Comments on: Hangar 18 – Go Big

By: The Real Fish

The Real Fish — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:43:08 +0000

Because the Inland Empire kicks ass. My old hangout– and probably something to do with LA industrial space rental rates being out of control. Climbers are too damn price sensitive to justify opening a gym in an area with high operating costs– you can’t charge enough to sustain I am guessing. You could– but you’d have to market to birthday parties and yuppies and you would likely lose a lot of the real climbing appeal that we all want/need. Then again… there are separate enclosed bouldering areas to help offset this.

By: jghedge

jghedge — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:48:36 +0000

when in God’s name will we get a decent gym that is not 1 hour from LA…try bopping out to either of the Hangar18 gyms, or Threshold, or Boulderdash, from LA after work, all are an hour away with no traffic. Midweek during after-work rush hour traffic? ain’t happening.

By: Steven Jeffery

Steven Jeffery — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:31:30 +0000

place looks sick!

By: danielson

danielson — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:58:48 +0000

More misspelling … oops. I don’t speak Japanese, but the English I think I can explain. Supranational barrier – which was originally, “separational” barrier – should actually probably just be “separation” barrier… routesetter.com’s spell-check probably picked up separational and substituted supranational.

Now… a supranational climbing wall – that would be something altogether new and exciting… Louie – let’s see it!

Great job with the wall and I hope all is going well at H18.

By: Louie Anderson

Louie Anderson — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:16:52 +0000

“supranational barrier”?

I’m not even sure what that means and I’m pretty sure it’s not in my daily vocabulary. Maybe it was on someone’s daily word list when the edit was being done?

Anyhow, glad to see the gym getting some press. I’m very happy with how it turned out and it’s a great place to climb.

Thanks for putting this together Scott and Mike.

- Louie

By: danielson

danielson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:33:42 +0000

Apologies for the misspelling… I was just intending to stress the way those guys at the gym were saying it. I have absolutely no knowledge when it comes to Japanese. The Japanese fluent Matt King, a manager at Hangar 18, would have straightened that out for me if I’d done a spell check with him.

Really, and this is speculation – but I think their expression of it was a funny way of sort of celebrating the way Japanese people seem always so psyched about climbing. Just speaking for myself and the few encounters with Japanese climbers in the US, I’ve always found their energy and more specifically – the way they seem to climb – really exciting.

Completely off topic – but actually interesting, just the different climbing styles out there. At least in competition, myself and others I’ve talked to have always admired elements in the Japanese competitors performance. They seem to always be focused on “execution” – to try very hard, every time, and not to waste time or energy thinking or hesitating with sequences, but rather being decisive and quick in their movements. I wonder if others have noticed this, or there are other climbing style differences like this that stand out…

By: Raiyou

Raiyou — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:11:05 +0000

Your japanese is flawed. It should be written “To-pa Ro-pa”.