Need To Know - Pedagogy Of Climbing

Freeclimbing is a sport as any other. You can do it for fitness and as leisure activity.

Where is the connection between climbing and pedagogical concepts?

Climbing is thought of as adventure-sport. And this is the point, that makes this sport a pedagogical and therapeutical usefull instrument. “Experience” plays a decicive role in modern pedagogy.

Climbing contains different aspects of experience: reliance, liability and others. Climbing up und beeing lowered back down aren’t the only possibilities to gain experience on a climbing wall. In most instances it is unknown, that a large variety of games and exercises can be done on a climbing wall, which contain specific advancement or are suitable for different aspects like prevention
                                                                  of violence etc..

Possibilities for encouragement:

Cognitive aspects:

• Encouragement of skills for problem solving
• Encouragement of concentration
• Encouragement of decision-making and responsibility

Emotional- affective aspects:

• Learn to handle fear
• Experience of mutual reliance
• Experience of success
• Learn to deal with the own mental and physical limits

Sensual aspects:

• Improvement of tactile sense through grabing different holds and surfaces
• Improvement of vestibular sense
• Improvement of kinaesthetical sense
• Improvement of selfcognition/ development of body scheme

Motorical aspects

• Increased muscle tone
• Improved eye-hand-coordination
• Improved crativity in movement
• Awareness of movement
• Learning of controlled and calm

Social aspects

• Experience of self-dependency
• Experience liability for others
• Experience teamwork
•  Experience sport with others 

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