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  2. Bouldering mat - Wikipedia

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    Boulderer with several crashpads. A bouldering mat or crashpad (also sketchpad) is a nylon-enclosed multi-layer foam pad used for protection when bouldering.Bouldering mats help prevent climbers from injuring themselves from the continuous and repeated falls onto hard or uneven surfaces that are associated with projecting a bouldering problem.

  3. Rock-climbing equipment - Wikipedia

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    Bouldering, and its competition bouldering variant, uses the same basic equipment of free soloing but with the optional addition of bouldering mats, which are also called crash mats or crash pads. Top rope climbing, and its competition speed climbing variant, adds a rope, harness, and belay device. The rope is hung prior to the climb from the ...

  4. Auto belay - Wikipedia

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    While traditional auto belays use a top roping format with the device hanging from the top of the route, in 2021, a new type of auto belay–the lead auto belay–was developed that used a lead climbing format (i.e. the climber clipped into the quickdraws like a normal lead climb on a sport climbing route), where the device was fixed to the bottom of the route.

  5. Speed climbing wall - Wikipedia

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    A speed climbing wall is an artificial standardised climbing wall and is the main apparatus used for competitive speed climbing. For such competitions – including those in the Olympics 2020 – the speed climbing wall has been normed by the IFSC in a way that records are comparable. [ 1 ]

  6. Glossary of climbing terms - Wikipedia

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    A small climbing hold screwed onto the wall on a climbing wall. second Lead climber (right) and second (left) A climber who follows the lead climber; often acts as the belayer. self-arrest Using the pick of an ice axe to arrest a fall, or to control a glissade. self-belay. Also self-belaying. The act of using a mechanical device for belaying in ...

  7. Climbing wall - Wikipedia

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    A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with manufactured grips (or "holds") for the hands and feet. Most walls are located indoors, and climbing on such walls is often termed indoor climbing. Some walls are brick or wooden constructions but on modern walls, the material most often used is a thick multiplex board with holes drilled ...

  8. Donald Wallace Gordon - Wikipedia

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    Donald Wallace (Wally) Gordon (4 February 1932 – 11 April 2016) was an American gymnast and inventor who is notable for inventing the first landing mats, incline mats, octagons and all the other foam shapes that currently fill gymnastic schools. [1]

  9. Climbing hold - Wikipedia

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    A competition climber using resin climbing holds on an artificial wall during a bouldering event. A climbing hold is a shaped grip that is usually attached to a climbing wall so that climbers can grab or step on it. On most walls, climbing holds are arranged in paths called routes, by specially trained route setters. Climbing holds come in a ...

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