Name: Avoiding Climbing Injuries Mini-Clinic and Central Park Bouldering
Start: 2024-09-26T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-26T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Umpire Rock (Rat Rock)

Avoiding Climbing Injuries Mini-Clinic and Central Park Bouldering

New to climbing or climbing outdoors? Join us to climb outside and chat about strategies for avoiding common climbing injuries!
About this Event

Been pushing hard at the gym and starting to feel sore fingers or painful elbows? We'll talk about strategies for avoiding both acute and long term climbing injuries. Come with stories of what ails you. We'll chat about ways to avoid aches, pains, and even broken ankles! Join us for this lively and informative discussion and then stay for one of NYC's best outdoor boulders - Rat Rock. Volunteers from NY3C will happily help out new climbers at the event.

What are Mini-Clinics?: The outdoors should be for everyone, but not everyone has the access to the knowledge and education around it. NY3C is hosting mini-clinics to help bridge the gap to make the outdoors more accessible.

Location: This event will take place at Rat Rock. Rat Rock is designated as Umpire Rock on Central Park maps. If you come up 7th Ave from Times Square and enter the park you see a playground straight ahead. Rat Rock is on the left.

Rat Rock is in the SW corner of the park near the 59th Street Columbus Circle station. The SW side of the rock is clearly seen as you approach it from the park entrance.

If you have any trouble accessing or finding Rat Rock, please call or text 217-331-8469.

Cost: Mini-Clinics are FREE to attend, but if you would like to make a financial contribution for this clinic it would be much appreciated. Venmo code and donation link will be provided at the event.

Donation receipts provided upon request.

Other: We encourage you to bring water and food to fuel your sends!

Rain Date: If for any reason the weather does not agree with our plans, the alternative rain date will be announced via Instagram story and emailed to registrants (follow us @nycclimbingcollective).

Accessibility info: Central Park only has bouldering, which is shorter walls without a rope. Please understand all falls are "ground" falls, meaning the climber will land on the ground below. Climbing is inherently dangerous; you climb at your own risk. Central Park has accessible restrooms, but they are ample distance away from the boulders. If you would like to notify us or request accommodations to help make the event more accessible to you, please email [email protected]