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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 hangboardGennaio 3, 2021Calibro 38 – The Second AscentSettembre 21, 2020Back to the Future (aka Tik Tok Sok)Luglio 19, 2020Saudi Bolting Project 2019 – Part II of IIDicembre 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...

NEOM Project

Read here. In this blog we are heading back to Saudi Arabia where I got to bring the XC bolting team back, this time for a commercial related project. The project, NEOM, is located in the far north-west corner of Saudi Arabia and means “new future.” According to the website NEOM “is a bold and audacious dream…a vision of what a New Future might look like”. The official launch party was just as bold as their dream and I am very proud to have been able to involve the XC Bolting Team! The Request: Bring a team to the wilderness in NEOM to prepare a sport climb on which two “well known international climbers” would climb LIVE. The route should be objectively aesthetic, challenging and...

Saudi Bolting Project

The Saudi Bolting Project is the first major initiative of the recently created Saudi Climbing Federation. The Project: to professionally equip the first major sport climbing sites in Saudi Arabia. To the uninitiated, discussions of Saudi Arabia conjure imagery of arid desert landscapes, camels and perhaps also a harsh people. Read knows better, having lived next door in Oman for 9 years. When the Saudi Climbing Federation approached him to lead a team of equippers he was very excited. Along with us "Team Explore Climbing" - Read and Alex, we had accomplished climbers and great people, Piergiorgio Lotito A.Guida Alpina, and A.Guida Alpina and Explore Climbing athlete Carlo Giuliberti - the team's rope gun. We had the privilege to call two spectacular locations "home" for...

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...
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