How Mock Rock Climbing Holds Were Born Out of Frustration
It ended up being the best July of weather I can remember and I was living in the wettest part of England working a summer job in a hostel perched on a mountain, with more free time than I knew what to do with I set about becoming an expert climber..
Each day I would spend a couple of hours in the indoor climbing centre, my job at the hostel meant I mainly did breakfasts and dinner and between I had upto 6 hous to do whatever I wanted.. So began my introduction to climbing. My first attempt was to do some low level bouldering, with no safety crash pads and little skill I soon realised it certainly wasn’t as easy as it looked. After a frustrating couple of hours of struggling to complete the most basic of moves.. I resigned myself to the fact that I was not ready for real rock. Luckily in Keswick there was an indoor wall, with only half an hour journey from the hostel I had plenty of time to get there and back.. So I did, just about every day without fail for 3 months.. It bacame my saviour fom the general boredom of the job, I managed to push myself each day and make some good progress. Shortly before the summer was over I took a trip down to the boulder which had defeated me.. Hands dipped in chalk primed and calloused I grabbed at the rock face and with ease began to make my way around the huge boulder, I traced the chalk marks of previous climber’s hands and followed the routes that they had established, then I deviated stretched out to a ledge and pulled myself up to the top of the boulder.
You never get time in normal every day life to dedicate yourself to one task with no real distractions and it amazed me just how emersed and focused I became. But if I had only had the chance to train on real rock features inside I think I would have progressed even faster. So ayear later I returned to the boulder took some casts and copied the real rock features.. This was the birth of Mock Rock climbing holds. A summer job that evolved into a part-time business and now a career. I wish I had discovered climbing when I was younger, so it is my mission to get a climbing wall in every school in the UK. Mock Rock climbing holds try to capture that spirit of fun and adventure that led me to discover the sport I was born for, If by selling cheap and innovative climbing holds a few more people discover this life changing hobby, then that makes my job worthwhile.
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