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USnavy


Dec 29, 2013, 8:02 AM

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Re: [Gmburns2000] How qualified to instruct are you?
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Gmburns2000 wrote:
USnavy wrote:
Gmburns2000 wrote:
majid_sabet wrote:
madrasrock wrote:
How qualified to instruct are you?

I thought talking about qualifications was better in the general forum.
Back Ground topic:
http://www.rockclimbing.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2640311;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;page=unread#unread


So how would you determine a persons qualifications?

Whether you are paid or not, all of us have been instructors or guided at one point in our climbing adventures. We take our friends or someone took us climbing. How did you determine they were not going to kill you?

You have all seen people with groups of friend, and they had no clue what they were doing.

So how would you evaluate people if you were King?
Witten test like every collage in the county?
Times Skills test?
Just a climbing bio?
???

Are you trying to hire instructors or want to know where you are as far as been an instructor?

I think he's trying to blend that subtle difference between taking newbies to the crag vs. paid guides.
One gets paid and has liability, the other doesent.

It's perfectly possible to get sued without getting paid.
A guide has inherent liability. Some random dude at the crag that showed you how to use a GriGri does not. You would probably have a hard time successfully suing some random cragger because he dident show you how to use the GriGri right and you got hurt as a result. A guide, however, would be far easier to sue.

As far as I am aware, in the United States, there has never been a successful lawsuit involving a climber suing a non-professional guide, AKA random Joe, over negligence. There has only been one case in US history in which a climber sued the landowner for an injury, and the suit was not successful.


(This post was edited by USnavy on Dec 29, 2013, 8:05 AM)



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