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 [...]
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Things move on, things change and change is good. With the dawn of the new bouldering area at Rockcity, the Bloccity boulder only membership option and 150+ new, higher, longer boulder problems there is one question that has been asked repeatedly – ‘what will happen to the Moon Wall?’ With everybody focusing on the new [...]
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 [...]
You are invited to an evening of bouldering at Rockcity. The new area will be ready for the official opening on Wednesday 11th January 2012 at 7pm. The opening will be done by Neil Gresham, the UKs training guru. Both Neil and Gaz Parry will be available to give you tips on how to improve [...]
Happy New Year to all you climbers. As a great way to start the new year we have arranged for climbing training guru Neil Gresham to come and give you some tips and advice. Neil will be here for the opening of the new bouldering area later in this month and is going to be [...]
This is just what you need. You have been climbing (or trying to climb) the routes Gareth set last month on the Alcove Lead Wall and then we post a quick video of Gareth climbing them. To take the biscuit Gareth manages to get a cheeky hands free rest on a vertical section of the [...]