Climbing Escalade Canada offers coach training through the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP), Canada’s standard for coach education, with two contexts: Community Initiation and Competition Introduction.
Become a coach
Community Initiation
Community Initiation is for coaches who work with new and entry-level climbers being introduced to the sport, at the Active Start, FUNdamentals, and Active for Life stages of long-term development. The coach’s role is to provide a fun, safe environment and teach fundamental climbing skills.
This one-day workshop takes place in a climbing gym. Coaches will learn to:
- Identify their role as a community coach.
- Express their coaching philosophy.
- Provide a safe, appropriate, inclusive, and positive learning environment for all participants.
- Coach games and activities in a way that suits and includes all participants.
- Teach the basic skills of climbing.
Competition Introduction
Competition Introduction is for coaches who work with competitive climbers moving from the FUNdamentals stage to the Learn to Train and Train to Train stages of long-term development.
This two-day workshop takes place in a climbing gym. Coaches will learn to:
- Identify their role as a competition coach.
- Understand the principles of teaching and learning.
- Take different approaches to teaching skills.
- Make interventions that promote learning.
- Identify the basic rules of climbing.
- Coach the basic skills of climbing.
- Detect and correct performance errors.
- Plan and modify an activity.
The NCCP Guide for PTSOs, Learning Facilitators information, and the Coach Certification Evaluation Guide are available in Resources.
Requirements
Coaches attending CEC events must complete CEC’s Safe Sport requirements. See Resources for the current list.
CEC also recommends these Coaching Association of Canada courses:
- Making Head Way in Sport
- Safe Sport Training
- Mental Health in Sport
- NCCP Making Ethical Decisions
Coaches toolbox
The Coaches Toolbox explores the tools coaches use to plan, monitor, track, and assess athletes, with articles on the purpose of each tool and how to use it. Topics include yearly training plans, individual performance plans, performance data collection for Boulder and Lead, and technical and tactical development.
Coaches will also find the Long-Term Athlete Development model and Athlete Development Matrix useful for planning programs.