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

I run weekend childrens climbing sessions at Abingdon Sports and Leisure within Abingdon School, Oxfordshire.

I also work at Brookes Climb at Brookes Sport, Headington, Oxford where I run NICAS sessions as well as learn to lead courses.

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.