Summary: A "chair" can be formed in adaptive rock climbing to help climbers with disabilities stay safe in the seat and harness. Learn to fit people with disabilities into a climbing sling and chair at a rock climbing wall in this free video on adaptive climbing.
Suzy Shrare has been helping people with disabilities have fun with indoor rock climbing for a few years with the organization Splore.read more
"Now, that we have Joyce, our participant transferred to the sling seat, next thing we need to do is set up the sling seat for her, and what you'll need for this next step, you'll need your three daisy chains, and three carabiners and on the sling seat, there's these loops here, you'll take one end of the daisy chain, run it through here until about the end, it'll actually go in front of Joyce, where there's, and it'll be tied through another loop on the other end of the harness, and we'll just pull both through, and you always want to make sure your participant's comfortable. Just say, "are you comfortable with this? I know it looks a little awkward, but we want to make sure you're comfortable and we're going to do this at the top, the middle, and the bottom, so eventually it'll look like Joyce is wrapped up in a hot dog, and then we'll take our carabiner here, put it through one end of the daisy chain, loop, and then another end, and then we'll just lay it down here until we get the other three set up."
eHow Article: Adaptive Rock Climbing for People With Disabilities: Chair