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Postby Fred » Wed May 24, 2006 4:37 pm

we have decided to build a woody in our basement since we have been tied to home more these days.

Used holds donations would be greatly appreciated to get us started. We have zero holds at the moment but lumber has all been ordered.
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Postby Fred » Wed May 24, 2006 9:41 pm

who are the other canadian hold companies?

Teknik
Sequence
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Postby martha » Thu May 25, 2006 8:25 am

Okay,

now we have a huge amount of lumber in our basement. Tell you what.... if you guys have holds to donate.. we'll hold a mini comp with prizes of beer at our place. :)

With Baby's bedtime pretty early and Fred working loads of overtime lately we've found getting to the gym to be something we can only manage 1 or 2 times a week at the moment. This way we can climb after baby goes to bed. :)
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Postby granite_grrl » Thu May 25, 2006 9:21 am

A cheap way to increase the # of holds on your wall for very little money is by making wood jugs with scrap wood. I would also suggest checking out e-bay and even the used gear section on RC.com.

Good luck with your wall, but I don't really see a flood of used holds coming your way (but I guess this was worth a shot).

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Postby dcentral » Thu May 25, 2006 12:19 pm

Don't forget NICE climbing holds.

They've just redone their whole line of holds -- they are really cool. Plus they've made them out of a lighter composite so your ratio of holds to shipping costs is better.

http://niceclimbing.com/nice/
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Postby thicks » Thu May 25, 2006 3:13 pm

sale
(why didnt that url work?)


not much but it is on sale...
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Postby zig » Thu May 25, 2006 3:46 pm

some of the best holds, shapes that work, good prices, and they are canadian:
http://www.teknikhandholds.com
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Postby granite_grrl » Thu May 25, 2006 7:32 pm

zig wrote:some of the best holds, shapes that work, good prices, and they are canadian:
http://www.teknikhandholds.com


Teknik holds are rad.
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Postby Ken P » Sun May 28, 2006 7:29 pm

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Postby martha » Sun May 28, 2006 9:08 pm

The UNB gym has tons of Teknik holds. And they are awesome, but we'd like to get some different ones from what we are used to climbing on.

We have ordered about 500$ worth of holds from MEC so most of them are Teknik and Metolious. It is a good start and will at least put some holds on the wall. We will now start adding some of the sweeter hold from each company.

The wall is complete now. we are just waiting for our hold order.
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Postby granite_grrl » Sun May 28, 2006 10:17 pm

Very nice! Do you have any pics?
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Postby martha » Mon May 29, 2006 7:40 am

Unfortunately the pics will have to wait until Fred does them with his D200. my P&S was stolen.

hopefully he'll get to that in a day or two!

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Postby thicks » Mon May 29, 2006 9:21 am

Ken P wrote:A how to guide:
http://www.alumilite.com/howto.cfm?ID=20


I feel like an old lady looking for some people to knit with(appologies to all you young knitters out there) but we should get together and try this sometime. Just like kindergarden arts and craft time. Any takers?
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Postby Fred » Mon May 29, 2006 11:57 am

I'd totaly be up for it.

Also, you should see the wicked limestone rock that Jon C gave me. I've bolted it on my wall and it's so rad (insert lame word here).
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Postby Fred » Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:02 pm

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Postby granite_grrl » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:48 am

Very nice! Thank for the pics. One thing that I enjoyed on our wall was large features to break up a regular flat section:

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Something to keep in mind if you start to get bored.

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Postby martha » Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:11 am

Ours has a full vertical section on the back wall. Kinda useless for fred cause he can grab the roof holds when he stands up on the bottom feet, but you can force yourself to climb through a variety of moves.

The main thing though about the vertical section is that it will be awesome for the kids to climb on. And that is super important to us. :) Gotta start 'em young!
ha!

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Postby Fred » Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:47 am

I dig the big features! I'll be good for now but you've definitely inspired me with your photos. We just got a big box full of holds on our door step this morning. Any guesses as to what I'll be doing tonight?

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Postby martha » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:03 am

Fred wrote: Any guesses as to what I'll be doing tonight?

cheers


Watching the baby while I climb? :wink:
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Postby Nate » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:55 am

If you're still looking for holds, look at Friction holds, they are really, really, really sweet...

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Postby cory » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:52 pm

Have you tried Ebay? Johanne got a massive set of jib-to-mediums From a start-up in the UK. I think it worked out to be about 2$/hold. The holds were reminiscent of the NICROS 'micros' and small/medium TECNIK. Nice contours, reasonable texture... a lot of 3 finger buckets, and 1.5 pad 4 finger sloping eeges. I think the set would fit in well with your angles... though they have others available too.

Can't wait to visit!
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Postby ahdont » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:14 pm

please tell me that this wall you are building is in moncton. please.

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Postby thicks » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:40 pm

nop, the elusive Moncton climbing wall has yet to show up. I think I am more likely (unfortunately) of believing in Santa, then a wall in moncton....
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