If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Another behinds the scene look at Rockcity and the people who make it happen. This time its Glen Chapman, resident problem maker. Glen by day is a carpentry teacher, after serving his time in a joinery yard, he now [...]
NICAS has been around for a while now. For those who dont know what it NICAS is then its the National Indoor Climbing Achievement Scheme set up by the Association of British Climbing Walls to fill the gap in there being a national syllabus that is transferable between different climbing centres around the UK. Its [...]
It sounds just like something from a shampoo advert but we have just added several volumes to La Cantina to break up those flat panels and turn it even more 3D. Deep in the darkest corners of Rockcity we have secretly been preparing the volumes for La Cantina. All new grippy surfaces give your bouldering [...]
The Times newspaper today reported on the inquest that followed an accident at an indoor climbing wall. A pensioner fell 30ft to his death from indoor climbing wall after tying a bowline instead of a figure of eight knot in his rope, an inquest heard. Climber David Rothman, 73, was described as a “meticulous” man [...]
Its official, climbers are more attractive… well we all knew that already but now the secret is out. The efforts of fitness expert Sam Murphy and Professor Richard Wiseman polled a staggering 6000 people and asked them to rank 15 different sports that they associated with amking the opposite sex more sexy. Top of the [...]
Rockcity is one of the original ‘dedicated indoor climbing centres’ of the early 1990′s. We take it for granted now but back then indoor climbing didnt stand on its own two feet, it was always a single climbing area of dubious quality within a mixed use council run sports centre. Within our region you had [...]