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5 Key Safety Steps When You Clip 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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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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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 ...
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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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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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Product Comparison: What’s New About the TRUBLUE iQ Series
At its core, going on an adventure is an act of self-empowerment. Obviously, it might not always feel that way. The weather changes, the rain starts to fall, and there you are, stuck on the wall with no other option but to wait it out.Unfortunately, self-empowerment doesn’t make you waterproof. ...
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Technology to Improve the Accessibility of Your Facility
I give notoriously bad beta. Just ask anyone who has ever climbed with me. There is nothing I like more than mushing myself into a corner, dropping my knee at an odd angle, flipping my elbow inside out, and pressing my palm flat against the wall. Essentially, turning myself into a human ...
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Watch Chris Sharma Climb the Crux on TRUBLUE iQ+
When you think of Chris Sharma, the first thing to come to mind probably isn’t falling. He was, after all, widely considered the best sport climber in the world for over a decade.So no, when you think of Chris Sharma, the first things to come to mind are probably his sends, rather than his ...
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