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Percy B
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#275 Re: new wall in shef
October 27, 2006, 09:53:00 pm
For those who are interested, The Climbing Works will also be sporting grips from the following manufacturers. Moon Climbing have kindly donated a ruck of bespoke plastic for our training board. Revolution (the artists formally known as pusher) have shipped a ton of grips for our walls, as have SoIll. Straight outta Slovenia come a load of lovely Lapis creations, as well as holds from Holdz, and Metolius have also come up with the goods for us. The Axis stuff is the icing on the cake. And that'll be 7500 of the finest resin grips on the planet all in one space at one time. That lot locked up with me and the ginger ninja for a coupla weeks, and you know whats going to happen...... DIRT!
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MattH
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#276 Re: new wall in shef
October 31, 2006, 11:04:53 am
Just added a recruitment page to the site, and also a list of the lucky people who got themselves a discounted membership.
www.climbingworks.com
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r-man
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#277 Re: new wall in shef
October 31, 2006, 12:36:56 pm
From the design page, it looks like just left of the training board, a large roof joins the end wall into the circuit areas. Haven't seen any photos of this yet - what sort of size is it going to be?
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#278 Re: new wall in shef
October 31, 2006, 05:48:21 pm
hope you get some bleaustone in there perc.
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Dave Westlake
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#279 Re: new wall in shef
October 31, 2006, 06:03:44 pm
yeah bleustone holds are the shiznit
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Percy B
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#280 Re: new wall in shef
October 31, 2006, 08:42:56 pm
No Bleaustone at the moment. Maybe one day, but we can't afford them right now, as you can imagine. Then again, we got some amazing holds already - ones most folks out there will never have seen before, so brace yourselves....
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unclesomebody
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#281 Re: new wall in shef
October 31, 2006, 09:10:01 pm
Got an opening date yet?
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Percy B
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#282 Re: new wall in shef
October 31, 2006, 09:25:48 pm
Official opening date is the 9th of December, but we should start letting people in a couple of weeks before this date. Keep an eye on the website and we'll let everybody know as soon as all systems are go.
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Doylo
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#283 Re: new wall in shef
October 31, 2006, 10:17:26 pm
Planning to use any wooden holds Percy?
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Percy B
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#284 Re: new wall in shef
November 01, 2006, 10:09:45 am
Maybe.....
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r-man
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#285 Re: new wall in shef
November 01, 2006, 01:26:06 pm
Percy, have you got any big roofs?
Just looked at the blog - that's one caaraazy colour scheme. Reckon you need a few of these:
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Percy B
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#286 Re: new wall in shef
November 01, 2006, 05:51:24 pm
Its the resin fumes - sent me a bit psychedelic. At least, I think its the fumes
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#287 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 01:02:20 pm
just dropped off the grip tape for the slopey campus board and we stuck a bit on to have a bash............ I still have skin hoorah!
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Percy B
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#288 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 04:03:48 pm
The campus board is nearly finished -
Be afraid, everybody. Campusing at altitude! Stick your 1-5-9 shit. We got 1-5-9-13 and an extra rung to finish on!
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unclesomebody
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#289 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 04:22:59 pm
only 14 rungs? I was expecting 20 odd...
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Percy B
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#290 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 05:59:34 pm
Keith, a campus board starts at 6 foot off the deck. 14 rungs takes you another 10 feet (assuming standard 9 inch spacing, which the rungs obviously are). So when you hit the 14th rung you will be 16 feet of the deck. Any higher and you would need to be on a rope. And we don't do the rope thing. Trust me - you don't even want to see a 21 rung campus board. The 14 rung creation we just built is very, very big - and should be more than enough to meet most peoples campus requirements.
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#291 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 06:16:33 pm
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Percy B
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#292 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 06:21:46 pm
Aaahhh, the malnourished one. Too big for you, shagnasty, far too big! Highball campusing.
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Dr T
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#293 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 06:23:18 pm
any chance of a few pics of this monster in you blog Percy?
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Buoux 8C
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#294 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 06:51:23 pm
I concur with Percys' campus board theory. I had a look today and agree that you would not want to campus any higher without a rope. I can also confirm that i have never seen a campus board as big, and with as many rung selections.
May i suggest 'uncle' that you keep your moaning to yourself until you are able to campus the 'new' 1-5-9-13' benchmark.
Nowadays 1-5-9 is so old 'school' (no pun intended).
On a more serious note, the wall looks fantastic and near to completion. Good job guys.
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Percy B
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#295 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 08:12:33 pm
I'll try and post some piccies on the blog tommorrow.
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#296 Re: new wall in shef
November 03, 2006, 09:50:14 pm
sounds like campus-ing yosemite style, will there be bolts so i can put a porta ledge around rung 7!!!
is there a little areas for kids to boulder? my little 3 and ahalf old boy's really into bouldering. likes to jump onto the pads from as high he as he can go...
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Percy B
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#297 Re: new wall in shef
November 04, 2006, 09:12:01 pm
Picture of campus board now on the blog. Enlarge the picture so you can enjoy the expression on Longy's face! All I'm saying is I told you so. Now i'm off to pop my elbows in a couple of buckets of ice........
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#298 Re: new wall in shef
November 04, 2006, 09:42:20 pm
I've not responded to this thread yet, but now I'm going to:
1: A massive well done and good luck to everyone involved. Takes guts to step into the unknown with a new venture. I hope it's a massive commercial success.
2: The wall looks fu**ing awesome! I for one will be spending many sessions here over the winter.
3: The campus board looks incredible, a definite step up from my own 10 rung affair in my living room, and compromised, from my point of view, only by convenience (I can be on the bottom rung of my board within 7 seconds of waking up - a fact that has never actually been tested). I was talking to Rich today about the possibility of putting resting jugs or other holds under the central section between the boards so that you need never get off during you session.
4: Can I pop in and see it if I'm in Sheff this week?
5: See point 6.
6: Actually there is no point 6, point 5 was a bit misleading in that respect.
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Percy B
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#299 Re: new wall in shef
November 05, 2006, 09:54:32 am
Yes.
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