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Description: This training addresses falling directly to help improve commitment. We do progressive falling practice, followed by movement, breathing, resting, and body/mind awareness exercises. Finally, students apply everything to a goal route. Students leave understanding how to take appropriate risks and how to commit to those risks.

Member Price - $100

Non-Member Price- $125

You’ll learn how to:

• Fall safely

• Give a dynamic (cushioned) belay

• Break a climb into smaller risk events

• Assess risks effectively

• Distinguish between no- and yes-fall zones

• Engage no- and yes-fall zones appropriately

• Make appropriate risk decisions

• Improve body and mind awareness

• Rest effectively

• Improve breathing

• Create flow and momentum

• Deal with climbing stress

• Commit more deliberately

• Reduce fear, and more

Instructor Bio:

Dustin Portzline is your instructor, and he shares insights gained during thousands of days on a rope. Together, you'll form a team to assess and manage risk while you receive real-time feedback and tips for improving your movement and technical skills from an accomplished climber.  Dustin has been living and guiding in the Gunks since 2010. Born in Chicago and raised in central Pennsylvania, he discovered climbing in his teens and has never looked back. Years of technical training, immersion in the climbing lifestyle and varied natural landscapes has given Dustin an intimate understanding of the challenges and rewards inherent in climbing. An AMGA Certified Rock Guide, New York State Licensed Guide and Wilderness First Responder, he lives in Gardiner, NY with his wife Amelia and their talus hound Chloe.