If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]
Bloccity Indoor Bouldering
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 [...]
Tomorrow I Will Be Gone from Outcrop Films on Vimeo. We would like to introduce our latest routesetter, Micky Page. Mickey has recently set two new curcuits in la Cantina and will be joining us again later this month to add two more. Micky has lots of experience in both setting blocs and climbing them. [...]
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 [...]
Last week saw the opeing of La Cantina. This new wall is sponsored by La Sportiva and for the opening La Sportiva ran one of their climbing shoe demos. We decided that a demo photo comp was in order. Here is the winning picture. We think the the true spirit of La Sportiva is here. [...]
The highlights of last Wednesdays official opening of the La Sportiva, LA CANTINA at Rockcity in Hull. Featuring Neil Gresham and Gaz Parry testing some of the blocs, short interviews with Neil and Gaz, the local climbers devouring the problems and some of the dyno comp. This film gives you an idea of the climbing, [...]