1. Climbing or bouldering independently outside training sessions
2. Representative consent and parent statement
3. Safe sports climate

Climbing Club Safety

Within the Climbing Club, there is next to social safety physical safety also comes first. After all, climbing remains a risk sport and a small mistake can have serious consequences. In climbing, although it is an individualistic sport, you always form a team where one person secures and one person climbs. In this way, you are actually jointly responsible for each other's safety. Before you climb, always feed the partner check out and depending on your age, you will have additional checks by one of our trainers. Our trainers are trained in accordance with the guidelines of the Dutch Climbing and Mountaineering Association (NKBV). This means that they are officially trained according to the so-called Sport Qualification Structure drawn up by NOC*NSF. We strive to train trainers to become at least Sports Climbing Counselor Indoor Toprope and Sport Climbing Trainer 2 (local trainer). The head coaches follow a longer course to become a minimum Sports Climbing Instructor Indoor Toprope or Sports Climbing Trainer 3 (regional trainer/local selection trainer).

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New to the Climbing Club? Then, together with the trainer, you will first go through a training program where you will work on your own skill level. Here we distinguish 2 levels:

  1. Indoor Toprope Climbing
  2. Indoor Pre-climbing

The child is only fully educated once all competencies have been mastered and the exam time is assessed as positive by one of the trainers. After that, according to the rules of the CN label system training and climbing at Mountain Network.

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1. Climbing or bouldering independently outside of training.


A Climbing Clubber can, if the membership allows, climb or bouldering extra outside the training sessions. The child can only climb with us independently if the conditions below are met.

Bouldering

  • Children under the age of 12 are under the direct supervision of a parent or guardian.
  • Young people aged 12 to 18 are allowed to boulder independently.

Toprope Climbing

  • Children under 14 are only allowed to climb under the supervision of an adult parent/supervisor, who has proven climbing and securing experience themselves, with the parent/supervisor providing security.
  • Children at the Climbing Club with a blue or white label and a T-sticker can climb and secure independently, unsupervised.

For climbing

  • Children under 16 may only secure a front climber (and also pre-climb themselves) under the supervision of an adult parent/supervisor who has proven pre-climbing experience.
  • Children at the Mountain Club with a white label and a V sticker can secure a front climber independently, unsupervised.

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2. Representative consent and parent statement

By registering your child at the Climbing Club, you consent to the children you sign up to participate in climbing, securing and related activities in accordance with the applicable SVK label system. Read the SVK label system and the climbing Club safety rules carefully and discuss them with the registered children. Children/youth and, if applicable, their supervisors are expected to comply with the CN label system, which describes what children/youth can and cannot do for each (age) category and level of competence. As soon as your child meets the conditions of the CN label system (age/competence), he or she will secure independently, be secured independently by other children and may (pre) climb on (artificial) climbing walls.

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Legal representative gives permission and agrees to:

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3. Safe sports climate

At the Climbing Club, we attach great importance to a safe and positive sports climate. You can read more about this via this link.