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Who has the best home gym in the world?
  2009-03-24 00:00:00    
We are looking for nice and inspiring home gyms. The best 3 will get a Home Gym Kit, click on the picture, from ERGO HOLDS, the leading holds producer in Scandinavia. Please post your pictures and info as a comment. The 3 winners will be chosen in April.
OffLine bat svilko magnata
  2009-03-24 19:37:23    
haha :D give them to Alain Robert already :P
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ws8c_alain-robert-the-french-spiderman-t_sport?from=rss
OffLine NoahZ
  2009-03-24 20:12:07    



OffLine Plast Ken
  2009-03-24 20:13:50    

Strömbäck outside Umeå - Sweden



In Swedish:

När vi byggde vårt nya hus med tillhörande garage i maj 2008 beslutade vi oss snabbt för att anpassa ett extrarum i garaget för att kunna bygga en bouldervägg. Den totala kostnaden (exkl grepp) med att förlänga garaget, höja taket (till 3,60 m i nock), köpa in madrasser och bygga boulderväggarna landade runt 20-25000 kr. Grepp hade vi tillgång till sedan tidigare men har kompletterat med bland annat lite större formationer från Ergoholds och Moonclimbing. Totalt sitter det uppe lite drygt 700 grepp på de tre väggarna.

Naturligtvis är det ett varmgarage för annars går det inte träna vintertid och på sommaren klättrar man väl ute?

Jag tror "gymet" står sig rätt ok i Sverige men vet att man aldrig kan tävla med amerikaner...


Väl investerade pengar för en sliten småbarnsförälder...



MY GARAGE:

(famous Jonas Wiklund in the pictures...;-)



Main bouldering wall, 40 degrees, 500+ holds!





Hangboard:





Simple campus board:





OnLine Marcus Johansson
  2009-03-24 21:24:53    

This is The Barn!

Almost all holds are hand made, both in plastic and in wood.

The owner /constructor, Hans Rapp has done a fantastic job with this wall. 



http://www.8a.nu/gallery/Main.Aspx?UserId=13251#44862



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Here you can find more information from the yearly King of the barn competition. Use the "Barn" links from the menu.
http://www.akk.nu/articles.aspx


 

OffLine David Ander
  2009-03-25 00:00:18    

My new bouldering cave!


There is 1300 nuts for holds, crack, radio and also old well with very cold water... It is 7m long, 4m wide and 2,5m high. Stable temperature 12 centigrades of Celsius for perfect friction and cold beer. I finished it one month ago. I spent at least 2000euro without holds and much more time....


 


OffLine Kai Segrud
  2009-03-25 03:35:49    
Why are you giving holds to people with the nicest gyms? Shouldn't the holds go to someone who needs them?
OffLine Kleme
  2009-03-25 07:54:57    
Hey Kai, I bet that was something they planned for later and then it will be double as much holds ;)
OffLine Shock
  2009-03-25 08:16:44    
It encourages people to build nice gyms so they can get nice holds when the competition is on the next time :)
OffLine Slobodan Mazalica
  2009-03-25 10:24:35    
It is not very nice neither is always inspiring for me but I can certainly use some new holds to expend this portable gym.

Cheers


OnLine CristiT
  2009-03-25 10:39:44    
http://www.kletterzentrum-regensburg.de/
OffLine Andreas Furuseth
  2009-03-25 11:42:42    
those holds doesn't look so good. little variation
OffLine Kleme
  2009-03-25 12:51:25    
@ CristiT, first read carefully before you post ;) This contest is for home gyms not for public ones.
OffLine Tiago ROCHA (mendigo)
  2009-03-25 13:25:08    
good one Kai
OffLine smejkall
  2009-03-25 13:28:29    
Looks great David!! Crack and well are great ideas although I dont think you digged the well for DWS in your cellar :-)
OnLine CristiT
  2009-03-25 15:10:16    
@Kleme: you are right....my mistake....
OffLine Ben Taggart-Ryan
  2009-03-25 17:24:33    
Just wanted to know, how much have you guys spent on those walls? I'm trying to make one myself and wanted to know how much i can expect to spend
OffLine gerard
  2009-03-25 17:26:26    
Yes, i want to know it too. Some walls seem pretty expensive...
OffLine Plast Ken
  2009-03-25 18:12:05    

Around 3000-4000 euro, holds included.


/Magnus

OffLine tomas+mrazek
  2009-03-25 19:56:49    


We built this wall 2 years ago. Its 130m square. The wall is in our house in Brno. We built it in 4 weeks and now I train only there. The best investment in mylife. The trustelly is wall, than the best woman in the world:-)
More photos :
http://www.tomasmrazek.cz/clanek.php?id=269
OffLine AndI
  2009-03-26 00:54:24    
small but deadly effective 45 degree overhang in my basement!






OffLine Principe de la mora
  2009-03-26 01:59:28    

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OffLine Principe de la mora
  2009-03-26 02:15:04    
A couple of months ago i started to build my home gym(a cave) in an old apartment that i had  to fix too. I started playing with only 16 holds, since then  i've been adding more holds some of them are wooden  footsteps made by myself The plans are,  close the cave adding vertical sheets and replace the wooden holds as soon as i can.  .This is  the  first place to  train in my city and  my friends and I  are pretty exited we have hoping this time we gonna get in fucking good shape to send those projs.


@ Kai Segrud I agree with those hold should be given to those who needs them more.

Btw  David Ander  What an awesome place congrats..









OffLine Emilio
  2009-03-26 02:52:49    

oh yeah!!  the best spot the best people, sponsored by El Principe...   who else?!


chingóng!!


NRDA

OffLine Dan Hansen
  2009-03-26 09:31:04    
"We are looking for nice and inspiring home gyms."


NICE!!!
INSPIRING!!!
not
BEST!!!
OffLine alex fry
  2009-03-26 12:48:19    
My garage in Coventry.  Took me about 8 days to build initially then added things like the campus board and the fingerboards later.  The finger board station has grown and now also has a Core finger board and a Beastmaker fingerboard as well. 
OffLine alex fry
  2009-03-26 12:51:44    
Photo didn't work before, here it is
OffLine Pedro Stabile
  2009-03-26 17:00:11    
Woohoa! There are some really cool looking home gyms out there... congrats to all. This is my home climbing wall, along with "mandatory" campus board and fingerboard. Actually, it´s being remodeled. My grandfather calls it the "Lagartixodromo" (something like geckodrome), because of all the "crazy people climbing like lizards", haha. Check it out.

OffLine Jorge Bellido (sonri)
  2009-03-27 09:33:55    


Este es nuestro panel, aquí entrenamos varios amigos. Esta
construido en un local que hemos alquilado.Todo, absolutamente todo, esta
hecho con nuestras manos, incluido el baño y la instalación de agua y luz. La
colchoneta que veis son un montón de colchones cubiertos por una lona, y debajo
de algunos colchones hay ruedas para levantarlos un poco y evitar los problemas
de humedad. La estructura es de vigas de madera y toda ella forma un espacio
cerrado parecido a una caverna, por eso decidimos llamarle al local: La
Caverna.



Espero que os guste, Un saludo.



OffLine Dav3
  2009-03-27 15:22:15    


I constructed this little gym in our attic. That is cool because it is not much
work to do and the frame is pretty steep already.






Except of a
few holds that were given to me, all are carved and made out of wood. The plastic ones are a nice
alternative though ;)





OffLine NoahZ
  2009-03-30 02:21:16    
The Bat Cave

Hey, this is my gym. We just spent the last two days resetting and washing all the holds so it looks nice and new. We still arnt done setting the walls so they look a little bare but you guys get the idea : ) We have 3 main bouldering caves, one of which tops out as well as a vertical wall. For our training we have a compus board, rock rings, gymnast rings, a rope ladder and 3 hang boards. The gym is 14 feet high and the walls around 20 feet long, the topout boulder is a bit longer. We have over 2000 holds and too much time on our hands...

Thanks!
Enjoy!!!


OffLine Dan Jolivet
  2009-03-30 02:42:15    
solving munchies while climbing
OffLine Andreas Widauer
  2009-03-30 11:11:55    
Some people really have space and money to build monstrous gyms. Mine is not so big but stll effective.

My home gym in Salzburg.

I built this gym two years ago in the attic of my grandmothers house. It is 5 meters long and 3 meters high. As you can see I have a campusboard and a hangboard on the back of the campusboard. The campusboard is flexible in angle to keep it out of the way while climbing. I spent around 1000 € on the material (wood, skrews, holds and so forth). Once I had the stuff I built it in one day, alone. So if it’s good planned it’s not so much work. And of course I’m constantly buying and making new holds. I also have a lot of other Training diveces, such as theraband, wights, gymnastic rings, a rope leather, a bar,... in order the keep the training diversified and interesting.





Andi
OffLine Toby Olive
  2009-03-31 08:49:10    
Hi this is my home woody in Australia
 
OffLine Toby Olive
  2009-03-31 08:59:08    
Stats on my outdoor climbing wall

8 meters high vertical wall with crack and flake
9.6 meter 35 degree leadable wall
45 degree 55 degree 30 degree 75 degree bouldering cave
from bottom of bouldering wall to top measures 10.5 meters
at the moment all holds are real rock or timber
very popular safety net appreciated by all who visit
more than 85 meters of climbing wall
Hundreds of drilled rocks
Best feature is climbing in open air


OffLine Sean Doyle
  2009-03-31 13:03:02    
I was wondering whether yours would turn up Toby. Brad had told me you had added an extension.
OffLine Viktor
  2009-03-31 19:55:19    
This is DansGarage, located i Kärda - outside Värnamo - in the south of Sweden. The gym has 35 square meters om wall in different angels and stepness. The gym was built during the x-mas holiday last year and the plan is to extend it with about 10 more square meter and (of course) with a campusboard! As you can see, we are in need of some more holds.......

OffLine Ivan Ihlar
  2009-04-01 15:27:51    
We name our wall Chliev (cabane/cowshed). Its part of a farm building. There is 55m2 of a climbing.
OffLine Viktor
  2009-04-04 10:39:49    
Come on! There has to be some more inspiring home-walls out there, worth showing!
OffLine gabor taborosi
  2009-04-04 23:08:11    
My home climbing "object" is not a gym, but something outside in the
garden. It's a 6m x 6m x 6m cube. The surface is made partly from
wooden panels, but the main part is from special
wood-carbon-resin-concret moduls, with a lots of structure reliefs and
home made inside holds and a 40 square metre tipping wall. It's like a
transition from Osp to Elbsandsteingebirge. The interior is a
semi-finished training room with plywood panels, a Bachar ladder, 2
campus boards, 3 fingerboards, rock rings, a systemwall, parallel bars,
climbing poles and ropes, wall-bars and many other instruments of
torture, but without lights and heating. It's Hungary, you know. We use
all together about 1000 holds from City Wall, Lapisholds, Samsara, MR,
Art-Rock, Entre Prise, Pierre Oeuf, Nicros and others, but it's
terribly insufficient.
OffLine gabor taborosi
  2009-04-04 23:12:14    
the pics have got lost.?!?!
OffLine gabor taborosi
  2009-04-04 23:14:03    
maybe now
OffLine Martin Mayer
  2009-04-06 14:42:12    
we built this gym about 15 years ago in the attic of an old residence located in trier in germany. evreything is selfmade and we try to enlarge the wall every year a bit with the money of a bouldercup we organize once a year at the end of november. the first years it had been just a climbing wall but then we made some boulder parts until we decontruct all climbing parts to have a boulderattic for better training.
we 've a big about 7 m overhanging wave, a little roof and a lot of overhanging walls + fingerboard and campusboard
there are a lot of other pics of our latest bouldercup on fightgravity.net the last picture is of the cup of 05

OffLine Noah
  2009-04-16 21:15:13    

Here are some photos of my home gym. Most of the holds are drilled out rock from the happy
boulders and it breaks on me all the time!! I need some less dangerous/more amzing plastic holds!!! There is a large
community of local climbers using this wall and getting strong.  Thanks! Noah



maximized wall space, but holds are many real rock that break!



fun angles and training area: a 41 degree, a 52 degree and a transition between. 
the 52 degree is a 5 meter length. 3 meter ceilings.



tricky to build transition









MAN SPACE, BABY!



Please consider my woody!  Thanks for your contest, it's fun to see all the amazing home walls.
  Looks like everyone is PSYCHED!



Noah Kaufman



1506 Deseret Dr.



Minden, NV 89423  USA


OffLine manacubus
  2009-04-21 03:16:25    
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