Competition Team Training Dates

If you are interested in joining us for these training dates, please leave your name on reception.

Training and strength workshop - Friday 11th January
Balance workshop - Friday 25th January
Trust workshop - Friday 8th February
Footwork workshop - Friday 22nd February
Confidence workshop - Friday 7th March

The workshop will last approx 1 hour, this leaves plenty of time for individual climbing time, the sessions will start at 6pm. If you come to the 5pm - 7pm Geckos session then this will be the last hour of your session. If you come at 6pm then you can climb until 8pm. It will cost the same as your normal Geckos session.

The workshops will be run by Paul and will be very active training sessions. Every 2 weeks there will be a new workshop, however each workshop is ongoing and you can use what you've learnt when youre not training with Paul.

On the weeks in between workshop training sessions, Paul will be setting a designated route for our Climbing Team to attempt and work out together ask at reception for details of the problem.

JUNIOR CLIMBING COMPETITION RESULTS!

On Saturday 24th November Rope Race hosted a junior climbing competition. The competition was a great success and all the staff at Rope Race would like to say huge big well done to all the competitors who climbed excellently and made the whole day brilliant fun!

There were 3 groups; 7 - 9 year olds, 10 - 12 year olds and 13 - 15 year olds.


The results for the 7 - 9 year olds category are -

1st place - Elissa Bryant (Rope Race) with 472 points

2nd Place - Lucy Brown (Rochdale) with 464 points

3rd place - Fraser Wadsworth (Rope Race) with 429 points

4th place - William Kay (Stockport Grammar) with 417 points

5th place - Ashleigh Brown (Rochdale) with 369 points



The results for the 10 - 12 girls category are -

1st Place - Olivia Ratcliffe (Rochdale) with 360 points

2nd place - Jennifer Wood (Rope Race) with 360 points

3rd place - Ellie Cadwallader (Rochdale) with 360 points

4th place - Shelley Pickles (Rope Race) with 357 points

5th place - Ellen Downs (Rope Race) with 333 points

6th place - Courtney McGreavy (Rochdale) with 330 points

7th place - Cornelia McNeff (Rope Race) with 311 points

(There was a climb off for 2nd and 3rd place which Rope Race's Jennifer Wood won! Congratulations!)



The results for 10 - 12 year old boys are -

1st place - Randy Roby (Rochdale) with 360 points

2nd place - Jacob Murray (Rope Race) with 360 points

3rd Place - Chris Moore (Rope Race) with 345 points

4th place - Luke Nield (Rope Race) with 343 points

5th Place - Jake Fairbrother (Rope Race) with 296 points

6th place - Howard Keyworth (Rope Race)



The results for the 13 - 15 year old girls are -

1st place - Charlotte Garden (Stockport grammar) with 459 points

2nd place - Catherine Burgess (Rope Race) with 428 points

3rd place - Charlotte Kay (Stockport Grammar) with 401 points

4th place - Amy O'Connor (Rope Race) with 398 points

5th place - Beth Stratford - Fosbrooke (Rope Race) with 372 points



The results for the 13 - 15 year olds boys are -

1st place - Robin Lloyd (Rochdale) with 466 points

2nd place - Bradley Hargreaves (Rochdale) with 462 points

3rd place - Adam Moore (Rope Race) with 435 points

4th place - Liam Woolleson (Rope Race) with 426 points

5th place - James Checkley (Stockport Grammar) with 397 points

A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS AND TO EVERYONE WHO TURNED UP TO COMPETE!

Don't forget if you're interested in competing make sure you ask an instructor all about it!

GECKOS XMAS PARTY!

Friday 14th December
5pm - 8.30pm
£25 per child (discount for siblings)

This christmas Geckos are going WILD! The theme of this years party is "The Jungle" so dress to impress in your best fancy-dress outfit, whether you're a lion or a cockatoo get yourself down to Rope Race for some amazing festive fun!

We'll be having loads of climbing games with a jungle twist and a large scale adventure hunt, we'll also be enjoying a christmas buffet and there'll be prizes for the best dressed and for the winning teams, and even a sneaky present from santa.

If you want to come along then contact the centre on 0161 426 0226 or contact@roperace.co.uk or ask at the next Geckos session.

Booking in advance is essential as we wont be able to accept any bookings after Saturday 8th December, so hurry up! And get preparing your best costume!

Children in Need

This Friday 16th November we are having a fun `Fancy Dress` climbing event!! in aid of Children in Need. We will donate £1.00 to the charity for everyone who dresses up, there will be prizes for the best fancy dress and the best dressed pair, so let your imagination go wild!!
Why not bring a fiend and help us to raise as much money for Children in Need as possible.

Get well Soon

Liam Woolleson has recently injured his leg in a cycling accident.

Our best wishes go to Liam and we all hope he gets well soon!!

Testement to Liam's character and commitment is displayed by the fact he turned out at Rochdale to support his fellow climbers, despite only being out of hospital a couple of days earlier!!

CLIMBING COMPETION - ROCK ACADEMY

Saturday 27th October 2007: Held at Rochdale, the bouldering competition that was organised for our junior section to get some practice of competition climbing was a great success. Run along the same lines as the BRYCS, the competition gave the climbers a great experience and practice session to add to their list of escapades!!

A great day had by all and a super experience.

Very well done to all those who took part:
Ellen Downs
Catherine Burgess
Ellissa Bryant
Jenny Wood
Shelley Pickles

Not only did competition prove to be worthwhile in terms of experience but it also proved successful as some of our juniors walked away with prizes. This was a fantasic achievement and congratulations go to:

Ellissa Bryant 1st Place, 7 - 9 yr old category
Jennifer Wood 1st Place, 13 - 15 yr old category
Catherine Burgess 2nd Place, 13 - 15 yr old category
Shelley Pickles 3rd Place, 10 - 12 yr old category

Congratulations to everyone who took part!!!!

THINK PINK @ ROPE RACE

Thursday 25th October 2007: In aid of Breast Cancer UK we held a 'Pink' evening at Rope Race, inviting all our climbers to come along in support of this worthy cause wearing something pink. If climbers entered wearing something pink £1 of their entry was donated to charity. OUr climbers were also invited to take part in a number of 'pink' challenges we set for them, including bouldering problems, climbs and traverses. We requested voluntary contributions to take part and this alone raised over £60!

The evening was great success, with loads of climbers taking a challenge sheet and an excellent representation from our junior section.

Congratulations go to Ellissa Bryant, David Kirk and Catherine Burgess who won the competition and walked away with new chalk bags as well as 'pink' prize!!

Well done and many thanks go to all those who attended, took part and gave generously.

Towards the end of the summer we had a number of very sucessful outdoor days for our junior climbers. Our juniors come along to Windgather for the day and as well as getting to grips with climbing outside on real rock they can also have a go at abseiling as well!!

We'll be running some more outdoor days in the future, for our juniors so wathc this space and the website for more information!!!

Competition Training

ROCK ACADEMY TRAINING: Saturday 13th October was the first event in what will become a regular fixture for Rope Race. A number of climbers attending a 2 hour bouldering training session with a local bouldering expert and teacher, in preparation for a competition that will be held at Rochdale climbing wall this coming Saturday 27th October 2007.
The feedback from the 'trainees' was that the workshop proved extremely sucessful in helping them prepare for the coming competition.
Watch this space for details of how the competition went, and for future events!

Outdoor Climbing Days

We are now into the the swing of regular outdoor days for the Geckos. Both August and September's outdoor days have gone down well and the weather held out for us on both 4th August and 1st September. A range of climbs all over the crag and even an abseil gave the climbers plenty to go at for the day. One or two on both days managed a go at one of the hardest routes on the cliff, Portfolio, an HVS, or Hard Very Severe, graded climb which is a significant achievement.

With our outdoor days now becoming a regular event the next day will be the first Saturday in October (6th October) and we'll be going to Windgather, near Kettleshulme.

Kayaking club

New for the winter is our kayaking club, the first session will run on Saturday 8th September between 1.00pm - 3.00pm and is for anyone over the age of 8 years.
We will focus on a mixture of fun and enjoyment as well as improving everyone`s paddling skills and work towards gaining BCU Kayak Star Award. All kayaking equipment will be provided. you only need to bring is a complete change of clothes and old trainers just in case!!
Places are strictly limited so if you want to join us contact the centre and book your place.

Outdoor climbing - 1st September

We've got a few places left for this Saturdays outdoor climbing at Windgather. Hopefully the weather will improve but just in case make sure you bring waterproofs, sun cream, fleece, hat, plenty of food and drinks for lunch. We will be meeting at Rope Race at 10.00am and should be back by 4.00pm.

The British Bouldering Championships

Well done girls for doing well at this event, look forward to seeing the pictures.

More outdoor climbing pictures

Thanks Nat for the great pictures of the outdoor day at Windgather.

BRYCS - Final 2007

Well done to Ellissa Bryant for getting to the finals at Ratho and coming 12th overall in the girls 7-9 age group.

Catherine`s outdoor climbing pics

Thanks Catherine for sending your pictures, what was Dee thinking!!

Outdoor climbing

I hope you all had a fantastic time outdoors on Saturday. If anyone has any photos of the day, could you please email them or I can copy them off your camera.
sharon@roperace.co.uk

Hannah Reedy

Well done Hannah for getting your Bronze Geckos Award.
Happy Climbing!!!

Platinum Award

Well done Liam for gaining your Platinum Award last week & modelling the new Geckos T`shirt

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SUMMER OUTDOOR CLIMBING

We will be running the first of our summer outdoor climbing days on Saturday 23rd June. As places are limited contact the centre soon as possible.

Julia

Congratulations Julia for getting your gold Geckos award

Silver

Well done for gaining your silver Geckos award

Catherines BRYCS pictures

Thanks to Catherine for sending me her pictures from the BRYCS round at Manchester

BRYCS

Well done!! to all the Geckos who entered this months BRYCS competition. A special congratulations to Elissa Bryant and Charlotte Garden who now will be competing at the finals.

13-15 years Charlotte Garden - 2nd

13-15 years Catherine Burgess - 9th

13-15 years Ben Hazelby - 7th

10-12 years Shelly Pickles - 4th

10-12 years Jennifer Wood - 8th

7-9 years Elissa Bryant - 3rd

BRYCS

Congratulations!!!

We'd like to say a big well done to all the Geckos who are competing in the BRYCS at the minute.

BRYCS stands for British Regional Youth Climbing Series, and climbers from all over the country are competing in their regions for a place at the grand final in Ratho, Edinburgh. Only the top three from each region get through to the final so the competition is pretty tough.

Rope Race has 6 Geckos competing at BRYCS in different age categories, they have completed 2 rounds out of the 3 that they have to attend at different climbing centres across the North West. So congratulations to -

Elissa Bryant (Girls category age 7 - 9) Currently ranked 3rd

Shelley Pickles (Girls category age 10 - 12) Currently ranked 5th

Jennifer Wood (Girls category age 10 - 12) Currently ranked 13th

Charlotte Garden (Girls category age 13 - 15) Currently ranked 1st

Catherine Burgess (Girls category age 13 - 15) Currently ranked 9th

Ben Hazelby (Boys category age 13 - 15) Currently ranked 7th

The ranking they get is a combination of their positions at the first 2 rounds, were very proud of them all.

Elissa Bryant has written this about her day in Rochdale -

My Climbing at Rochdale BRYCS Round 2

24th March 2007

We left home at 8.20am and arrived at Climb Rochdale, looked around and registered.

First we started stretches in a big hall and then we went out into our groups and the 13 - 15 girls and boys went to the bouldering but I started with top rope routes.

The first route was purple and like a warm up it was easy. The second route was a bit harder and it yellow, nearly everyone in my group did it. The third one was the hardest and that was blue, I went to the top.

After this we had a break for lunch.

Then we went upstairs to the bouldering room and the first route everyone did. The second one was a tiny bit harder but good. The third one I nearly gave my mum a heart attack because I nearly fell off the wall but I didnt and I got to the top.

I was in joint 1st position with a girl called Lucy and we had to do an age 10 - 12 top-rope climb off. I nearly went to the top but Lucy didnt get as far so I came in first place!

It was a really fun day and it was great to win.

Good luck to everyone competing in the third and final North West round on April 28th.

Awards!

These two happy chappies completed their Gecko Awards last week!

Congratulations to Michael Carr for getting his Bronze Award and to Jacob Murray for getting his Silver Award!