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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In Montgomery County, it is very competitive to make any level of the climbing team.  I agree with the previous poster of having your child start to climb regularly now if they may want to make a team in the future.  There just aren't enough spots.[/quote]

Have you tried Sportrock Rio? That team was just getting established this past year, and they’ll be having tryouts in late August for the coming year. [/quote]

Some climbing gyms are very supportive and care about their team kids and others only care about making money and replacing good coaches and staff with less experienced people to limit cost. Check out Movement Rockville or Crystal City if you're in those areas and Evolution Boulders if you're out near Manassas, VA. I'd avoid Sportrock, especially for beginners, since they've replaced almost every coach at every location in the past couple years. Also, the Rio location you mentioned hired and fired their head coach within a year and I think that job opening is still open. [/quote]

Movement Rockville is really hard to get in - if you aren’t able to sign up within ten minutes of beginner classes opening for registration, you are SOL.   And my kid has been climbing for a year and STILL isn’t good enough for the team, so he is stuck in less formal settings with brand new kids and it’s hard to progress like that.  It’s not very welcoming logistically to getting new kids into the sport even though everyone is kind and encouraging.

The logistics are much, much easier at Sportrock Rio - want to start getting more serious?  Great, just sign up.  Because it’s less popular and farther out, they are actually taking new kids into the system.   [/quote]

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