Build Better Rounds

Build Better Rounds is a two day, hands-on educational experience designed to provide setters with comprehensive resources to create a field of play for competitors of any ability level. In this clinic, we will discuss different strategies and concepts for mapping out the elements of rounds that challenge climbers, when and how to employ them. 

Have you ever wondered how hard a move should be for your field? Have you thought about the visual appeal of your set of climbs for a live stream? Have you been stumped by finding the level of your competitors? Have you felt the frustration of having a round be too hard or too easy for a field of competitors despite a solid setting week and terrific effort from all the setters? Do you ever just want more conceptual resources for how to construct a round of competitive climbs?

If you answered yes to any of these experiences, then this clinic is perfect for you!

Clinic outline:

Day 1 9am-5pm 

  • Introduce 3 key concepts that we’ll use throughout the clinic and how to apply them to competition rounds for Lead/TR or Bouldering.
  • Set practice boulders making use of these concepts, creating a whole youth round
  • Forerun, edit our practice round and debrief

Day 2. 9am-7pm

  • Divide into  teams and create new rounds of youth climbs using the concepts from day one
  • The end of the day involves local youth team members coming in and climbing on the rounds we have created so setters can see first hand how their decisions worked out and cement the learning process. There will be a group debrief and discussion for the final 30 minutes of day 2.

Clinic will be coached by Blake Green USAC L4 routesetter & Chris Moyle USAC L4 routesetter

  • 2 day Bouldering education clinic
  • Dec 19/20 (thurs/friday) 
  • 12 person capacity
  • 2 x USAC L4 Routesetters. 
  • $495 pp
  • Goat Climbing Gym
  • 18+
  • No refunds
  • Personal protective equipment must be worn during setting periods. (Eye protection)
  • Equipment not provided.