[Juan]

Hi there, I am a final year Uni student looking to gather some information on accident's and user interaction with bouldering pad's for my dissertation. This research will be put towards creating a new and innovative pad design. The survey is brief and concise, should only take a minute to complete. Peace and happy climbing!
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s.asp?sid=07zhq7tsle1vcga343902

[Wood FT]

Hi Juan,

Whenever I put my sandwiches in a pad they come out crushed when I get to the crag, is there something you can do to prevent this?

yours,

Guy

[Stubbs]

[Durbs]

Use pitta bread.

[Juan]

Well taco folds are for tacos, burrito folds are for burritos.....I think you could be onto something here

[tomtom]

Having watched Andy Popp fall from c.4m a few weeks ago, miss the pads and his feet sink c.20cm into mud - I thought this could be a novel method for boulder mat design...

Putting my physics brain on (please bear in mind its 6pm on a friday) this may be because mud behaves like a non-newtonian fluid... the faster you press, the harder it resists deformation.. Might be a bit heavy though.

Genius. Right, I'm off to the pub after I've phoned up Assad to sort things out there... as I'm on a roll...

[robertostallioni]

Already done TomTom. Reado del spielio.

http://snapclimbing.com/en/crash-pads/111-wrap.html

[tomtom]

Already done TomTom. Reado del spielio.

http://snapclimbing.com/en/crash-pads/111-wrap.html

Bugger - I'll get Sloper onto them... he can beat some IPR law into them with a brown brogue...

[andyd]

I'd like a pad with an element of SPIT (self-positioning-intuition-technology).

[tomtom]

Got it covered Andy...

You wear a transponder on your arse (or chalk bag) and the mat is held between four motors - positioned on the ground at each corner and connected to the mat via cords. THe cords are wound in and out according to your transponders position allowing the mat to move across the ground accordingly.

Its called Positional Impact Sensory System (tm)

[SA Chris]

I was thinking about a pad with a beanbag like structure on one side tat could deform to irregularities in the base below. I'm calling it the Beanbag All Luxury Landing System (pat. pending)

[andyd]

Got it covered Andy...

You wear a transponder on your arse (or chalk bag) and the mat is held between four motors - positioned on the ground at each corner and connected to the mat via cords. THe cords are wound in and out according to your transponders position allowing the mat to move across the ground accordingly.

Its called Positional Impact Sensory System (tm)

An altogether different meaning to 'is that p*ss on your pants?'

[tomtom]

Got it covered Andy...

You wear a transponder on your arse (or chalk bag) and the mat is held between four motors - positioned on the ground at each corner and connected to the mat via cords. THe cords are wound in and out according to your transponders position allowing the mat to move across the ground accordingly.

Its called Positional Impact Sensory System (tm)

An altogether different meaning to 'is that p*ss on your pants?'

- our tag line is "Don't worry, you're covered with PISS"

[honroid]

Survey done. Loving the SNAP wrap, build quality could be better though

[Moo]

Something like a tough drybag would be useful for filling voids in rocky landings. You could just inflate it to the size you needed to fill the hole and level the landing.

essentially a beach ball that won't pop.

[SA Chris]

I'd thought of that, but not sure it's possible. As soon as you load it surely it will just pop out?

[tomtom]

A bag of ready mix concrete and some water would do the job perfic...

[SA Chris]

Alternatively, I have to platform a local spot on a pebble beach whenever i climb there by kicking some the pebbles around to cover up some of the larger boulders and fill in some holes. Maybe I should bag up the pebbles and sell them? concrete would take longer to set (although that didn't seem to deter developers at Boltsheugh).