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#Blocs climbing plus

an “actual gym” area, already equipped with a number of exercising machines and weight sets.

a shorter wall equipped mostly with top ropes and accessible from a mezzanine above one of the boulder walls.

a speed climbing wall built to the specifications of IFSC competitions.

a featured wall with cracks which, albeit not very large (we counted five top anchors), is always a great way to try and narrow the gap between indoors and outdoors climbing, especially for beginners.

a very ample competition lead wall with appropriate (but not insane) steepness.

a nice standalone bouldering “mushroom”, making the best of the space at the feet of the rope climbing walls.

various large bouldering walls covering a number of angles from slab to dead horizontal.

With regard to the climbing facilities themselves, Blocs & Walls leaves little to be desired and here is what we could test out on the day: So congratulations to the Blocs & Walls staff and to Hansen Agenda, which ran the event.īelow is a rough & ready video of Adam’s 8b/+ climb. But everything went very smoothly, making for a truly enjoyable day.

#Blocs climbing plus

The coveted event took place on September 7 and featured friendly competitions for lead and boulder, a lead duel in the style of Arco’s Rock Master (but carried out on the speed wall) and Adam Ondra tackling the hardest route of the gym, plus various talks and presentations.Ī great shot of Adam’s onsight attempt to Blocs & Walls’ hardest route © Ulrik HasemannĪ day like this had a lot of expectations to live up to given the quality of climbing walls of fellow Nordic capitals Oslo and Stockholm (which we have, literally, witnessed first-hand) and the Scandinavian penchant for perfectly run events.

In fact, our mission was also to attend the opening of Blocs & Walls, Copenhagen’s new climbing centre. Photo: The opening day crowd from the top of the lead wall © Ulrik HasemannĬatching up with Adam Ondra about his months as a fulltime climber was not the only reason why the Rest Jug team visited the Danish capital earlier this September. In fact, we do believe that the creation of a wall is an exciting sign of a growing community looking for means to do more of what they love most.Īnd, strong of a well organised and eventful day, Blocs & Walls did not fail to impress us! As undiscriminating lovers of all forms of sport climbing, we are always happy to hear about new climbing walls. We attended the opening of Blocs & Walls, the brand new climbing centre of Copenhagen.