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Melbourne CBD Gym 2007 8-Feb-2007 At 2:22:19 PM cliffhanger

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At the risk of also copping a serve.... i agree! climbers pay to climb on a variety of walls and routes - something that can be changed regularly to make it constantly interesting!!

On 28/11/2006 garbie wrote:
>Yeh the policy of not reclipping top ropes is a strange one, don't understand
>the reason. Top-ropers need some steepish climbing too, or a rooflet or
>two, and the swings are dangerous. If you design the gym to avoid swings,
>it's not going to be steep enough.
>
>Also can't understand the reason for staying with the concrete walls.
>I'll risk getting a serve from Sue, but I can't see why you would build
>a wall that you can't screw things onto - jibs, blisters, volumes, modular
>cracks etc etc. (Not to mention it costing double or more). Sure it looks
>impressive to the general public, & I suppose this venue is going after
>that sort of market.