What grades you climbing?
We added a board about 10-15 degrees which is useful for both warming up on and also for working the fingers. It is set with very few good foot holds, several abysmal footholds, lots of slopers and poor pinches but crucially has a fair few 5mm edges which are hard to crimp. So it is a very useful addition to our main board.
Rginns I think you've took my post completely wrong. I didn't mean crap grades at all, what I meant was if you've been using a campus board and find it tedious you must actually be quite strong. It takes a lot more strength to use a campus board than to climb sub 7's. In your post after mine you've said you don't get out often and don't have much focus, from reading between the lines I'd say you can certainly climb harder than you're claiming you're just not doing so. Nor did I intimate that you couldn't do anything on a campus board, see above.As you can see I actually have a lot of beef with people or with coaches who get climbers to use a campus board at a *lowly level. It's just plain dangerous. There's a massive difference between someone who doesn't get out much since they're out in the sticks and someone who's just plain crap who shouldn't be anywhere near a simple but effective piece of equipment that puts forces through their bodies that they can't handle yet.I'd build the twenty like people have said, putting a mixture of hold types on. Then just use the boards religiously, in a very short space of time your hard projects of today are warm ups or you don't do them again since they're too easy.
I actually derive much more enjoyment from training on the board anyway than any other monotonous, specific tool.
Nah, Dense is right - you're just crap. If you want any T nuts etc let me know. I've chopped all the remaining wood I had left over I'm afraid.A 20 would be useful I think. As Dense and others have said, a good choice of holds will be important. And get some pinches on your steep board!!
Calling yourself a tool is a bit unfair though.
Then just use the boards religiously, in a very short space of time your hard projects of today are warm ups or you don't do them again since they're too easy.
Quote from: a dense loner on January 30, 2014, 03:42:33 amRginns I think you've took my post completely wrong. I didn't mean crap grades at all, what I meant was if you've been using a campus board and find it tedious you must actually be quite strong. It takes a lot more strength to use a campus board than to climb sub 7's. In your post after mine you've said you don't get out often and don't have much focus, from reading between the lines I'd say you can certainly climb harder than you're claiming you're just not doing so. Nor did I intimate that you couldn't do anything on a campus board, see above.As you can see I actually have a lot of beef with people or with coaches who get climbers to use a campus board at a *lowly level. It's just plain dangerous. There's a massive difference between someone who doesn't get out much since they're out in the sticks and someone who's just plain crap who shouldn't be anywhere near a simple but effective piece of equipment that puts forces through their bodies that they can't handle yet.I'd build the twenty like people have said, putting a mixture of hold types on. Then just use the boards religiously, in a very short space of time your hard projects of today are warm ups or you don't do them again since they're too easy. :agree:Bang on Dense, do this Pasty