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Title: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: Juan on October 04, 2013, 09:53:57 am
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 (http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s.asp?sid=07zhq7tsle1vcga343902)
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: Wood FT on October 04, 2013, 10:59:05 am
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
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: Stubbs on October 04, 2013, 11:07:18 am
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Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: Durbs on October 04, 2013, 12:02:52 pm
Use pitta bread.
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: Juan on October 04, 2013, 05:11:43 pm
Well taco folds are for tacos, burrito folds are for burritos.....I think you could be onto something here
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: tomtom on October 04, 2013, 06:14:17 pm
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...
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: robertostallioni on October 04, 2013, 06:21:47 pm
Already done TomTom. Reado del spielio.

http://snapclimbing.com/en/crash-pads/111-wrap.html (http://snapclimbing.com/en/crash-pads/111-wrap.html)
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: tomtom on October 04, 2013, 06:45:07 pm
Already done TomTom. Reado del spielio.

http://snapclimbing.com/en/crash-pads/111-wrap.html (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...
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: andyd on October 04, 2013, 07:28:41 pm
I'd like a pad with an element of SPIT (self-positioning-intuition-technology).
Title: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: tomtom on October 05, 2013, 09:57:11 am
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)
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: SA Chris on October 05, 2013, 01:31:54 pm
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)
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: andyd on October 05, 2013, 04:38:24 pm
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?'
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: tomtom on October 11, 2013, 04:16:36 pm
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"
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: honroid on October 11, 2013, 06:25:35 pm
Survey done. Loving the SNAP wrap, build quality could be better though
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: Moo on October 13, 2013, 10:15:17 pm
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.
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: SA Chris on October 14, 2013, 09:49:00 am
I'd thought of that, but not sure it's possible. As soon as you load it surely it will just pop out?
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: tomtom on October 14, 2013, 09:51:40 am
A bag of ready mix concrete and some water would do the job perfic... ;)
Title: Re: Bouldering Pad Design Project
Post by: SA Chris on October 14, 2013, 10:04:37 am
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).
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