V3 or above indoors.
This clinic aims to provide movement techniques and mental goals for obstacles many climbers face. Ady’s clinics focus on using the body and strength that you have to climb more efficiently. She’ll throw a lot of technique and climbing theory at you which can be applied wherever it feels useful - both on boulder problems during the clinic and on your longer routes later too. Everyone's proportions are different which means balancing is different for each of us on the wall. Ady will help you learn to use your proportions to put your sticky rubber to work.
Sunday Clinic
with Nikki Smith (she/her) presented by Scarpa
Climber Requirements: Some experience trad climbing, leading or following, and a solid understanding of the uses of and proper placement of passive (nuts) and active protection (cams) is required.
This All About Trad Anchors clinic is for the novice trad climber or anyone who wants a refresher on their skills. Building an anchor is like solving a puzzle. You’ll learn how to construct anchors in numerous ways that are both safe and efficient. We’ll go over the principles to safely build and evaluate trad anchors; how to construct them in both top rope and multi-pitch terrain; learn knots and hitches used for anchor building; and much more! This clinic will be taught on the ground to maximize the amount of content covered but please bring harness, helmet, and any trad gear you have to practice with.
All About Trad Anchors
Sunday Clinic
Rescue Skills - Single Pitch
with Sean Taft-Morales (they/them) presented by Flash Foxy Education
Climber Requirements: Must know how to belay on top rope. Some experience top-roping indoors or outdoors is required.
This clinic 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.
Sunday Clinic - SOLD OUT
with Abby Dione (she/her) presented by Adidas TERREX
Climber Requirements: Must know how to belay someone climbing on top-rope. Some lead climbing experience, either indoor or outdoor, is useful but not at all required. This clinic is appropriate for any climber at any phase in their climbing.
Proper gear placement, solid body positioning, and a strong breath connection are the building blocks of efficient climbing movement. Learn the essential skills necessary to move smoothly through the varied rock types of North Conway. The climbing is varied, unique, and thought-provoking. In this 6 hour clinic, you will get to put the tips and tricks that you learn into effect on the wall all while receiving helpful feedback.
How to Climb Efficiently!
Sunday Clinic - SOLD OUT
with Janet Wilkinson (she/her) presented by Flash Foxy Education
Climber Requirements: Must know how to belay on top rope. Some experience lead climbing (trad or sport) is recommended, but not required.
Join North Conway local, Janet Wilkinson, for a day of practicing about hand jams, fist jams, foot jams and strawberry jams! (Jk about the strawberry jam, but you could get some at the local farm stand on your way to the crag.) What’s a finger-lock and do you need a key to open it?? How do you avoid placing gear in all the good hand spots?? This clinic will give you tips and techniques for getting up those gorgeous granite cracks that you can’t help but oogle at from the ground.