Idea

Improvement on the climbing wall or introduce a bouldering room

by Deleted User 13 November 2017, 15:30

Category: Sports

Actions for SU
Lobby the University for the installation of a Bouldering Wall. Students’ Union to support and encourage the Outdoor Society to run fundraising initiatives.

Progress
Initial discussions with the Outdoor Soc in Carmarthen have taken place - extra sessions for the climbing wall have been negotiated with Sports Centre and members have begun resetting routes. Outdoor society invited to a development meeting with RS and Josh Tobin. 

Date Passed
25/01/18

Sabb
Rob Simkins

Staff
Joe Edwards

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With the university having a climbing wall situated in the sports hall, is extremely useful for the Outdoor Adventure Education course, I believe there could be more use from it for the students of the OAE course, sports or other courses to use this wall for their own benefit. It is a very basic wall and with improvement it could see more attraction from students and possibly the local public. 

The closest indoor wall being either Tenby - Overhang or Swansea - Dynamic Rock, this could become a slight 'climbing fix' for those who do not have transport aswell as reducing transport emissions by reducing those travelling far for a small climb. With Dynamic and Overhang being a fully facilitated climbing walls, of course there is more variety and there is not expectation to create a fully facilitated wall at UWTSD, only to improve it. 

Improvement ideas;

  • More vareity of grades and features
  • regular route changes
  • Extension of height or width
  • Ability to use the wall for SPA/ML personal training

Another alternative to the wall improvement is a bouldering room. A bouldering room, couldn't be located in the sports hall, but possibly in Cynefin, which is located off campus. 

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