Our Squad and Development Squad is a dedicated training group for young climbers who are serious about developing their skills, strength, and mentality to climbing. We move beyond general practice and focus on the technical, physical, and strategic elements required for success in competition and in themselves.

Both our Team and Squad are invitational clubs that are usually selected from our Kids Clubs, however if you have a child that is performing at high level that is not on our clubs then please drop an email to coaching@volume1climbing.co.uk to ask about the selection process and criteria.

Squad News

We recentley held our Big Scramble Competition at Volume 1 where many of our team and development squad attended. Below is a report from one of our junior team captains, Konrad Bates, about how the day unfolded:

There's something so fun and exciting about the comp style setting at volume one. I attended the big scramble at volume one the other week, with the rest of the high sports squad. The format was unique but turned out to be a lot of fun, there were 50 climbs in a rough order of difficulty, 1 being the easiest and 50 being the hardest, the harder the climb, the more points you would get, but you only get points for the top 20 climbs. This forces you to be strategic with how hard you set your bar, if you choose something too hard, you might not have time to do enough climbs, but too easy and you won't get enough points. This also forced all the climbers to climb till the very end of the time limit just to get a few extra points. 

The setting was absolutely amazing, Ben Preston and his team did a fantastic job, a few standouts from the qualifiers were a fantastic real rock hold climb next to the spray which used interesting rock feeling holds with slow controlled, yet hard moves that reminded me of granite boulders, another stand out had to be this orange climb on the main wall of the gym, this climb used an incredible amount of body tension to bring you up to the crux move which was a big shoulder before a hard couple moves on bad slopers before the match. 

The finals was an amazing show to watch, the format leads to climbs being topped right up to the end of the time. The format was as follows: all climbers have a free climb for 25min on all the boulders so they have to strategise which ones to put time on. By the end of an amazing final Anais got first with Lilyanna and Evelyn in second and third in the female category and The Crumb (Toma Croome) got first with Luc and Max in second and third in the male category.