Category: Indoor walls

Sampling the Climb Asia climbing walls in Singapore

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Climb Asia Singapore outdoor lead wall

I managed to squeeze in a bouldering session at Climb Asia in Singapore today:

Climb Asia Climbing Centre Pte Ltd

60 Tessensohn Road

c/o: Civil Service Club
Singapore 217664
(65) 6292 7701
http://www.climb-asia.com
> 20m wide indoor climbing wall – 9m high; 9 lanes outdoor high wall – 15 meters; indoor bouldering cave

Easy to find, around 200 metres from the Farrer Park MTR Station on the North East Line

 

 

level 2 of the bouldering area

There is a well stocked climbing shop, cafe, and most important, 2 levels of bouldering in the modern idiom. with level 1 being particularly fierce and steep.

Well worth the visit if you’re in the city.

Bouldering in Singapore

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Level 2 at the Climbing Laboratory, Singapore

I took a couple of hours out this afternoon from the conference I’m attending in Singapore to go for a training session at one of the indoor climbing and bouldering walls in singapore

Climbers Laboratory
66 Kampung Bugis, #08-01 Rivergreen Building
Singapore
+65- 6515 9363
http://www.exponentasia.com.sg

is situated just 5 minutes from the Lavender metro station on the East-West line, and occupies the top two levels of an office block. Level 8 is where the entrance is from the lift, and has relatively easy problems, with Level 7 containing roof and cave problems all extremely steep. The venue is only two months old, so the holds are all relatively new and extremely hard on your fingers. Overall, well worth the visit if you have any time in Singapore, and although it lacks the height of the Climbing Works in Sheffield, the roofs and traverses are extremely good value.

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My home bouldering wall

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Part of my home bouldering wall

Back when I arrived in Sheffield in 1986, there were no proper indoor climbing training facilities, so everyone built their own. These were generally in cellars, and a whole new generation of Sheffield cellar-dwelling ‘troglodytes’ was born. Even though Sheffield led the way, and now possesses some of the best indoor facilities anywhere (ClimbingWorks, The Foundry, The Edge, The Matrix), it’s still a tradition to have your own at home.

Here’s mine, which is in my garage, and is the first thing I did when we bought the house. It’s set up with relatively large holds at the moment for early season stamina training. It converts with an alternative set of holds into a ‘School Room’ type facility.

For more information on building your own wall, and plans for the ‘School Room’ layout, see Ben Moon’s excellent site:

http://www.moonclimbing.com/