I has been climbing – 52 Sports; Sport 5 – Bouldering
Sport number 6 in my 52 new sport challenge took me to Oxford Brookes University’s climbing wall. It’s part of the sports centre at their Headington campus and in part, it’s awesome, if exhausting.
If I’m being exact about it, we (Dave (in the picture), Abi and myself) went bouldering, which is a bit like rock climbing but without ropes or harnesses. It sounds insane but there are huge crash mats, so you’re pretty safe and as long as you don’t go higher than you are comfortable with then everyone’s happy.
It was a lot of fun, but we were well done after an hour. Bouldering works your arms really hard and your fingers even harder. There’s a rating system which you’re meant to start off on, but in reality we didn’t pay much attention to them and just used whatever was around. There’s 2 bouldering rooms, one which is much bigger and harder than the one shown in the picture, but it’s well worth a try and I really enjoyed it.
Next sport, not sure. Quite keen to give scuba diving a go…
