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Umbrella Nine Bouldering Gym

Martym

13-Dec-2019
2:50:08 PM

Does anyone know who is behind the soon-to-be-opened Umbrella Nine bouldering gym at Warringah Mall?

It's going to be my new closest gym but... $20 an hour for bouldering..

dalai

13-Dec-2019
3:59:42 PM

Per hour? Ouch!

jacksonclimbs

18-Dec-2019
3:08:50 PM

In an increasingly competitive market, they may struggle to charge an hourly rate.

Unsure about Sydney but I think by mid 2020 Melbourne will have 15 climbing gyms, 7 of which are solely bouldering. On top of that we have 2 outdoor bouldering walls and 4 of those 'clip n climb' novelty childrens gyms.

dalai

18-Dec-2019
3:57:34 PM

On 18-Dec-2019 jacksonclimbs wrote:

>Unsure about Sydney but I think by mid 2020 Melbourne will have 15 climbing
>gyms, 7 of which are solely bouldering.

Seems to be new bouldering gyms opening almost weekly!

E. Wells

18-Dec-2019
8:24:55 PM

Maybe all the competition will result in an affordable indoor boulder session. The price of an indoor boulder session has doubled in ten years. Impressive gyms none the less. The hourly time limit is weird. Sounds like a creche.

gordoste

19-Dec-2019
12:50:01 PM

The website says there is no enforcement of the hour limit.

I suspect the plethora of gyms will send many of them out of business.

Duang Daunk

19-Dec-2019
1:57:17 PM

On 18-Dec-2019 E. Wells wrote:
>Maybe all the competition will result in an affordable indoor boulder session.
>The price of an indoor boulder session has doubled in ten years. Impressive
>gyms none the less. The hourly time limit is weird. Sounds like a creche.

True.
Eh bro, you do trad yeh? I see where your climbing perspective is coming from re crèche statement.
Not sure from your other posts about your blasé sport ethic of bolting or climbing TO significant places though.

E. Wells

19-Dec-2019
3:21:55 PM

That would be painstakingly slow. Like a certain Monty Python sketch.

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