Saturday, May 6, 2017

5/6/2017 Making Climbing Holds With Trevor and Charles

Trevor and I have been covering holds in silicone recently. Our original plan to pour silicone into a box was changed because we realized that putting small amounts of silicone into soap and water would be much more efficient and would dry much faster. Because a whole box was not filled, we could use small globs to save large amounts silicone. 






Once we were confident with our new mold making process, Trevor and I moved onto making and testing holds. We recently received our poly urethane composites in the mail, so we were ready to see how well our materials would work. 











We were very excited to see that it worked out.






Then we tested the strength of each test hold by dropping it from tall heights and hanging from it like a climbing hold should be used. As you can see, it worked out quite well.




Finally, after a long day of work..... I made Trevor clean up the workshop.



Friday, April 28, 2017

4/28/17 Making Homemade Climbing Holds with Trevor and Charles



The first steps to making your own climbing holds are shaping the holds out of craft foam, which we will then pour silicone over to produce a negative. This negative mold allows us to poor in a urethane mixture that will then set in the same shape as the carved out foam. We researched this process online and called about 10 different climbing hold companies for their personal tips and tricks. 

Board consisting of tasks, designs, and important phone numbers

After sketching up some designs, we went to work using knives to carve the basic shape and used our fingers (the foam is very delicate) to make small details.

  

The results of our floral foam carvings:


A few of the holds are test holds, which we will be attempting to break once they have been cast to test the strength of our urethane mixture.

Stay tuned for next week's update!

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Extra Pictures from the Championship

 While the rest of the team was working hard on the wall, I was taking pictures. Here are some of the best pictures I took.










Monday, February 13, 2017

WAICL 2017 Climbing Championships

On Sunday WFS A and WFS B traveled to Crystal City for the last competition of the 2017 season.  Most of the boys climbed PR's on the day which is a true testament to how hard they have worked and the dedication they showed to the team.  WAICL Photo Album 

We lived this season by two mottoes:
  1. 1) try harder 
  2. 2) make the guy next to you better.  


We did both in spades.


Boys Team Results
RankSchoolTotal
1GDS244
2WFS A212.5
3Heights212
4EHS204
5STA203
6WFS B183
7FHS157
8SSFS122

WFS A


212Varsity BoysTop RopeBouldering
43
KJ Pankratz
5.11b
5.9
V5
V7
1361014
48
Trevor Barker
5.11b
5.11b
V6
V5
13131210
38
Chares Moorman
5.10b
5.10d
V5
V4
911108
45
Reece Tilgner
5.11b
5.11c
V4
V5
1314810
38
Will Slicer
5.10b
5.10b
V5
V5
991010
38
Thomas Griffin
5.10d
5.10b
V5
V4
119108

WFS B

183Varsity BoysTop RopeBouldering
38
Alex Krongard
5.10d
5.10d
V4
V4
111188
38
Garrett Venable
5.10d
5.10b
V4
V5
119810
33
Gus Dupree
5.10c
5.10b
V3
V4
10968
39
Tilden Winston
5.10d
5.11a
V4
V4
111288
34
Coleman Bishop
5.10b
5.10b
V4
V4
9988
34
Dawson Duckworth
5.10b
5.10b
V4
V4
9988