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5 Steps to Remember When Clipping into a TRUBLUE Auto Belay
Once you’ve learned the basics, it’s easy to climb on a TRUBLUE Auto Belay. By following these five simple steps, you can get started quickly and keep climbing safely, route after route. Here’s what you need to know to get started.1. Check for webbing retractionAs you begin to climb, the ...
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Climbing on Auto Belay: What You Need to Know
The popularity of indoor climbing in particular has skyrocketed in recent years, driving huge demand for climbing wall access across a variety of facilities and, in some cases, kickstarting entirely new industries. For many climbers, the tendency is to think of this growth in terms of building new ...
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The Olympics are Over, but Speed Climbing is Here to Stay
It’s been over a year now since Sport Climbing made its Olympic debut, unveiling the highly controversial combined scoring format that gave equal weight to lead climbing, bouldering, and the relatively unknown speed climbing, and saw thousands of Ondra fans around the world crying foul (more on ...
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What is No Delay Belay?
One of the most common complaints we hear about auto belays is how much downtime is required for annual service appointments.
To be clear, an annual service appointment is mandatory for a device to stay in compliance with third-party safety standards like CE and ANSI. Since TRUBLUE Auto Belays ...
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Why More FECs Trust TRUBLUE Auto Belays
Family Entertainment Centers have an unusual challenge when it comes to designing climbing walls. For one thing, their core user base is almost entirely made up of kids and early teens, many of whom have never climbed before. As an additional challenge, the sheer quantity of users wanting to get on ...
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A Kid’s Guide to Gym Climbing (for Grown Ups)
For kids, learning to climb takes on a different meaning than it does for teens or adults. The benefits of climbing for child development are well documented. Climbing helps kids to improve their creative problem-solving skills, spatial awareness, coordination, strength, endurance, and ...
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Anleitung: Wie man eine Kletter-Selbstsicherung benutzt
Die Handhabung einer Selbstsicherung ist sehr einfach zu erlernen. Die korrekte Verwendung eines Sicherungsgeräts ist einfach und unkompliziert. Wie bei allem, was mit dem Klettern zu tun hat, ist es wichtig, schlechte Gewohnheiten zu vermeiden und von Anfang an die richtigen zu entwickeln. Die ...
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ROI Considerations for Climbing Walls at FECs
As climbing continues to grow in popularity and prominence, the role of climbing walls in Family Entertainment Centers is also in a state of flux. For years, climbing has been thought of as a secondary attraction by many FEC managers. However, for a variety of reasons, that perception is beginning ...
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Pitfalls to Building Community in Commercial Climbing Gyms
Have you ever stopped to think about how incredibly talented you are at using a fork? Unless you’ve got a toddler at home, I’m guessing the answer is probably no. After years of practice, each stab, swoop, jab, and scoop comes so naturally that you don’t even have to think about it ...
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5 Features Every Modern Climbing Gym Should Have
This cathedral for all things climbing is located fifteen minutes outside of Barcelona. The facility spans over 50,000 square feet and includes a colossal lead wall, two competition-ready speed walls, a one-of-a-kind bottomless bouldering area, and a 50ft auto belay mezzanine set up with 20 ...
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