Your Guide to High Performance Climbing Walls
Posted on 405 January 2008 by JaMi in Extreme Sports
High Performance Climbing Walls are perfect options for Universities, Indoor climbing facilities, Health clubs, YMCA’s, Recreation centers, or any facility that needs a custom rock climbing wall with a climbing features, durability, and high quality look.
High Performance walls are usually built on a steel framed superstructure. This gives the builder the liberty of implementing indefinite ideas like cracks, free standing pinnacles, archways, huecos, aretes, and much more. After erecting the steel frame, builders can sculpt the high performance surfaces to create a flawless clear and unique look along with micro-relief. High performance climbing walls come in more than 25 base colors and have higher level of aesthetic choice for every kind of climbing facility.
Various indoor rock-climbing facilities are on the look out for return participants and a loyal client base that are aware of the fact that durability and route setting are paramount, when it comes to building a high performance wall.
Texture
The textures have been developed to ensure durability as well as flexibility to absorb high impacts caused by falling climbers. High Performance texture systems are known to support two or more T-nuts per square foot. This helps in allowing a proactive route-setting program, to unfailingly challenge participants with novel and motivating climbing. This provides climbers with varied route- setting options and more holds on the walls.
High-performance climbing walls should be able to provide a texture with a considerable amount of micro-relief (pockets for footwork, surface variations, and edges), which also add up to the complete feel and look of the wall.
Design
If you are interested in getting a high performance-climbing wall installed in your home or health club, you can hire wall-climbing installers/builders. Considering the infinite possibilities of design, when it comes to building the High performance climbing walls, constructors would be enthusiastic to create varied facilities, right from a showpiece walls in smaller spaces to world-class facilities in large spaces. You can also opt for a bouldering terrain along with the high performance system. These areas could either be completely standing or wall mounting.
Building Specifications
Following are some of the specifications mentioned by the wall installing company before embarking on the wall-building projects:
. Drawings, design, modeling and construction would be carried out by the Company
. Free maintenance, durable welded steel framing system according to the Climbing Wall Industry Group (CWIG) standards
. T-nuts would be installed at a ratio of 2:1 square foot
. Highly sculpted cracks, aretes, archways and built in features
. You would get to choose from more than 25 different base colors
. Cast fossils and micro-relief built into surface
. Lead anchors and 3.5″ steel belay bars would be built according to CWIG standards
Pricing for building the High Performance Wall
Every wall-building project is unique. The installers always need to know, what you would like to include in your wall and the subsequent budget. Depending on your budget, the installers can give you a rough estimate about the overall costs for the wall building. Make sure you are in constant contact with the installer before, during and after the building of the wall. This helps you in maintaining the wall and acquiring added information about climbing.
JaMi
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