Tag Archives: Community

It's fun to share your favorite activities with friends and family, and as climbers, we want to introduce everyone in our life to the vertical playground. Climbing is a lifelong sport that welcomes people of all abilities, but that doesn't mean it's easy to do or easy to get started. You want to ...

Climbing is exploding in popularity across the U.S. and climbing walls are becoming a staple in cities, at campus recreation centers, at summer camps, and more. Part of the appeal is the unique workout that climbing offers. To finish a route, climbers must combine balance, strength, and ...

Even just using the term “team building activity" can elicit groans and giggles from participants everywhere. The reputation of these activities as boring, useless, and corny dates back to early human history; drawings of trust falls have been found in ancient cave dwellings! Ok, maybe not that ...

Here at Head Rush Technologies, we work closely with summer camps all over the world. Over the years, we have seen many innovative, fun, and exciting ideas implemented by these camps to provide adventure goers with hours of joy and excitement. With summer 2016 quickly approaching, we have compiled ...

“Togetherness.” There’s a good chance that is not the first word that pops into your head when you think about auto belays. One argument that we hear from gym owners against using auto belays is that they are counter-productive to building a tight-knit climbing community. But that’s not ...

Avoid the AnxietyLearning to belay is an essential building block in the sport of climbing, as a belayer is the individual who manages and controls a climber’s safety rope. For beginner climbers who have not yet learned how to belay, it is smart to work with a skilled belay partner unless there ...