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'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 10, 2009, 07:08:19 pm
According to the search function its never been mentioned here?

Has anyone been here? Staying overnight tomorrow and wondering if its worth a visit?

or shall i spend the money on cable tv p0rn access for the night?  :wank:

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#1 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 10, 2009, 07:57:31 pm
its beyond shit, pr0n every time

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#2 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 10, 2009, 08:16:46 pm
Why beyond shit?

Do they have a campus board, i'd consider an hour on that, then watch a cheaper television x film where they guys hard ons are taped to their stomachs and you don't get to see any clitoral lippage.  :-\

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#3 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 10, 2009, 09:24:12 pm
No campus board. Think they have a fingerboard? Other than that it's some not very good bouldering - worth it if you're bored but it isn't comparable to good walls (think notably worse than the matrix if you're familiar with Sheffield walls).

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#4 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 10, 2009, 10:01:19 pm
was always a touch "basic" back in the day - but I learnt the "ropes" there, so vaguely fond memories

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#5 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 11, 2009, 08:51:31 am
It's like many training facilities in the uk it's what you make of it. I use the wall as it's local to me, the bouldering setting at the moment is pants but if you use your own ideas you can get a reasnoble session. Definitely no campus board, moon finger board however. Just don't look at the grading, shocking.

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#6 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 11, 2009, 09:18:15 am
ha yes the fingerboard was put up by someone who'd never used one - its so high you have to climb up to it

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#7 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 11, 2009, 09:19:37 am
Oh, and a nice sharia-style no shirts off policy, despite the lack of ventilation

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#8 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 11, 2009, 11:59:36 am
Real men wear vests

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#9 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 11, 2009, 12:08:57 pm
Real men wear vests

Pink wifebeater vests in fact.

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#10 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 12, 2009, 01:35:01 pm
Well I went as hotel didn't have pr0n movies available  ;D

Route settings a bit weird there, as i tried something that didn't allow features, but a local said "yeah you can use them on that bit, but not there"

Got a bit bored so just bimbled and stared at the womens arses

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#11 Re: 'Rock Solid' indoor wall, oxford?
June 12, 2009, 07:00:32 pm
I hope the women's arses made up for the lack of pr0n at the hotel, the bouldering probably didn't.  I can't say I often understand the setting or grading there, nor enjoy the problems.  It's sad when the things you put up on the woodie at home are better than something a wall can come up with.  Not helped by the fact that a  Brookes is so expensive for what you actually get.  The lead tower routes are generally a bit better set than the bouldering, but even then anything other than the BMC leading ladder stuff tends to be a bit weird grade wise and not that inspiring as a route goes (if plastic can be inspiring). 

 

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