Show Notes:

Related resources:

• AMGA Single Pitch Instructor Page
• Spencer Huffman’s Instagram @shuffrocks
• Szu-ting Yi (Ting Ting)’s Instagram @szutingyi
• SPI handbook (2024)
• EP 20 – Everything SPI 01 – Professionalism and Risk Management

Episode Intro:

Dear listeners of the Female Guides Requested Podcast, happy Wednesday. This is your host Ting Ting, and I’m still in my home country Taiwan. Today my dear friend and colleague Spencer Huffman returned for the Everything SPI series. We tried our best to extract and organize important nuggets from our past experiences to help single pitch instructors and whoever wants to enter the field of guiding. In this episode, we focus on Site Selection and Group Management. If you would like to check out our first episode of the series, please visit episode 20 in which we talked about Professionalism and Risk Management.

Both Spencer and I are AMGA certified Rock Guides and SPI Providers. We co-taught an SPI course back in October 2023 and found that our teaching style was quite compatible and complimentary. Therefore, we decided to do this podcast series, Everything SPI, to create supplemental material related to the SPI programs.

Spencer and I both have deep roots in climbing education. We have over 20 years of field instructing experience and are confident that we can provide valuable insights. We also recognize that the field of climbing instruction is dynamic and we can’t possibly know everything. So, if you have any questions, feedback, please reach out to help us improve. Now please enjoy the second episode of Everything SPI with Spencer and Ting Ting.

Things We Talked about:

• How to plan the day
• How to actually run a climbing day
• Client Screening
• Course design
• Case Study
• Understand the sites
• Understand your clients – deliver a compelling experience
• Time Management
• Group Management
• … and more