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Recreational Climbing Team

Our Recreational Climbing Team is designed for kids ages 10-16 that are strong climbers and/or have a desire to become better climbers.

This team provides a great environment for those who are both interested in learning more and are motivated to become even better, more technical climbers, without competition being mandatory. Used as a stepping stone to our Competitive Climbing Team, structured sessions consist of a substantial warm up, climbing drills to focus on different techniques and build strength, group workouts, and team building activities.

These teams are guaranteed to introduce kids to others with their same level of interest and form lasting relationships within our young climbing community.

If you have any questions or would like to sign up for this program please contact us at johnd@centralrockgym.com.

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Age Range

10-16 years old

We have taken on motivated 9 year olds in the past, but they would have to learn how to belay on Climbing Club and be comfortable belaying before moving up to Rec Team.

When

Tuesday, Thursday: 4pm-6pm

Saturday, Sunday: 9am-11am

Climbers can opt to sign up for a program that practices 1-3 times/week

 

Pricing

$140-230

1x/week: $140/month

2x/week: $185/month

3x/week: $230/month

Program Includes

Bouldering and Top Rope Climbing

Warm Up Exercises

Technique lessons

Group games and team building activities

Climbing gear rental

CRG Membership (with monthly program)

SCHEDULE

Fall Season: mostly bouldering

Spring Season: mostly top roping

This schedule will ensure that kids who eventually advance to the Competitive Team will be following the same pattern as the climbing competitions.

Parent Options

Parents have the option to either stay and hang out in one of our lounges or head out for the 2 hours of practice.
Parents are able to add on a $30 charge per month to use the fitness equipment during practice, or purchase a $10 fitness area pass per visit.

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FAQs

  • Advanced registration is required! Please email johnd@centralrockgym.com to inquire about availability.
  • All participants need the Central Rock Gym Worcester Participation Agreement, Bouldering Orientation Form, and Auto Belay Orientation Form. Fill these out ahead of time HERE to save time! All three forms are required for kids to climb.

A regular membership is included when a child signs up for one of our youth programs, so you can bring them in as often as they want to outside of their weekly scheduled Climbing Club session. You would just have to be the supervisor at that point.

What they can do during a free climb session depends on your certifications.

If you don’t know how to belay yet, you can always use the belay class that is on your child’s membership (that they are too young to take anyway) and learn how to belay them up the tall walls. If that’s not something that interests you, your child would still be able to boulder on the short walls as well as use the auto belays to get up some of the taller walls. You would just need to receive our auto belay orientation in order to know what to know how to clip them in properly.

Kids must be at least 13 years old in order for a parent to drop them off to hang out and climb by themselves.

Yes! We understand that life happens and you won’t be able to make it to every class every single week. Make ups are allowed on the other days we offer the program, we just ask that you communicate with us ahead of time that you will be coming a different day than usual so we can staff accordingly.

Yes, we offer our youth teams year round. We only require a month-to-month commitment, so kids can join and drop as it fits their schedules. We have some kids who have been doing this program for the past 3 years straight through, and we have kids that just join on through the winter months as their activity between fall and spring sports.