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technogeekery

31/07/2012
3:25:21 PM

forget a woodie - how much fun would one of these be?

http://www.eldowalls.com/silverthorne/

when I'm rich & famous...

pmonks

31/07/2012
3:51:28 PM

I've never quite seen the point to be honest, unless a houseful of chalk-dust-encrusted belongings and the delicate but all-pervasive aroma of sweaty climbing shoes floats your boat...

Big G

31/07/2012
4:10:02 PM

On 31/07/2012 technogeekery wrote:
>forget a woodie - how much fun would one of these be?
>
>http://www.eldowalls.com/silverthorne/
>
>when I'm rich & famous...

when i'm rich and fam,ous i'll be able to to go around the world climbing real rocks and take a day off whenever the wether is good enough to climb!

technogeekery

31/07/2012
4:17:01 PM

i really like the idea - appeals to the kid in me - and would definitely appeal to my kids. We have 8m high roof in our house, and one of the end walls would be a natural for this. But as my wife points out, St peters gym is 5 mins away and building this would cost about 300 years membership...

MarcusfromHamilton

31/07/2012
4:17:42 PM

Those auto belays they're using are pretty cool too.

Edward Oslabofvic

31/07/2012
4:51:25 PM

On 31/07/2012 pmonks wrote:
>I've never quite seen the point to be honest, unless a houseful of chalk-dust-encrusted
>belongings and the delicate but all-pervasive aroma of sweaty climbing
>shoes floats your boat...

Like the time I came home from a climbing trip to find my house mate and a certain DaveJ had turned our lounge room into climbing gym.

I can't say my boat was floated, but I did participate, and yes, everything in the whole house was coated in chalk dust

Rocksinmyhead

31/07/2012
8:02:38 PM

On 31/07/2012 MarcusfromHamilton wrote:
>Those auto belays they're using are pretty cool too.

They may look cool but they ain't a joy to use. These are installed on the wall at my local Virgin gym, and apart from the crappy route setting, are probably the reason I'm the only one who ever seems to use the wall.

Apart from the constant feeling of being hauled, I still find it scary every time to trust the mech, as you fall about a meter before it fully engages. Not something that inspires confidence, I'd much prefer a belayer.

Good looking wall though. I like vertical. As for the chalk dust, if you could afford the wall you could afford cleaners, or some industrial suction fans.

Duang Daunk

31/07/2012
8:12:06 PM

On 31/07/2012 Rocksinmyhead wrote:
>Good looking wall though. I like vertical. As for the chalk dust, if you
>could afford the wall you could afford cleaners, or some industrial suction
>fans.

Get some chockstone posters onto the case. Some of them suck horribly!

Eduardo Slabovic

31/07/2012
8:27:08 PM

On 31/07/2012 Duang Daunk wrote:

>Get some chockstone posters onto the case. Some of them suck horribly!

Is that from personal experience? Please tell...

Duang Daunk

31/07/2012
8:41:20 PM

On 31/07/2012 stugang wrote:
>On 31/07/2012 Duang Daunk wrote:
>
>>Get some chockstone posters onto the case. Some of them suck horribly!
>
>Is that from personal experience? Please tell...

I know you will swallow anything posted, but back to the original post to get on topic agin.
Wot R U gunna do when U R
>rich & famous...
?

Eduardo Slabovic

31/07/2012
9:57:24 PM

On 31/07/2012 Duang Daunk wrote:

>
>I know you will swallow anything posted, but back to the original post
>to get on topic agin.
>Wot R U gunna do when U R
>>rich & famous...
>?

Easy...make you to blow my neighbours tomcat for $50 (without a Kevlar neck protector).

dalai

31/07/2012
10:27:54 PM

On 31/07/2012 Eduardo Slabofvic. wrote:

>Like the time I came home from a climbing trip to find my house mate and
>a certain DaveJ had turned our lounge room into climbing gym.
>
>I can't say my boat was floated, but I did participate, and yes, everything
>in the whole house was coated in chalk dust

The Old Cardigan street woodie? If so, great little wall to train on - but did take up prime realestate in the main living room!

Duang Daunk

1/08/2012
9:09:52 AM

On 31/07/2012 stugang wrote:
>>Wot R U gunna do when U R
>>>rich & famous...
>>?
>
>Easy...make you to blow my neighbours tomcat for $50 (without a Kevlar
>neck protector).

That says a lot about your choice of pussy, and not so latent s+m tendency.

As far as the expensive climbing wall in the house goes, it'd be great for a little while but once you have the 3 moves dialled what would you do next?

grangrump

1/08/2012
8:04:00 PM

On 31/07/2012 Eduardo Slabofvic. wrote:
>... everything in the whole house was coated in chalk dust

Tiddly pom, tiddly pom,tiddly pom: pof, pof, pof

Eduardo Slabovic

1/08/2012
9:14:01 PM

Tiddling a pom - man you are sick.

PS. Eduardo's doesn't have a Whopper. The only reason he needs two hands to scratch or rub anything is that his hands are so small he needs two hands to scratch his chin.

MarcusfromHamilton

4/08/2012
7:29:11 PM

This is an alternative:

http://io9.com/5907776/this-is-the-rock+climbing-wall-of-the-future

the changeable route in the video is kinda cool.

PDRM

6/08/2012
10:43:24 AM

On 4/08/2012 MarcusfromHamilton wrote:
>This is an alternative:
>
>http://io9.com/5907776/this-is-the-rock+climbing-wall-of-the-future
>
>the changeable route in the video is kinda cool.

Wouldn't look so flash once you'd smeared chalk all over it...

P

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