You may be tempted to consider performing rock climbing by joining a team of climbers, but have you been properly introduced to this sport. Even if you want to give it a shot without any prior rock climbing instructions, you may still not be able to make it simply because the team of climbers will want you to be at least basically trained into this.

First of all, climbing requires knowledge about the right safety and the specific gear associated with this sport, gear without which nobody is welcomed in a team. Aside from this, climbing teams will usually include climbers who have some training and at this point you may give it a thought to attend some classes before you engage in anything else.

In fact, rock climbing is a sport wherein you always have something new to see, something new to get challenged by. There may be as well situations to confront with that you haven’t been instructed, many of these situations requiring mostly your intuition into dealing with them in the right way.

The good thing about rock climbing instruction is that you get the chance to get in touch with qualified personnel who have been doing this for many years and are well aware of the ins and outs of this sport. Just keep in mind that this sport is seen as a dangerous one if you are not well instructed on its safety cautions and the right equipment to wear.

The lessons can be taken either from instructors operating inside the climbing gyms or with any experienced climber that is part of a climbing club. The instruction usually evolves in this way:

• You will be introduced to the safety procedures that are required by this activity. The basic things that are seen as essential in assuring safety are well covered in the first lessons. At this point you will learn how to make knots, belaying, anchoring, climbing techniques, signaling, as well as rating and rappelling.

  As a beginner you will be taught on a low-angle, moderate rock and after that you will advance one step ahead. But it is important that you master these first lessons correctly because they will help you with the future lessons.

• The next step is the completion of several climbs that are performed with several levels of difficulty, from the easier to climb walls to more difficult ones. The thing is that with this next step you will learn techniques on the spot along with the subtleties of smearing and edging. It is important to know that you will use these techniques with rock face climbing. Crack climbing will require lie-backing and jamming while you will be also introduced to basics of anchoring through the use of camming and nuts.