Hello and welcome to Purple Climbing. My name is Mark and I am an indoor climbing instructor and coach, holding Indoor Climbing Assistant and Climbing Wall Instructor and Foundation Coach qualifications from Mountain Training. I regularly climb outdoors and am working towards the Rock Climbing Instructor qualification.

I've started to put together a few notes to help you with your climbing.

First up is Sport Climbing 101 designed to help indoor lead climbers who want to head outdoors.