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in my apartment i would like to build a campus board but i have 8ft ceilings. has anybody successfully made a campus board in a similar space and if so tell me about your setup. i have plenty of floor space to work with and no i cant build one outside. thanks for your help if anybody has some info.

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A cousin of mine simply bolted a board to his ceiling and put a bunch of holds on it. No vertical movement, but you could campus around the room on the ceiling. Seemed like one way to make the best of a difficult workout room.

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I think he's talking about a campus board (spaced wooden rungs), not a collection of holds to campus on.

I dont have anything very critical to add other than I have toyed with the idea but come upon the problem of not having the means to sufficiently warm my body up for the stresses of campusing. Do you have a home wall to warm up on? I don't personally think a hangboard would provide sufficient warm up.

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Yes, I have and it worked just fine, the board also gave a extra good core workout because you have to keep your feet up.

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Yes, I have and it worked just fine, the board also gave a extra good core workout because you have to keep your feet up.

would you be willing to divulge some info on how you did this?

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Yes, I have and it worked just fine, the board also gave a extra good core workout because you have to keep your feet up.

would you be willing to divulge some info on how you did this?

Yes, sorry, What I did was build a frame in a "A" like shape and mounted the campus board on that, leave space for your legs to swing under. Sit down on the floor under the frame and reach up for an idea of where to start your first rung, make sure not to put the rung too low. Run your campus board all of the way to the ceiling. You will need a sheet of 5/8 plywood, some 1 1/2 screws, 6x 8 ft. 2x4's and of course some campus rungs at about 6 inches apart. I know this may be a bit confusing, if I had a scanner I would send you a diagram, I will see what I can do.

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is the A attached to the wall or just free standing? seems the stress of campusing would require it be attached to the wall...

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thanks for the input guys, i'm clearing my room out today to get and idea oh how much i want to do, and that idea that Cold Climb said about putting a board along the ceiling sounds like a good idea to do some campus traversing, i might build that as well.

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is the A attached to the wall or just free standing? seems the stress of campusing would require it be attached to the wall...

I made the frame separate from the wall, think of a narrow swing-set for your frame with the campus board mounted inside. You could also mount one to the wall of course but since there is alot of room to work with you might as well save yourself having to patch up drywall when you move. I made mine so it could fold up a be put against the wall.

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You know I was actually thinking about doing the same thing and I have the same problem. However, my hangboard is above my closet and I was thinking that maybe if I put another section of plywood next to my hangboard and mounted the campus rungs there, it might work. I only have about two and half feet of drywall from the top of my closet to my ceiling but essentially I only need three campus rungs spaced evenly apart, since I have less space I will just have to do more laps to get same workout from say, five or six rungs.

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Yeah, I've just recently finished building a campus board in my small office/back room. It is 4ft by 4ft with a row of jugs to warm up on. I made it 15 degree inclined and attached the top of the frame to the ceiling joist. I made it about 1 ft out from the wall to get some room to bring up my legs and used to 2 2 by 4's nailed together on both sides as column supports. Just simply put in a couple of blocks into the wall to keep down any sway on the big dynos and that is it. Probably have about 75 dollars in or so. I used metolius climbing's guide for building a campus board as a guide. One recommendation is to double up your 3/4" plywood as I only have a single sheet and it is fine for me (about 145 pounds) but when a larger friend gets on it buckles a bit under the weight. I have 8 large campus rungs spaced 6" apart (2X2's from lowes, typically run about an inch and a half by an inch and a half) and 11 small rungs spaced 4" apart (2 by 1's). At 16" wide this allows for about 8 jugs or so on the side to warm up on real good. Hope that helps.