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Featured: the EVO-X hangboard

XC Evo-X
Say hello to the EVO-X, our latest addition to the XC family. This board was created during our own endeavour to take our finger strength to the next level during the 2020 spring COVID lockdown. We wanted more...errr less!? Here are some of the unique features of the EVO-X The first thing you notice is that the EVO-X is smaller than the ProEvo and Classic. And that is because we wanted to distill this thing down to a compact tool with just a few key components to help us all develop crazy finger strength. The second feature you will notice as you grab the board is that the edges have a symmetrical layout so that you maintain the same shoulder posture whether on the 30mm edges,...

Design and Build in photos

A picture is worth a thousand screws...errr...pull-ups....errr words! Here is a gallery of some of our design and build work this year. XC Training Lab training area Cortina360 gym, Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy Private Bouldering Wall and Campus Board, Florence, Italy 15m Boulder Wall for the Scuola alle Stimate, Verona, Italy From the BlogFeatured: the EVO-X hangboardJanuary 3, 2021Calibro 38 – The Second AscentSeptember 21, 2020Back to the Future (aka Tik Tok Sok)July 19, 2020Saudi Bolting Project 2019 – Part II of IIDecember 5, 2019

PLANNING YOUR GYM’S TRAINING SPACE

Climbing is mainstream, but that shouldn’t be news to you because The Dawn Wall was headline of the New York Times four years ago! Climbing’s inaugural foray into the Olympics is right around the corner and ‘Free Solo’ has won an Oscar Award. Gym climbing has transformed from climbers training for rock into a standalone sport and distinct lifestyle. What does that mean for climbing gyms? The climbing gym has become the new fitness gym, the yoga studio, the café, hangout, national team training centre, daycare, event centre and much more. It is a place to see and be seen; where every clique from the elite athlete to the dilettante congregate. The climbing gym can become the go-to spot for very diverse groups of people...

XC TRAINING LAB SERIES VOL. 5

Explore Climbing, Training, Climbing, Wood, Tools, Train, workout, Italy, handmade
In 2018 we have teamed up with Spit Magazine to bring you training beta to motivate and educate climbers about training tools, methods and offer some training inspiration for your own sessions. In this one, Volume 5, published in Spit Magazine n.8 August/September 2018 we are focused on suspended training tools. SUSPENDED TRAINING TOOLS Welcome to volume 5, the last of our introduction to the training laboratory. This month it’s all about suspended training tools. These are the tools that hang free, the gymnastic rings, hanging carrots and 10cm spheres, even suspended hangboards. You may even find a 30cm diameter sphere straight out of Star Wars in your gym and may the force be with you! The main differentiator of these tools from those which...

XC Training Lab Series Vol. 4

XC ProEvo Hangboard
In 2018 we have teamed up with Spit Magazine to bring you training beta to motivate and educate climbers about training tools, methods and offer some training inspiration for your own sessions. In this one, Volume 4, published in Spit Magazine n.7 June/July 2018 we highlight the hangboard, nigh ubiquitous in all gyms and many climbers' home. The Hangboard The concept of hanging from small edges, pockets and pinches is as old as training for elite rock climbing itself. Although the precise inventor of the modern hangboard as we know it is unknown, as early as the ‘80s legendary pioneers of hard climbing, the likes of John Bachar in America and Jerry Moffat and Wolfgang Güllich in Europe were screwing small pieces of wood onto...
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