cassufrass wrote:
I am also opening a bouldering gym along with 2 partners. We are currently researching materials to build the gym. I'm only starting to look at prices, and my best estimate for materials is $50,000 I found that number by using a little over 1/2 the cost of a standard climbing gym. I just joined this forum today to find out more information on walls. I'd be interested in hearing about your product, email me any time. -cassspade@gmail.com
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Building a climbing gym for 100,000, seems very cheap to me. Ar you in the US? If so, you may need to reconsider you numbers. Walls and floor padding are apiece of the puzzle, but they are other cost related to construction firts, then operating.
[quote]Bare walls with lots of holds are much more cost effective than an eldo wall. But if you want realistic climbing that means you need the feet to resemble the stuff you climb on outdoors. Modular holds simply suck at duplicating outdoor foot holds or intermediates. Even lots of tiny screw-ons aren't very realistic and they soon polish to glass and are very unpleasant to climb on. A textured, featured eldo wall can give you some realistic moves but you can't change it and it costs a fortune for fixed realism you quickly get bored with.[/quote]
I like textured wall from an operations point of view, very versitile for sure.
[quote]There is an alternative. Rockpads - see photo. Joe's Valley - HP-40 quality sticky sandstone features that you screw on. The sticky sandstone feature is surrounded by a slick, no step poly outer forcing the climber to step into the feature and not blindly step down on the hold-wall join.
If you have ever watched a gym-learned climber use their feet they don't even bother to look at the hold. They just put their feet above the hold and slide it down to the join. When these climbers get outside they are clueless as to what actually constitutes a foothold and how to use it.
Rockpads not only provide amazingly realistic feet but also realistic crimps, edges, slopers and cracks for your hands. With a bunch of these you can turn a simple plywood vertical wall into something really fun and realistic to climb on. In fact - a simple plywood wall with a "gloss" paint finish and lots of these will give the most realistic climbing experience possible inside.
Now, I have a few questions - as a prospective gym owner how much would you be willing to pay for these things and does anyone want to try some of these things out as I am looking for beta testers?
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