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the shizzle => news => Topic started by: Brolly on February 18, 2009, 09:26:16 pm
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Hi all.
Thanks for your interest so far.
While we are getting our internet site up and running, we thought we'd post a link to photos showing progress (more will be updated every couple of days).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19083292@N00/sets/72157613131432840/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19083292@N00/sets/72157613131432840/)
Any feedback welcome and if you want a tour around the building just PM me or Steve.
Cheers Oliver
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Fucking hell Oli, that looks like a fine effort. Thought I recognised the name Brolly.
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Looks good, what did you do with all that racking? Like the wallpaper.
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looks great !
could you post the post code so's i can google map it?
cheers!
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Looks really cool - nearly as good as The Mill - good effort Ollie.
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Flippin eck Oli, looks awesome!
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Looks really cool - nearly as good as The Mill - good effort Ollie.
Hopefully no one will change the locks so you can't get in at the Depot ;)
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amazing, good luck
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Looks really cool - nearly as good as The Mill - good effort Ollie.
Hopefully no one will change the locks so you can't get in at the Depot ;)
Very funny! That is still a complete mystery that one...
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Good effort Oli.
Looks amazing and very big (presumably the biggest indoor bouldering venue in the UK?)- I dare say they'll be queuing round the block once the doors open!
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Oliver, brilliant job! I look forward to sampling the delights of the Depot once all is finished! :thumbsup:
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Epic! This is going to be a good year for yorkshire climbers...
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Epic! This is going to be a good year for yorkshire climbers...
Why, are you all moving nearer to Hobson Moor?
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Hello all
Thanks for all the positive comments.
Just wanted to share two pictures of some of the new features we have installed over the past couple of days.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/3311479720_2c950d741d.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3310649099_32cac24c7b.jpg)
More details are attached to the Flickr descriptions if you want them, again at http://www.flickr.com/photos/19083292@N00/sets/72157613131432840/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19083292@N00/sets/72157613131432840/).
Again any feedback welcome, and if you want to visit, just send me or Steve a PM.
Cheers Oliver
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Hi all.
Thanks to the people who have been down to visit.
A few more shots of some of the shapes we have put up over the last week. We are getting there now, first coat of paint going on this weekend!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/3331944466_5474acb56d_b.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3416/3331109475_9f21f3f189_b.jpg)
Again if you want to pop in just drop me or Steve a PM.
Cheers Oliver
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That looks amazing. Is it just me or are those walls pretty high? Or are you going to install 2 foot deep plush matting?
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Beautiful shapes! :o
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looks fucking amazing. i love the wave wall, it works so well at eldon.
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Place looks immense!! Shame I'm moving back to London come September........balls
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ollie have you left your imprint on any of then walls ?
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This is walking distance from my work, so cant wait!!
When are you due to open, and will the use of the cardio equipment be included in the entry fee?
Plus, can we have some pictures please.
xx
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Nearly there.
Matting being fitted as we speak, 150 problems set so far, changing rooms finished this weekend etc
All been well, we should be open a week on Saturday.
The latest photos taken today;
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3662/3385546044_6cde12fb74.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3660/3384732017_2195c25626.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3602/3385545494_d430626ef1.jpg)
More photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/19083292@N00/sets/72157613131432840/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19083292@N00/sets/72157613131432840/)
Again any questions please let me know.
Cheers Oliver
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New pics look great.
I went for a nosy last week with friends, and the guys are super friendly and showed us around.
Cant wait for it to open!
:bounce:
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Looks ace... Any news on prices? membership etc?
I'm particularly excited because fingers crossed - i'm buying a house 5 mins walk away.. anybody want a room to rent?
The pub opposite the depot is quite friendly and serves decent ale.. the chinese takeaway a few buildings down (orient express) is brilliant food, went for a night out around there and was pleasantly impressed. :beer1:
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looks awesome! Cant wait!
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Went to have a boulder yesterday and was really impessed, place looked great and loads of different routes, although I dont have any skin left on my fingers!
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Went for a climb on Saturday. It's another level. Great well made features, amazing changing rooms and chill out area. Also a well thought out kids area and viewing arena. Can't wait to see the next stage after they recover from all their hard work
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checked it out sat morning. looks great. much more to come too.
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Took Team Stallion to the Depot this afternoon. Met Olly and Steve for the first(ish) time and thought they were both remarkably fresh faced for a couple of blokes who have put an awful lot of their energy into this fantastic place recently. The depot itself is currently a bit of a death star - operational but incomplete. Phase 2 will be something to behold, somebody needs to show Olly how to work that camera and get some more shots on flickr....
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Went on Sunday for 'a quick look' ended up bouldering for three hours... What is open at the moment is amazing: great use of the space, good angles and good transitions between the different angles. The setting was also generally very good, as is the range of holds (lots of core and slap, plus the better shapes that holdz have to offer). Once the back bit is open, with the promise of a very large training board, campus boards and finger boards it should be pretty much unsurpassed as a training venue. Good work guys!
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amazing changing rooms
I thought the police said if there was a repeat of the incident at the climbing works then you would be locked up for good this time?
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Visited The Depot for the first time on friday. I was very impressed with the facilities and the problem setting.
The environment is light, airy and very well lit. There is ample storage space for belongings and a comfortable lounge for chilling between sessions. The only main problem I foresee facilities-wise is that, if the wall gets the traffic it deserves, parking will be a bitch! The cake I took home for supper was good too. Although, on reflection I suspect that I should have ignored the recommendation for a blueberry muffin and opted for cinnamon - a better combination with custard you see!
All of the above is nice, but nothing without decent problems. Frankly my dears, I don't give a damn about changing and shower facilities. Like a medieval monk I believe a healthy stench keeps the demons out, and that lice are "God's Pearls". Happily the setting, at least on my vist, did not disappoint - being strenusous and interesting.
You see, when I go to a wall my priority is to come away stronger for the experience, as compensation for the shame of not having climbed outdoors. Regardless of my taste for gritstone foot-faggotry, I'm not keen on smeary, technical problems indoors; "man in a box" style palming and bridging leaves me cold. For instance, at The Works I tend to stick to the Competition Wall - many of the circuit problems often leave me with the unwelcome feeling that I'm failing because of a lack of beta. I prefer to be presented with the doubt-free delineation of strong versus weak (and the less said the better about walls that present tenuous low-percentage moves at an uncomfortable height above pointy volumes). I seem to be one of the few people who loves the Leeds Wall's concentration on steep, unremitting, and relatively straight-forward tests of prowess (that I'm one of the few people with a comparable wing-span to Dave Cowl may be a factor in this!). I sadly suspect that if I designed a wall it would be an uninterupted 30-degree overhang studded with crimps!
The Depot appears, from one visit admittedly, to provide a compromise between my base instincts and the opinions of those mentally balanced types who want to have fun. The circuits are of around 20 problems and each covers an overlapping two V-grade band (i.e. V1-2, V2-3, V3-4 etc) - so there appears to be plenty of scope for every ability. The facility itself has a varied architecture with a range of angles and shapes - largely gently over-hanging, but with lots of prows, a horizonal roof, and a particularly nice convex overhang that I just wish was bigger. Most importantly though, the problems themselves were very good - lots of the positive pulling that I crave, but with enough invention to assuage any boredom. I came away satisfied, feeling thoroughly "worked", enthused by some of the interesting moves I had performed, and wanting an excuse to return and pit a fresh body against some unfinished business.
Who knows, maybe my visit was a one-off - like a great first album: superb because it's been a lifetime in the making - thoroughly honed before its presentation to the public. Perhaps, when the holds have lost their lovely grippiness and setting has become a chore it will no better than any other rainy-day retreat. Let's face it: there will never be a wall that, I'll walk out from afterwards and, on finding that it's now sunny, not curse my decision to drive away from Almscliff. Still, I had a good time... and it was raining hard when I left.....
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I can't wait to be back in Leeds...
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For instance, at The Works I tend to stick to the Competition Wall - many of the circuit problems often leave me with the unwelcome feeling that I'm failing because of a lack of beta. I prefer to be presented with the doubt-free delineation of strong versus weak (and the less said the better about walls that present tenuous low-percentage moves at an uncomfortable height above pointy volumes). I seem to be one of the few people who loves the Leeds Wall's concentration on steep, unremitting, and relatively straight-forward tests of prowess (that I'm one of the few people with a comparable wing-span to Dave Cowl may be a factor in this!). I sadly suspect that if I designed a wall it would be an uninterupted 30-degree overhang studded with crimps!
These statements don't add up. ;)
Next time you're at The Works I would recommend eschewing the heel hooking faggotry of the Comp Wall for one of the two boards, both of which would appear to fit the bill MUCH better! One is a 30 degree board studded with crimps and the other is the best example of a "doubt-free delineation of strong versus weak" I have ever encountered.
;D
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i always refer to it as the board that broke jasper
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I'm fixed now and did both sides of a symmetrical problem on it on Friday. It wasn't very hard but still. 8)
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Next time you're at The Works I would recommend eschewing the heel hooking faggotry of the Comp Wall for one of the two boards, both of which would appear to fit the bill MUCH better! One is a 30 degree board studded with crimps and the other is the best example of a "doubt-free delineation of strong versus weak" I have ever encountered.
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My statements add-up when you consider that I'm a rare visitor to the works - I've only been once since the boards were installed. So, for 99% of my Works visits it has been straight choice between the Comp Wall and the circuits - and I find the former a better fit to my taste for the steep and easy to read.
To be honest though I doubt I'm strong enough to do anything on the Beastmaker boards anyway. I'd just spend 10 minutes failing to pull-on before skulking away hoping nobody noticed!
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You'd like the 30 degree board I reckon Moose. Lots of good crimpy problems and the easiest is 6C.
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i always refer to it as the board that broke jasper
And I always refer to it as the board that made you.
(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4696/leecrushing.jpg) (http://img11.imageshack.us/my.php?image=leecrushing.jpg)
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i've still got them pants
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Have you still got the shorts? Girlfriend you were on FIRE that weekend!
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1486/leeonshallowgroove.jpg) (http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=leeonshallowgroove.jpg)
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How dare you desecrate sacred monuments! ;)
I went to the depot on wednesday night and had a fantastic time. A very short warm-up was followed by flashing all but two of the reds - that's 20 in total- and spending the rest of my time there knackered. A great circuit, a lovely building, Steve and Olly were very friendly and helpful, the place feels open and light- unlike the works where some areas are dark and dismal, the problems are very well set, and they've got loads of space to expand into too- all the amkings of a winning training venue! Congratulations on all the hard work Steve and Olly, I'll definitely be seeing you in the near future!
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Had pretty much the same experience as andy some time last week doing the same red circuit. All the problems were good fun, the one over the steep/roofy barrel being the hardest and best. Did some of the pinks and some yellows which were all quality too. Having chattted to olly a bit they seem really keen for feedback... Couldn't think of anything at the time as I'd enjoyed mesen but it occured to me later that clarification of rules might be worth putting somewhere for some. For instance, I was a bit unsure on how to start a few of the reds. As in, sitting, squatting, standing? Matched on the first tagged hold? Volumes,aretes,etc. in for hands and feet or just feet? Personally, not that bothered as I just cheat if in doubt and often avoid grim vert wall sit starts and the like but anyway, that's my only slight critisism of phase 1. Which isn't bad going at all - nice work olly and steve.
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Just got back from our first visit today and have come away very impressed. They seemed to have combined all the good things that other walls have to offer in one there, from great music to nice toilets etc. I ll defo go back for more.
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For me The Depot is great and when the cardio room and the extension is sorted then it will be even better, esp for the crushers such as the Stallion Crew who I met last night.
One complaint is of the lack of poontang. The Leeds Wall seems to attract far more fillies to gawp at. Next time I'll wear my tight tights and see what we can't reel in from Oddfellows :dance1:
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such as the Stallion Crew who I met last night.
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Next time I'll wear my tight tights
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Andi and Will,
such as the Stallion Crew who I met last night.
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Next time I'll wear my tight tights
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Skool starts at 5pm Tuesday. Pop it like its hot.
(http://bp3.blogger.com/_cLoZG1basWQ/SF9abOXWArI/AAAAAAAAAP8/zhx3-6misps/s400/popped-collars.jpg)
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Epic! This is going to be a good year for yorkshire climbers...
Why, are you all moving nearer to Hobson Moor?
:lol: :lol:
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Exams, sorry. Anyway, I heard what you did to poor Stubbs...
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(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b241/masterfulX/1210396234345.jpg)
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Way ahead of you. Count these babies. And like I said to your mother - "you'll need both hands"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonfresh/3037281097/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonfresh/3037281097/)
Skool may now be on Thursday(if you sort out your priori-tays.)
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Epic! This is going to be a good year for yorkshire climbers...
Why, are you all moving nearer to Hobson Moor?
:lol: :lol:
Like a fine wine, they get better with age.
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(http://threetreesstudios.com/andscifi/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/death_star_brainstorming.jpg)
Back at the depot tonight, and my, how things are coming on. In a matter of weeks it will become "fully operational".
Had a look-see at the 'back room' and I have to say I have never seen anything like it, the semi-boarded out "cave" is jaw-dropping. I've pestered Brolly to post a pic, which would be nice.
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Robertostallioni, do you mean a pic like this....
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3488/3755604560_4a0dc353c8.jpg)
Big up to the Bowers brothers (Luke and Arron) and Andy Chapman for progress so far.
Estimated time till fully operational is early Sept.
Any feedback welcome.
Cheers Ol
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Wowsers!!
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Parisella's in ply.....
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Looks a bit slabby :jaw: Still it'll be good training for Kilnsey...
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Masters courses at Leeds uni yyfy?! :thumbsup:
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do it beast ;)
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Went today, it's the best indoor climbing facility I have ever been to and with the new developments we got shown today, it will be the perfect training venue... especially the woody and that gigantic roof :jaw:
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The woody has definitely not got enough press. Supreme stuff.
The roof is definitely going to be star of the show. Got given the tour by Brolly today and the thing is enormous. There is so much potential for everything but in vertical. Big rising traverses, dynos etc etc. Seriously. This is going to blow everything out of the water. And if they open it on a comp day...
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Not long to wait now...
(http://www.forfun.us/funpic/1225200889-Sexy-Star-Wars-Costumes-Picture-Gallery.jpg)
Went today. Had another look see round 'back. Everything is now fully plyed out, including Campus boards. There is a 9 metre deep, 11 metre wide 80 degree 'roof' - and some other stuff. And Olly was trying to tell me about some thrutchy overhanging corner. I worry about him.
Cannot be far away now but I guess, as usual, it will come down to the matting.
I cannot wait....how 'bout choo?
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2LhZ2o6D9GY/SXuLSnTvj5I/AAAAAAAAACY/zlOMMBSNb4E/s400/Funny_Pictures_Star-Wars_Lack_of_Faith.jpg)
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Can't wait! Does that mean that the flared chimney horror has been left in? Just on the right as you go in. It looks fun but with much potential for serious hardness.
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Yes. Olly was extolling its virtues, and I was just thinking about prolapsing my rectum. No doubt the site of a few :spank:
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Nearly there, just finishing a few things and in the process of getting the matting fitted....
Will be opening the back section on the 11th with a fun comp and party. I've posted in the comp thread or just go to www.theclimbingdepot.com (http://www.theclimbingdepot.com) for full details.
Thought I'd squeeze a last couple of photos in before we have finished.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/3877419829_0d66352c0a.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3877474443_ca331bd51a.jpg)
Any questions please let me know (or pm me).
Cheers Ol
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:jaw:
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oh no, that roof looked so pure. its been unadulterated by volumes....
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oh no, that roof looked so pure. its been unadulterated by volumes....
:agree: They totally spoil it but hey, people like them for some reason.
The wall looks absolutely amazing but how high is that roof? I'm just thinking about the PaulB style injury potential. Doesn't look as if you'd want to be flying off it out of control from even half way up.
I might note that this is only out of interest. I would never climb anything so high, not out of fear but because I'd be totally pumped by about five moves in.
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Concerns have been voiced but The Depot have rightly pointed out that the roof is in fact no higher than the rest of the walls. It just looks bigger becuase its so big.
This doesn't stop the fact that there's plenty of punters and wee ones who will be dying to get fallen on as they ramble around underneath it. Coming off during a big swing could also be a bit dodgy.
Keep those first aid kits at the ready.
Also, why does it have to open on my mum's birthday?! :devangel:
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Also, why does it have to open on my mum's birthday?! :devangel:
Get her to come along!!
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oh no, that roof looked so pure. its been unadulterated by volumes....
sorry a moment of blind rage and insanity caused by the volumes.
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Completely understandable. Volume rage has a lot to answer for.
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Completely understandable. Volume rage has a lot to answer for.
At least on a roof volumes wont take out your chin/face/bollocks as you fall past them like they do on more vertical walls...
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All this talk of training boards on the other thread, so I thought I'd post a photo of ours. It's hard to get the full perspective from the shot, so the approx dimensions (off the top of my head) 4 meter wide by 5 meter long, at 50 degree and covered in Beastmaker holds. This is also opening next Friday as it's part of our phase II. We may have 2 of the harder comp problems on the board...
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/3890642092_6cda04a860.jpg)
Cheers Ol
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That looks fucking amazing. I am tempted to sack the comp on Friday and just play on there :devangel:
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I'm only interested in where the easier problems will be set. Can you email me with the beta up to 4c/5a (juggy basic problems only)?
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dobbin have you hacked into lagerstarfish's account?
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Beer, philosophy, birds, lagers junior , general abuse of jasper
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Food. Don't forget food. Lagers never does.
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:agree: