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Rock vs Plastic 2-Nov-2009 At 9:46:50 AM garbie

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On 31/10/2009 pmonks wrote:

>BTW, for anyone who's ever in SF and looking for a good workout, the bouldering
>at the new Planet Granite gym in Crissy Field is awesome - the best indoor
>bouldering I've seen. href="http://www.planetgranite.com/dependentfiles/quicktime/SF_B
>uldering.mov">This clip shows the downstairs section - the area you're
>looking at by default is a free standing block where all of the problems
>top out (including on the heinously overhanging prow on the right hand
>side). The grades are on the soft side too, which is nice for the ego.
> ;-)
>
Yeh most of that bouldering looks pretty good, but is that flooring thick enough, I notice
a couple of extra mats laying around.

>>Peter, come in for a climb next time you're here and tell us what you
>>think of our routes vs the US gyms.
>
>Yeah I'm keen to check it out. I used to go to the old Summer Hill gym
>a bit, but haven't seen the new one. Unfortunately I tend to stay on the
>lower North Shore when I'm back home, so end up at ClimbFit (assuming I
>can't get to Lindfield Rocks!), which sucks balls.
>
>Just out of interest, do you still have all of Mikl's home made wooden
>holds in the bouldering area? It used to be a lot of fun to describe problems
>with his "creative" hold names. ;-)
Afraid most of Mikl's homemades have been consigned to history, not considered sexy
enough nowadays. We used to like making up our own problems using the hold names,
playing add-ons or whatever - all of the holds on the summer hill woody had a name
(mostly girls names for some reason). I think it was decided to do away with that
system at St Peters and set problems for everybody because "thats what people want",
but I'd like to go back to the old system on at least a section of the woody - anybody up
for that?