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Mon 30th Mar New Purple Spotty Circuit
After our new green circuit last week, we've moved up a few grades and started work on a new purple spotty cirucit. The old circuit has been stripped and cleaned (with the magic that is Benky Grip...
Thu 26th Mar New Green Circuit
Percy and Sam finished the new 40 problem Green circuit yesterday so for those operating in the Font 4-5 range then you've got some great new problems to go at. Next week will see a new purple...
Tue 24th Mar Work in progress
We haven't blogged for the best part of a week (mostly due to Brian being on holiday and me being away in bonny Scotland) but we're back, so here's an update on whats been going down. The campus...
Tue 17th Mar Photos From The CWIF
We're in the process of sorting out and uploading the tons of photos that we've got from the CWIF. We've got a full gallery on our website with the competition broken up into the setup, the...
Mon 16th Mar Words of wisdom
Just got back from a weekend in Austria at the IFSC seminar - a useful meeting but not as much fun as the brief liason with snowboarding off-piste through pretty dense trees at Garmisch-Partenkirchen...
Wed 11th Mar Closure this Saturday, 14th March
This Saturday sees the BUSA / BUCS come to town with competitions held all over Sheffield with thousands of students competiting in numerous different sports. As part of it, The Climbing Works will...
Tue 10th Mar CWIF Report
A good climbing competition has to have some essential ingredients. Firstly you need talent in the form of some of the best climbers in the world. Then you need some intriguing, insane structures...
Mon 9th Mar Recovery
What a weekend!!! As you may have read from Percy's last blog, the CWIF was almighty success with around 200 competitors and a finals that was one of the best ever held in the U.K. We've spent the...
Sun 8th Mar The day after.......
Well, its all over for another year. I'm too tired to write a proper blog now - that can wait until tomorrow. However, CWIF 2009 was amazing - one of the best international comps ever held in the UK....
Fri 6th Mar The Day Before....
So with one day to go to the mighty CWIF, the finals and the semi finals have been set and the boys are currently working on the new yellow qualifying circuit. 30 problems from 5 to 7b+ or so. These...
Wed 4th Mar A Blank Canvas
Today has seen both the comp wall and the yellow circuit stripped all in preparation for Saturday and the C.W.I.F. Jacky, Percy & Tonde doing some planning... Sam got to work on the comp wall...
Wed 4th Mar Chris Sharma at Malham
This weekend The Climbing Works saw a flying visit from Chris Sharma who was mid lecture tour, so on Monday I took him up to Malham Cove in North Yorkshire. After nearly two hours of battling with...
Tue 3rd Mar Name-droppers anonymous
After blogging yesterday morning, this fella called Chris Sharma popped into the Works for a pre-Malham coffee. Then we found out that another young boulderer called Tyler Landman was going to join...
Tue 3rd Mar The training is working!!!
Sam's training at The Works is starting to pay off... Check out his scarpa blog for more info.
Mon 2nd Mar CWIF preparations....
Its going to be another busy week down at the Works this week as we get ourselves ready for the CWIF on Saturday. Our regulars will have noticed things like the volumes wall being stripped and...
