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vanclimber
Dec 31, 2005, 11:05 PM
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Maybe there is a market for glow in the dark holds?
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jlobes
Jan 27, 2006, 7:27 PM
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In reply to: I've always liked "cosmic climbing" ya know like the bowling alley? lots of black light, neon holds, maybe some lazers..
Yeah, I agree, sounds like a lot of fun!
In reply to: Maybe there is a market for glow in the dark holds?
I dont know. It seems too cost inefficient, to have to buy a whole new set of holds. If I owned a gym i would probably just take some of the older, mankier looking holds and get some glow in the dark spray paint, and have at them.
EDIT: Maybe instead of taping out the routes on a wall, put a dif color glow spraypaint on the holds
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bobruef
Jan 27, 2006, 7:43 PM
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In reply to: I've been to too many gyms with horrible lighting. It's dark, it looks half ass. It really helps the whole atmosphere to have proper lighting. I think most people don't put much thought into it. Natural lighting is a key element. So if you design a wall, ask yourself how will it be lighted? Natural, fake? etc. I've just had bad vibe from every poorly lit gym I've seen.
Yeah, I hear you man.
The other day I was going to climb outside, but when I looked at the weather I was like...sh!t...partly cloudy...are you kidding me?
So we just bagged it and headed indoors.
I mean its bad enough outside as it is, for one thing, there's not neon tape to mark where you're supposed to climb.
Then we got to the gym, and I had to suffer through overhead artificial lighting... It was totally bogus.
I'm pretty sure that the people who build gyms do it because they hate climbers and just want to torture them.
...then I went out to McDonnalds and ordered a burger and they told me that the beef wasn't organic... well, you know what I did?
I threw it on the floor, and said, "If you're going to make hamburgers, you need to do it right"
My day was totally ruined.
uuggghhhhh!
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onsight_endorphines
Jan 27, 2006, 9:37 PM
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Wow. Some of you have taken what the OP said out of context. Here it is again:
Quote from mped (OP):
In reply to: I've been to too many gyms with horrible lighting. It's dark, it looks half ass. It really helps the whole atmosphere to have proper lighting. I think most people don't put much thought into it. Natural lighting is a key element. So if you design a wall, ask yourself how will it be lighted? Natural, fake? etc. I've just had bad vibe from every poorly lit gym I've seen.
I get a bad "vibe" (ughh...I hate that word, but oh well) from poorly lit places sometimes. It's something I choose to ignore, but feel it shouldn't be that way.
Any establishment needs to be properly lit. For some places (aquariums come to mind...) you don't want a lot of light. In rock gyms, I feel that it's quite important. Picture me saying the following in sweet mommy-to-baby-girl voice:
[violet]Humans sometimes make big moves to small holds in rock gyms...[/violet]
Ya need to be able to see the holds as best you can.
Lighting a Bouldering Cave - How I'd do it.
Flourescent. A huge variety of color temperatures is available, it doesn't have to have the harsh clean white lab look. Flourescents are extremely efficient (produce little heat) and have very long lifetimes compared to other technologies. For bouldering caves, use the small coiled ones as they put out a lot of light in a small package. Install several of these behind thick lexan (polycarbonate) panels in the floor. Great way to do it ; )
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euhero987
Oct 29, 2011, 1:43 PM
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I was just searching on google on this one and found what I was looking for. Thank you so much. I also want to light my gym but will use LED lights.. Thanks guys
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