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 [...]
Behind the scenes
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 [...]
Here is a behind the scenes look at the route setting of Rockcity. We have tens of thousands of climbing holds which get regularly removed from the walls, cleaned and then reset, tested and graded, transforming them into fresh new routes and boulder problems. One of the most commonly asked questions is ‘how do we [...]
La Cantina, our new bouldering area at Rockcity is now open. With a packed out opening night with pro rock climbers Neil Gresham and Gaz Parry, supported by La Sportiva, the new La Cantina sponsors. A queue quickly formed as noone had had a chance to see the completed bouldering before the official opening. The [...]
Opening on Wednesday 11th January 2012 the new La Sportiva sponsored bouldering area at Rockcity has been named ‘La Cantina’. La Cantina is Italian for ‘cellar’ and as the original part of this vast new chamber was known simply as ‘the cellar’ we thought it was a great name for it, especially being sponsored by [...]
No, not New Kids on the Block, its New Grips on the Blocs. As preparation draws to an end we have today started setting the new boulder problems in the new bouldering extension. Zippy has had great fun exploring this new space and he has been working overtime setting awesome 3D puzzles for you to [...]