Methods of teaching climbing and hanging

Students can climb on floor/ ground, on a rope, ladder, wall bars, beam and rod. When hanging students should alternate their hands. Exercises on floor or ground are performed with hands and legs.

Imitating the movements of certain animals and creatures (crab, spider, lame fox and bear) are often used in warm-up activities.

Being able to hang on a rope or wall presupposes enough physical strength and skills. First, these exercises should be performed on wall bars then on a rope. Going to ‘inchworm’ up the rope using the break and squat technique should be taught. The number of groups depends on the number of ropes. Under ropes mats can be used.  Teaching our students to climb can be started when we have become sure that students have already learned to support themselves with bended arms. They are required to climb up a rope as soon as they have practised it enough. We must be careful so that our students will not simply slide down the rope as their hands and palms get easily hurt and burnt.

If there is an opportunity students are made to practise climbing outdoors. If climbing is performed on several devices horizontally, transversely, or upward and downward this technique is the so called ‘migratory climbing’.