Need To Know - School Sport

Climbing as school sport?

Climbing is a basic form of human movement and a basic desire in adolescence. Depending on situation and task, climbing can have several access and interpretation possibilities. This sport cannot only train motional abilities and skills for a lifelong sportive activity, but also gives the chance to work on educational tasks. Body- and movement related climbing action gives the possibility for the approach to four different, but mutual spheres:

Motional sphere:
Basic and special climbing techniques are the basis for the development of strength, coordination (especially balance) and cardiovascular capacity. Different skills are required and trained depending on personal qualification, technical competence and profile of the route.

Psychological-physical sphere:
Significant for this sphere is the experience of exceeding limits, coping with risky situations and experiencing feelings of sensation. The effects are alternating emotions: incertitude – safety, joy – fear. Climbing requires mental skills like courage, willpower, self-confidence, concentration and resoluteness. On the other hand it also encourages the confidence in the own skills and self-respect. Additionally, climbing in the open nature can be the start to an emotionally sustainable relation to natural living and moving space.
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Social-communicational sphere:
Acting with joint efforts and finding a basis in understanding each other through exchange of ideas and comprehension, can help to encourage communication and improve social interaction in general.

Responsibility- ethical sphere:
To take over responsibility is required very often in climbing routine (check of material and knots, partner belay, accept the blocking of rocks etc.). Directness and straightforwardness of these situations convey the practical side of responsibility to children and youngsters. HANS JONAS postulated: ‚Act in a way that the effects of your action are reconcilable’. Climbing can get the awareness across to adolescents, that each (not) acting has consequences, for which you have to take over responsibility.
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