I am thinking of setting up a bouldering circuit for our gym. Many of the members are relatively new and have no direction in their climbing and training. I am thinking of tagging a circuit of ten to fifteen problems from V0 warm-up to around V2 or even V3. I plan to vary the terrain the style of problems so the climbers do slab, steep, face and dynamic movements.
Has anyone else set a circuit like this for their gym, and if so any experiences to share?
Thanks
Cranky
circuits are great.
They work for giving direction to people.
they also work to force people to climb on each terrain, and on each style.
I think that you should only build circuits and no individual problems.
I set 3 circuits in our gym recently as a pilot project to see how it goes over.
We're mainly a rope climbing gym, so there isnt a very prominent bouldering contingency.
The novice circuit is 6 problems from like V0-V2.
Intermediate is 8 problems from V2-V4/5
Advanced is 10 problems from V4-V6/7
30 minutes is allocated for each of these circuits.
I intend to post an elite circuit which will be to climb all 3 circuits in 1 hour.
I like the idea of only having bouldering circuits up, instead of random problems.
I keep about 70-80 problems up at all times, so only having circuits may be tricky.
Circuits = awesome.
Thanks for the encouragement. I had not considered a time limit for the circuit but I was thinking of having the climbers try each problem a maximum of three tries and then moving on, Maybe I will instruct the climbers to take no more than a two minute rest between problems.
We have about 70 problems up like you. I am going to tag and number 6-8 of them as a recreational circuit with a max difficulty of V2 at problem number 4 or 5. I will let you know how it goes.
Thanks always
Cranky
For those novices who still need the most basic techniques before embarking on repetition. (including some intermediate climbers too)
Not necessarily a "circut" but something always HUGEly popular with new climbers 5.6 to 5.10. More of a technique learning/training thing...
I like to set about 8 to 12 super positive 1 handed jugs in a big circle on the wall...
each hold about 3 to 4 feet apart with a few extra feet in the right places.
Make it easily climbable without bending your elbows even a little bit.
It's perfect to show beginners what climbing with straight arms looks like.
And it's much easier for them to learn how to do it.
It also cause them to turn their body and use their feet better. ;-)
Try it... you'll like it!
Aidas, curious what gym are you working at now?
there is no way the rock court has eighty problems and there is no way the rock court is mainly roped gym!!
Hi Kaleb, I'm setting at the Rock Oasis in Toronto.
Check it out, rockoasis.com
ya i know those guys good, tell Cort i said hi, i put some problems up for them last summer when i was breesing through town.
I did my CGI level one there, ask them about me pretending to be drunk for my course, and telling the guy i was physically capable of doing his mom...
to everybody else on the forum... dont judge me, its a long story hahaha
putting some push-up and other activities ie medicine balls,rings and sit-ups in to circuits works really well.
You must log in to post.