25 November 2019

Speed solutions - running lanes, campus rungs on a steeper wall

We all know the anti-climax problem when the gold and silver in a Speed final being decided by a false start or an early slip. Imagine instead having four climbers fighting for the medals in four narrow lanes running up on five-meter wide wall with identical campus board rungs. This would mean more excitement, more finalists, much easier to set up in gyms and more understandable for both climbers and non-climbers. The rungs could also come in two different sizes, so Speed could be interesting also in the local gyms as well as for the (female) youth in the comps. On the bigger rungs, a "no feet" discipline could be added in the World cups etc, although this would mean we have to make the wall a bit steeper. A third and fourth discipline could be standing or running high jump on the bigger rungs. In any case, any final will be finished with a measurable spectacular dyno. The two different rungs should be as identical to what most gyms have on their campus board. The rungs can also be shown whenever clubs and federations run competitions or shows so everyone can feel the size of it. Furthermore, it would be interesting for hang board producer to include the standard Speed climbing rungs. Imagine how much more interesting it would be to exactly know the sizes of the rungs also for the millions of non-climbers watching the Olympic. Today a Speed climbing wall is normally 7 meters wide. By using the standard 1.22 meters width in running, four lanes take just five meters. In gyms, you can either have two lanes with the smaller rungs and two lanes with the bigger one's side by side. Alternatively, the differently sized rungs can be put on the same lanes, also creating a third easier Speed lane combining the rungs.
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