How to Climb: Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall

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Summary: Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall is...
Review: ...an affordable primer that provides strategy and design guidelines for building an imaginative climbing wall at home. Ramsay Thomas was the founder of one of the first commercial climbing wall companies. Scale drawings give plenty of details. //// How To Rock Climb Series books represent the most competent and complete texts on rock climbing technique ever assembled. Constantly updated, informative and entertaining. Well illustrated

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Summary: Book for climbers
Review: Althought this book was well written and a little useful, it seemed to me about making holds and construction techniques. I was looking for a book that might have info on self-belay and anchoring but the author writes that anchoring is a subject he doesn't want to write about and never mentions self-belay. He doesn't even mention floor padding for your home gym. It's a thin book for the money (26 pages) and the price per page was a little steep.

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Summary: Book for climbers
Review: Althought this book was well written and a little useful, it seemed to me about making holds and construction techniques. I was looking for a book that might have info on self-belay and anchoring but the author writes that anchoring is a subject he doesn't want to write about and never mentions self-belay. He doesn't even mention floor padding for your home gym. It's a thin book for the money (26 pages) and the price per page was a little steep.

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Summary: clearly explained and very useful
Review: I found this book very interesting. It is well organized and will serve people at all levels of experience. I would like to see more work by this author.

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Summary: Weak
Review: This book hardly even covers the basics in building a wall. Very few diagrams and even fewer innovative ideas. He doesn't even bother to include many picture of walls in order to get ideas. Even the limited information free on the web surpasses the details in this book.

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Summary: Weak
Review: This book hardly even covers the basics in building a wall. Very few diagrams and even fewer innovative ideas. He doesn't even bother to include many picture of walls in order to get ideas. Even the limited information free on the web surpasses the details in this book.

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Summary: Pathetic
Review: This book is an awful intro to building indoor rock walls. Outdated and too thin. It reccommends creating your own holds which is a good way to make poor holds. The Metolious website offers at least as much info as this book and it's free. Unfortunately, there is no other book to reccommend that covers building indoor walls. Someone still needs to write it.

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Summary: Pathetic
Review: This book is an awful intro to building indoor rock walls. Outdated and too thin. It reccommends creating your own holds which is a good way to make poor holds. The Metolious website offers at least as much info as this book and it's free. Unfortunately, there is no other book to reccommend that covers building indoor walls. Someone still needs to write it.

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Summary: This is the best book you will ever buy!
Review: This is the ultimate book for experienced mountaineers. If you want to build a climbing wall, this is the basics, it will tell you what you need, and what you dont, to make sure that you dont buy anything that is not needed. Whether your wall is just bouldering on El Cap (Lyn Hill) or just a 20 ft. high wall on your tree house, this is the first thing to buy. Before harness, shoes, biners, quick draws, the whole nine yards! Andy

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Summary: gimme a break!
Review: this isn't a book, it's a pamphlet! more info on the average website. iether add onto the book or don't waste my time. to think i waited for this book to arrive before i built my wall. to be fair, if it had a bit more info, it could be a good primer.