Athletic tourists in Boracay can now enjoy the breathtaking sight of wall or rock climbing at D’Mall and Patio Pacific. Most of the rock and wall climbers do it everyday as a way or form of exercise , some to release pressure and stress and for fun and adventure. In D’mall you can climb the wall at 50 pesos per climb while at Patio de Pacific 300 pesos only.
As you witness somebody doing wall climbing , you think it’s very easy and doesn’t require balance , focus or thinking. Bernard Dancona from France and Yamil De Ora Ortiz of Mexico enjoyed wall climbing as a hobby. It’s their way of keeping their muscles strong. For both of them , who were traveling all across the globe to explore, it’s only in Boracay that they decided to stay longer.
Bernard traveled for the first time from Southeast , France to Boracay and felt in love with the place. He decided to teach aspirants Rock or wall climbing, Kite Boarding and Wake boarding . For three months now alone in Boracay he shared that , “ one thing that makes Boracay as the best from among the places he have been into is the turbulent seas that’s calm but windy. It’s best for Kite Boarding. As well as the people. They’re very warm & friendly and the language factor. Everybody even kids knows how to speak English, very easy to communicate.For him, Everything is in Boracay. If you love a quiet place you can go to Bolabog or if you like partying all night just go to the long beach.
Yamil on the other hand traveled from Mexico to Boracay alone few months ago. He love the peace, harmony and the corrals. He is now four months in the island enjoying scuba diving and wall climbing. His lifestyle is simple, he loves diving and exploring the ocean. His most memorable diving spot is the Carribean where the corrals are perfect. But, he wanted to share his expertise to aspirants here so he decided to be a diving instructor in Boracay. Life is fulfilling and easy in Boracay that made him realized there’s so much to share to diving enthusiast under the sea here. We lack skilled instructors to handle risky diving.
In all the major sports they’ve been into, for them “Strength and technique in wall climbing is necessary. Like life, one must look up… never look down but look straight to a certain direction when you climb. And you’ll notice , you’ve made it to the top. When you try looking down you will be scared, you felt like falling down. You’ll lost focus, direction and purpose. Things will then be confusing. That’s the reason, you will never reach the top. Same as life .. forget the past.. focus on your strength .. then work on it.
According to history, the concept of the artificial climbing wall began in the UK. The first wall was created in 1964 at Leeds University by Don Robinson, a lecturer in Physical Education and founder of DR Climbing Walls, by inserting pieces of rock into a corridor wall. The first commercial wall was built in Sheffield, traditionally England’s centre for climbing due to its proximity to the Peak District.
An outdoor climbing wall at the University of Bath, England
Definitely, that there are Types of Walls. “The simplest type of wall is of plywood construction, known colloquially in the climbing community as a ‘woody’, with a combination of either bolt-on holds or screw on holds. Bolt-on holds are fixed to a wall with iron bolts which are inserted through the hold, which will have specific bolt points, and then fixed into pre-allocated screw-threaded holes in the wall. Screw-on holds are, by contrast, usually much smaller, owing to the nature of their fixing. These holds are connected to the wall by screws which may be fastened anywhere on the wall’s surface.”
“Other types of walls include slabs of granite, concrete sprayed on to a wire mesh, pre-made fiberglass panels, manufactured steel and aluminum panels, and textured fiberglass walls.”
An indoor climbing wall in the UK showing moulded features and coloured route markers.
An indoor climbing center in Singapore
Grips come in different colours, those of the same colour often being used to denote a route, allowing routes of different difficulty levels to be overlaid on one another. Coloured tape placed under climbing holds is another way that is often used to mark different climbing routes. In attempting a given route, a climber is only allowed to use grips of the designated colour as handholds but is usually allowed to use both handholds and footholds of the designated colour and surface structures and textures of the “rockface” as footholds.
The grade (difficulty) of the route is usually a consensus decision between the builder of the route and the first few people who climb the route.Many indoor climbing walls have people who are assigned to set these different climbing routes. These people are called route setters.
Indoor Climbing is an increasingly popular form of rock climbing.The first indoor walls tended to be made primarily of brick leaving little scope for interesting routes as the steepness of the wall and variety of the hand holds were somewhat limited.
The most common construction method involves screwing resin hand holds on to wooden boards. The boards can be of varying height & steepness (from completely horizontal ‘roofs’ to not even vertical ’slabs’) and have a large variety of holds (such as very small ‘crimps,’ slanted-surfaced ’slopers,’ and ‘jugs,’ which are often large and easy to hold) attached. This variety, coupled with the ability for the climbs to be changed by attaching the holds onto the wall differently has resulted in indoor climbing becoming a very successful sport.
The proliferation of indoor climbing gyms has increased the accessibility, and thus the popularity, of the sport of climbing. Since environmental conditions (ranging from the structural integrity of the climbing surfaces, to equipment wear, to proper use of equipment) can be more controlled in such a setting, indoor climbing is perhaps a safer and more friendly introduction to the sport. In fact birthday parties and youth teams are common at many rock gyms.
This sense of security has a downside of course - a new gym climber may head to the cliffs and find they do not have all of the necessary skills for climbing in a setting without preplaced anchors, and explicit routefinding.
Indoor rock climbing is also continually described as an alternate and secondary option to outdoor climbing. Although this may be true for a range of climbers, many climbers see outdoor climbing as an excursion from the gym, and much less usual than indoor climbing. For this reason, indoor climbing should not be classified as a secondary sport,no grill cover needed, it is a competitive sport and therefore quite different from outdoor climbing. Source : Wikepedia- the free Encyclopaedia.
