Have you ever wanted your own bouldering gym? Ever look into buying all of the holds!? Yeah, that can get pricey. We have completed our 3 part series on making your own inexpensive rock climbing holds. They look and feel like the professional ones at a fraction of the cost. We estimate that each hold uses $5 or less in material cost to make! That's awesome. Plus you get to make your own creations. Whatever design, size, or color, you can think of- it's yours. Check out our hold page to see our creations using this technique.
After searching the internet for how-to's and tips on making our own holds, we were left with bits and pieces of the process. We were determined to figure it out anyways. After trial and error, we learned the process and are now successfully climbing on our own holds. We have decided to share our knowledge in one centralized location. With any luck, you can recreate our process and can soon be climbing on your own holds. Don't let the process scare you, it's really not very difficult.
We hope you enjoy and have great success with creating your own holds. If you do make some, please share with us pictures and stories of your adventure. If you have any tips or tricks from making your own holds, share those too. We're no experts and would love to learn anything that makes the process cheaper, easier, or generally better.
Start with Part 1 where you make a foam hold
Then create your silicone mold in Part 2
Finish by casting a resin hold in Part 3
(or you could always try the parts in reverse... I doubt it would work though...)
-Jonathan, Phil, Cameron
rock climbing holds
ReplyDeleteThe best option for climbers to repair their shoes is resoling of the shoes. You can easily find the people in your local gym, who are using resoled pair of shoes. These are not the person who is using these shoes only in regular wear, but they also take for the climbing purpose. With two to three time resoled shoes, they reach their destination without any trouble. Some shoes are difficult to repair because they are overused. The shoes with fix holes in the upper layer of leather are not easily fixable. The worn out shoes that are easily fixable are the replacement of rubber sole.