Learning to lead...

[sawyl]

First official day of learning to lead with our sensei. I've done a few bits and pieces over the last year or so, but it's good to get a solid grounding from someone who really knows what they're doing. Neither of us had any real problems — I think it's mostly going to be a matter of practicing — and because our basic skills are reasonably developed, we both found that our clipping technique improved as we started doing harder stuff and our concentration shifted back to the actual climbing...