Building Your Own Climbing Wall (book)

by Equinox

Product Description

A primer that provides strategy and design guidelines for building an imaginative climbing wall at home. FPC205 , BUILDING YOUR OWN CLIMBING WALL (BOOK) , CLIMBING WALL CONSTRUCTION

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• ASIN: B003LDAR60
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Weak, February 8, 2002

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"jonjen4" (Murray, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Climb: Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall (How To Climb Series) (Paperback)

This book hardly even covers the basics in building a wall. Very few diagrams and even fewer innovative ideas. He doesn't even bother to include many picture of walls in order to get ideas. Even the limited information free on the web surpasses the details in this book.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pathetic, May 21, 2001

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Adam Holmes (Fort Collins, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Climb: Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall (How To Climb Series) (Paperback)

This book is an awful intro to building indoor rock walls. Outdated and too thin. It reccommends creating your own holds which is a good way to make poor holds. The Metolious website offers at least as much info as this book and it's free. Unfortunately, there is no other book to reccommend that covers building indoor walls. Someone still needs to write it.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Well, at least I didn't pay for it, June 21, 2006

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L. M. MACLEAN "If too many books were a crime..." (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Climb: Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall (How To Climb Series) (Paperback)

This was a free, 4-for-3 book that looked interesting and I thought would be a good way for me to put together a climbing wall for my foster children that wasn't a plastic one you get at the toy stores. Children get bored on those little tiny walls with plastic holds; I am experienced in woodworking and masonry and wanted to put something up in my basement or garage (which the book specifically promises to be geared to). I don't have a 25-foot ceiling like he does and there seems to be no way to scale down the walls (no pun intended). The entire first page basically says, "Don't build your own wall without an architect or a structural engineer." Thanks.

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