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places to visit => abroad => Topic started by: Alex Smurthwaite on August 25, 2017, 10:53:59 pm

Title: Boards of Berlin
Post by: Alex Smurthwaite on August 25, 2017, 10:53:59 pm: Heading to Berlin for a week with family. Anyone know of any centres with good training areas. Can't find much online
Cheers
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: Nibile on August 30, 2017, 10:45:13 am: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Berlin+climbing+gym
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: Coops_13 on August 30, 2017, 11:49:30 am: I visited Ostbloc and was not blown away. Large centre, poor board with in-situ chumps stretching underneath. No strong climbing scene there at all, in my clumpy hire shoes I was easily the best there (I'm mediocre). Worth a one-off visit if you're close, would not go back
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: jwi on August 30, 2017, 01:32:18 pm: Whenever I come to a new bouldering gym I just try to climb as many boulders as possible. Four-five years ago the setting in Ostbloc was quite tricky and it took me about five hours to complete the entire circuit of problems around my flash level. Time well spent.
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: Muenchener on August 30, 2017, 02:23:46 pm: Quote from: Coops_13 on August 30, 2017, 11:49:30 am
board with in-situ chumps stretching underneath.

Not an uncommon problem at German bouldering walls, see also Boulderwelt Ost in Munich. Menacingly looking & sounding sketchy directly above them usually does the trick.
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: erm, sam on August 30, 2017, 06:05:07 pm: Oder "Entshuldigung ze bitte"
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: rginns on August 30, 2017, 07:35:02 pm: I thought Ostbloc was pretty good, I mean the circuit, the problems were well set and it was spacious, not too crowded, but I just climbed the problems, not on a board, if they even had one. Worth a visit imo...
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: Muenchener on August 31, 2017, 05:38:32 am: Quote from: erm, sam on August 30, 2017, 06:05:07 pm
Oder "Entshuldigung ze bitte"

Nah. That might give them the idea that they have some business being there in the first place.
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: abarro81 on August 31, 2017, 10:18:30 am: I think I went to Ostbloc when I had a conference in Berlin (is it the one next to the river?). The board thing upstairs was shit, but the problems were decent, as you'd expect from a modern bouldering centre. They have an ok campus board and a peg board too IIRC
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: Alex Smurthwaite on September 01, 2017, 07:10:59 am: Ended up at boulderklub, dont have a board. But well set basic problems, less comp style than most modern centres. Decent gym
Title: Re: Boards of Berlin
Post by: jwi on June 28, 2019, 08:00:44 pm: OK, haven't been to Berlin in many years. Does anyone know which bouldering gym is currently the best?