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#25 Re: Holds
February 27, 2015, 07:34:57 pm
I bought a few hundred off customholds years back for cliffs barn, pretty decent and a good ££ for resins, not sure how they would fair on a steep board, they were fine for the vert/leaning walls. If you fancied any wooden ones, i do small sets of crimps that are good for... crimping..  :-\
Excellent marketeering.  I've just put in an order for my board.  Been looking for some nice wooden screw-ons...

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#26 Re: Holds
February 27, 2015, 09:42:19 pm
Beacon are good - simple shapes and okay texture. The simpler Core ones are okay, the more complicated ones are annoying - the very smooth limestone texture ones might be good though. Most Stonesmith ones I've felt are too coarse by far for personal training, however a few of the simpler smoother shapes look good. There are also some pure crimpers with a nice smooth texture being trialed at TCA, dunno how many more of them there are.

Others: Avoid Holdz like the skin-shredding plague that they are. Bleaustone are great and come in nice varieties and elegant shapes. Axis are great too, generally more angular than Bleaustone but mostly really friendly rounded lips and a nice texture too. Lapis are a bit more complex but have some decent more complex holds, they can feel sharp though.

For a home wall with intensive boulder training, I'd go for Axis and.....maybe Bleaustone as a back-up.

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#27 Re: Holds
February 27, 2015, 09:54:52 pm
I think on a training board the holds should be really simple by hats why I like the stone smith and bleaustone...

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#28 Re: Holds
February 27, 2015, 10:11:16 pm
If I was going to buy holds I'd like to give my money to Malc.

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#29 Re: Holds
February 27, 2015, 11:15:57 pm
Purely because he never used a knee bar in the cave?

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#30 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 01:33:04 am
"climb open, climb strong"

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#31 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 08:59:15 am
There are quite a lot of the stonesmith holds up in TCA now and I personally really like them.  In particular, the board holds and mini jugs are really nice to climb on and would be cool on a homeboard.  Like Rodma I nearly bought the board holds when they were reduced despite having nowhere currently to put them!

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#32 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 09:22:17 am
Gutted I missed that.... The one bit of advice I have to climbing hold manufacturers is to have a photo of some one holding the hold so people can actually gauge size etc... Only place that seems to do that is crusher holds (a glass of crusher it's tough enough to make milk shake)....

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#33 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 09:41:24 am
Stone smith put a Lego man next to their holds for scale....

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#34 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 10:22:09 am
Since when was that a relatable reference....

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#35 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 11:03:52 am
Since when was that a relatable reference....
Since you very first played with Lego :shrug:

A little more consistent than someone's hand unless you know what size the hand is, perhaps crusher could take a photo of the hand in question holding a Lego figure for scale :p

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#36 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 11:06:55 am

Since when was that a relatable reference....

If you looked on their website - they even had measurements for the Lego man so you could get an idea...

I liked the idea - a bit nicer than leaving a ruler in every shot etc...

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#37 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 11:44:10 am
A man holding the hold a Lego figure and a ruler....

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#38 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 11:53:33 am


I know how the Lego character feels :D

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#39 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 01:40:00 pm
Short? Angry? Stiff? Green?

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#40 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 02:33:03 pm
Short? Angry? Stiff? Green?

Needing a haircut...

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#41 Re: Holds
February 28, 2015, 03:23:45 pm
The Lego model also seems to have a good understanding of the term 'tops off for topping out'

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#42 Re: Holds
March 02, 2015, 05:20:07 pm
I bought a few hundred off customholds years back for cliffs barn, pretty decent and a good ££ for resins, not sure how they would fair on a steep board, they were fine for the vert/leaning walls. If you fancied any wooden ones, i do small sets of crimps that are good for... crimping..  :-\
Excellent marketeering.  I've just put in an order for my board.  Been looking for some nice wooden screw-ons...

 :icon_beerchug:   :strongbench:

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#43 Re: Holds
April 16, 2015, 01:44:10 pm
I'm really enjoying the board, and the wooden holds I got from Probes are luuverly. However the moon board holds I have got are all, without exception, small crimps. This is fine but things are getting a little 1 dimensional. Can anybody recommend a set of slopers that are good to use on a 40 degree board?

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#44 Re: Holds
April 16, 2015, 08:49:22 pm
Pinches Will lots of pinches!

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#45 Re: Holds
April 16, 2015, 09:12:34 pm
I agree that on a 40 deg board, without a thumb catch, a true sloper will have Little use.

I'd look at slopey pinches...

So ill make a lovely "chunk" series plus some similar ones.

Other than that I'd look at "comp" holds such as
Xcult
Flathold
Teknik
Artline
Axis
Rokodromo

If you want "juggy slopers" look at hrt

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#46 Re: Holds
April 16, 2015, 09:21:35 pm
Rokodromo are terrible imo, poor textures, odd shapes, polish quickly.

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#47 Re: Holds
April 16, 2015, 09:32:24 pm
Polish quickly: Yes.

But I really love their "bolt on volumes". They are maybe a bit big for a home wall)

 

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