Today
The Caruso Method is not a static system and over the years it has continued to develop by deepening technical, educational and cultural aspects. I have always thought that it is right to share knowledge and transmit it to anyone who is interested. However, there is the problem of teaching the techniques correctly, avoiding the spread of errors and problems.
If until the mid-90s it was considered normal not to teach movement techniques in climbing courses, today it can no longer be ignored, at least in words. The advantages that derive from the technical and didactic contents of the Method compared to the old casual, so-called “instinctive” approach, are so evident that the most important associations operating in the sector have asked me to hold specific training courses for some of their instructors. This was initially positive because it favored a cultural change in the approach to this discipline and a rapid diffusion of some techniques. But in recent years, if on the one hand the courses that claim to teach the Caruso Method have multiplied – and this can only please me – on the other hand I have to note that the contents transmitted are often distorted, if not completely wrong. This risks nullifying the effort made to make the users of those associations aware of an effective system, built on scientific bases, that develops motor skills while preserving health; in short, a system based on the quality of teaching.
There are several reasons why this happens. The main one is the belief, unfortunately quite widespread among climbing instructors, that it is possible to learn the techniques of the Method in just a few lessons. Drawing a parallel with conditional abilities, it is as if an instructor who has never trained specifically thought he could do a pull-up on an arm or a finger in 2 or 3 training sessions and then perhaps expected his students to do the same. How much damage would he cause to himself and others? The fact is that to learn and correctly perform the techniques of the Method for oneself takes time and practice; to transmit them to others, one must then have assimilated, at a conceptual and motor level, many more things. Rather than teaching wrong things, it would then be better to stick to the instinctive approach, at least the errors would spread randomly and not systematically, as often happens.
Other reasons are connected to the cultural and moral degeneration that is rampant in the world of sports and unfortunately also in mountaineering and climbing. This means that initiatives inspired by healthy intentions of improvement are sometimes distorted instead of supported in their original content, for selfish ends or sad squabbles of “power”.
Since 2009, IAMA has existed, the official school of the Caruso Method ® established at the San Marino Alpine Club (CASM). The CASM decided to involve me personally to train the IAMA instructors, in order to guarantee the authenticity of the teaching. These instructors – currently from San Marino, Italy and Switzerland – are the only ones to have followed the appropriate training path, which in my opinion is necessary to be able to correctly teach the techniques of the Method. It is important to underline here that teaching ability is different from sporting performance, a certain level of climbing is a necessary but not sufficient condition to be able to teach.
CASM organizes educational activities, through the IAMA school, with authorized instructors, according to the official programs of the club, in national and international territory.

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