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Melbourne CBD Gym 2007 29-Nov-2006 At 6:11:04 PM Ben

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Just to add my $0.20 I climb at nuna hardrock an awful lot, and I do not generally have any problems with people swinging around. You get the odd problem with people (often beginners) using the wrong rope and thus risking a sideways pendulum. This is normally corrected by the staff (or other climbers) pretty quickly.

The main culprit used to be the articlating/hydrolic wall which is steep. Beginners would ethusiastically hop on here and then swing out massively 3 meters later. With this wall now being lead only it's fixed the problem.

Otherwise I haven't seen any swinging problems for ages at hardrock.

Maybe I just don't notice them anymore?

Or perhaps it's just what you are used to. Obviously it is a much larger concern if you are climbing on the big steep ame wall at cliffhanger which is massively overhung and definately needs reclipping on toprope. (I recall the reclipping being harder than the initial climbing).

Do any walls at Cliffhanger other than the AME wall and the strange rooflet clip require reclipping? It's been a while since I was there last.