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thoughts on bouldering pads


shay

5-Feb-2010
9:48:57 PM

On 5/02/2010 wallwombat wrote:
>Anyone have any experience with Red Chilli pads?
>
>I'm looking at getting another pad and the Red Chili that I'm looking
>at is 12cm thick, where as the others I am looking at are all 9cm thick.
>I reckon that extra 3cm might come in pretty handy.
>

I took one of these on my 7-month bouldering road trip in the USA and found that the foam went soft very quickly. It went so soft that by the end of the trip, you could feel the ground underneath after falling on it. I have since replaced the foam with a higher density one.


wallwombat

5-Feb-2010
9:52:12 PM

That's pretty soft for a 12cm pad. I might look elsewhere then.

Apparently they have upgraded the foam. How long ago was your trip to the US?


shay

6-Feb-2010
4:59:37 PM

On 5/02/2010 wallwombat wrote:
>That's pretty soft for a 12cm pad. I might look elsewhere then.
>
>Apparently they have upgraded the foam. How long ago was your trip to
>the US?

My trip was in 2008 and I had the pad only a few months before that. From memory, they just came out when I got mine.

Good to hear they have replaced the foam. I was suprised at how soft it went too! It lasted a total of two years, and kaput....gone-skis :(. In comparison, my Tools of the Adventure stuntpad is almost 6 years old and still going strong. The cover is a bit worn out now, especially the corners, but the foam is still ok.


wallwombat

6-Feb-2010
6:52:21 PM

It must have been a bit of a problem for Red Chili as they now seem to stress that the foam has been upgraded on their website and the write up for the pads.

My Venus pad is still going pretty strong and that's pretty damn old. I'd just like to get another pad as I often boulder by myself and basically two pads are better than one.

I'm tossing up whether to spend more $$ on the larger Red Chili pad and use my old pad to supplement that or spend less $$ on the the small Red Chili pad and use that to suppplement my old pad.

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