Construction Time Again

So, I've built another climbing wall or board or whatever with some help from Jim. Earlier this summer I built a small trainingboard at home which was inspired by the Moon school room board but not fullsize. This got me going and I wanted the real deal so after a short "meeting" I got permission to build one for the club aswell which was built to the correct dimensions and angles, within a few percent at least.

For those not familiar with the Moon board, it's a board which overhangs by 40 degrees and is a little over 3 sheets of plywood long, (about 4 meters). The holes are spaced by 20 cm in an exact pattern. When used with the right set of holds users at different locations can share problem with each other. Read all about it at http://www.moonclimbing.com/the-moon-board-c-334_336.html Another idea with the board is that you put up a lot of holds and and "freestyle" new problems from whats on the board instead of setting problems. The concept has been around a while but there are not so many problems to download at the moment. There are now 3 sets of Moon holds but only one is "supported". I read in a thread at ukbouldering.com that Ben promised that they would launch a feature within their webpage where people could share their problems and that they would make problems for the new sets aswell. It hasn't happened yet but I hope it will because the Moon board is an excellent way for small clubs like ours with very few route setters to get in some new ideas in our problems.

A Moon board should have a name and this one got three at the moment and I can't really decide what to go for. The Blue Moon beacause, well it's a Moon board and it's blue. The Matrix because I had to draw lines all over the board to separate the new holes from the 100 something old ones. Or perhaps The Legacy Wall because it's built from the very plywood sheets that the clubs first climbing wall was built from in 1994. This first wall was a portable one, 6 meter high, that we sold ad space on and brought to events, from that we got the money to get it all started. I think the plywood sheets has finally came home now, this was their destiny.

Another picture from our climbing center, the first boulder wall we built but it has been rebuilt or patched 4 or 5 times since then and most of the cheap plywood sheets that was once on it are replaced by decent ones.