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 teaches others how to build things out of wood. What has this got to do with [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]